Violin

Benjamin Roskams

IMP; Guest Principal Viola – BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Guest Concertmaster – Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Germany; Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Germany

Warwick Adeney

Former Concertmaster – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Allen

1st Violin – Orchester der Oper Zürich; La Sctintilla; Founder and Leader – Ensemble Il Trittico, Switzerland; Jewel Ensemble, Switzerland

Sara Barbagallo

2023 AWO Academy Player; Concertmaster – The University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Australian Youth Orchestra; Former Emerging Artist – Mimir Chamber Music Festival 2022

Dale Barltrop

Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; First Violin – Australian String Quartet; Former Concertmaster – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Lucas Barr

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Germany

Emily Beauchamp

2nd Violin — Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; 2022 AWO Academy Player

Harry Bennetts

Associate Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Zoe Black

Freelance Violin & Concertmaster; Faculty – Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM); Former – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Freshwater Trio

Margaret Blades

Co-Artistic Director – Southern Cross Soloists; Creative Director of Music – Bond University; Former Associate Concertmaster – Western Australia Symphony Orchestra; Former Concertmaster – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Michael Brooks-Reid

Regular Leader/Director – Camerata Bern; Guest Member – Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Orchestra Mozart; Former – Hamer Quartet

Lucy Carrig

Principal 2nd Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Rebecca Chan

Associate Leader Violin – Philharmonia Orchestra, England; Piatti Quartet; Former – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra

Natalie Chee

1st Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former 1st Concertmaster – Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; 1st Concertmaster – SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart; Camerata Salzburg

Brielle Clapson

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Peter Clark

Associate Concertmaster – Orchestra Wellington; New Zealand String Quartet; Former Principal Violin – Omega Ensemble; Australian Chamber Orchestra

Myee Clohessy

Acacia Quartet; Former Assistant Concertmaster – Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norway; Violin – Swedish Chamber Orchestra; London Festival Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra

Heather Cottrell

Acting Deputy Concertmaster – Staatskapelle Berlin; Former Principal 2nd Violin – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Monica Curro

Assistant Principal 2nd Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Co-Artistic Director – Port Fairy Spring Music Festival

Sercan Danis

Associate Concertmaster –Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Neela de Fonseka

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Lerida Delbridge

Assistant Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Daniel Dodds

Artistic Director and Leader – Festival Strings Lucerne

Kyli Dodds

Deputy Concertmaster – Thüringer Symphoniker, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt; Member of Argonautica

Stanley Dodds

Chief Conductor and Artistic Director – Cavatina Philharmonic Orchestra; Chief Conductor – Sydney Youth Orchestra; Violin – Berlin Philharmonic; Former Principal Conductor – Berlin Symphony Orchestra

Madeleine Easton

Artistic Director – Bach Akademie Australia; Freelance Violinist – London/Europe; Former Concertmaster – The Hanover Band

Paul Ezergailis

Violin Co-Leader – Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Luminosa, Galway

Phoebe Fan

AWO Academy Player 2026

Simon Fordham

Principal 2nd Violin – Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Emily Francis

Pedagogue; Former – BBC Symphony Orchestra

Marina Gillam

Freelance – Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Concert Orchestra, London; Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; Former – City of Birmingham City Symphony Orchestra

Joanne Green

Scottish Ensemble; Former Subprincipal – Northern Sinfonia; Guest Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra

William Grigg

Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne

Dimity Hall

Goldner String Quartet; Australia Ensemble, University of New South Wales

Anne Harvey-Nagl

Concertmaster – Volksoper Vienna; Koehne Quartet, Vienna

Kirsty Hilton

Principal 2nd Violin – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Sola Hughes

AWO Academy Player 2025

Vaughan Hughes

Ensemble Kanazawa

William Huxtable

Founding Member – Partridge String Quartet

Marlene Ito

Principal Leader of 2nd Violins — Berliner Philharmoniker; Pangaea Trio Berlin

Simon James

Chair of Strings — San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Violin Professor – San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Teacher – Coleman Violin Studio; Former Second Assistant Concertmaster – Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Former Concertmaster – Seattle Chamber Orchestra

Graeme Jennings

Senior Lecturer in Violin – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University; Violin – Elision Ensemble; Former Violin – Arditti String Quartet, London

Emma Jezek

Assistant Principal 2nd Violin – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Roger Jonsson

Principal 2nd violin – Orchestra Victoria

Naoko Keatley (Miyamoto)

Second Violin – London Symphony Orchestra

Erica Kennedy

Associate Principal First Violin — Orchestra Victoria; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Former Founding First Violin — Flinders Quartet; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Teaching Associate: Monash University

Brenda Koh

2016 AWO Academy Player (Singapore)

Gemma Lee

Royal Concertgebouw; Former – NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hannover; Gewandhausorchester, Leipzig; Fellow – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra

Semra Lee-Smith

A/Associate Concertmaster – West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Joanna Lewis

1st Violin – Koehne Quartet, Vienna; Guest Violinist – Radio Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum & Philharmonia, Vienna

Maria Lindsay

Soloist; Co-Artistic Director & Leader – Lurline Chamber Orchestra; Former – Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Katherine Lukey

Deputy Concertmaster – Opera Australia Orchestra; Former Assistant Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal 1st Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Marina Marsden

Principal 2nd Violin – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Belinda McFarlane

Youth Education Programme Advisor; Director – London Symphony Orchestra; 2nd Violin – London Symphony Orchestra; Fiorini piano trio

Emma McGrath

Concertmaster – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Former Assistant Concertmaster – Colorado Symphony Orchestra; Former Associate Concertmaster – Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Former – Panormo Quartet; Starling Quartet

Anna McMichael

Classical Convenor and Head of Strings – Monash University; Former – Co-Artistic Director – Tyalgum Music Festival; Violin – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Amsterdam Sinfonietta; London Sinfonietta

Marcus Michelsen

2021 AWO Academy Player; Sydney Symphony Fellow 2023; Violin – Tarsus Chamber Collective; Former Violin – Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO); Former Concertmaster – Sydney Youth Orchestra

Simon Monger

Concertmaster – Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra

Sagar Nagaraj

Concertmaster – Australian Indian Orchestra; Artistic Director & Concertmaster – Rosemont Chamber Orchestra; Macquarie Chamber Orchestra; Former – Willoughby Symphony Orchestra; AWO Academy Player 2018

Monica Naselow

Principal 2nd Violin – Orchestra Victoria; Australian Ballet; Former Concertmaster and Education/Outreach Officer – Darwin Symphony Orchestra; Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; 2nd Violin – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Kana Ohashi

Associate Concertmaster – Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig; Former Director – Manchester Cosmos Strings

Alexandra Osborne

Associate Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Jackson Hole Chamber Music Ensemble; Former First Violin – The National Symphony Orchestra, USA

Jennifer Owen

Principal 1st Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal 2nd Violin – Houston Symphony Orchestra

Liisa Pallandi

Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former – Britten-Pears Orchestra, Aldeburgh; 2011 AWO Academy Player

Susie Park

First Associate Concertmaster – Minnesota Orchestra; East Coast Chamber Orchestra; First Violinist – Enso String Quartet; Former Soloist – Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London; Former Violinist – Eroica Trio

Thibaud Pavlovic-Hobba

Flinders Quartet; ACO Quartet

Jane Piper

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Alison Rayner

IMP; Former – Fragaria Vera Ensemble; Norwegian Chamber Orchestra; First Violin – Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Associate Principal Second Violin – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Alice Rickards

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Australian Haydn Ensemble; Dunedin Consort; Sequoia Duo

Sophie Rowell

Artistic Director – Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Associate Professor – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Former Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Michelle Ruffolo

1st Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Joanne (Jo) Sadler

Patrick Savage

Freelance – concertmaster and film composer; Former Principal First Violin – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Leader – Tippett Quartet

Elizabeth Sellars

Sutherland Trio; Former – Co-ordinator of Strings, Monash University

Rachel Smith

Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Artistic Director – Stradbroke Chamber Music Festival; Staff – St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh; Former Staff – Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Macgregor Summer School; Southern Cross Soloists Winter School; Edinburgh Music School; Former Principal 1st Violin – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Wilma Smith

Wilma & Friends; Second Violin - Flinders Quartet; Artistic Director of Competitions - Musica Viva Australia; Co-Artistic Director – Martinborough Music Festival; Former Concertmaster - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Founding First Violin - Lydian Quartet & New Zealand String Quartet

Ben Spiers

Tutti — Orchestra Victoria

Claire Sterling

Co-Principal Second Violin – English National Opera; Former Principal Second Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Scott Stiles

1st Violin – Mozarteum Orchester, Salzburg; Former – Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Emily Su

IMP; Guest First Violin — Affinity Quartet; Former Concertmaster — Royal Academy Chamber Orchestra; Australian Chamber Orchestra Emerging Artist 2022

Kate Suthers

Concertmaster – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Former – Aurora Orchestra; Former – Scottish Ensemble; Former Section Leader 2nd Violin – City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Former – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sandra Tancibudek

Staatskapelle Berlin; WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne

Matthew Tomkins

Principal 2nd Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Miki Tsunoda

Principal 2nd Violin – Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Marie-Danielle Turner

Associate Leader 2nd Violin – Belgian National Orchestra

Harry Ward

First Violin – Berliner Philharmoniker; Former Karajan Academy – Berliner Philharmoniker; Rathdowne Quartet; Former Emerging Artist – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Futuremaker Artist – Musica Viva

Melinda Watzel

Principal 2nd Violin – Komische Oper Berlin; Deutsche Kammerorchester

Robin Wilson

Professor of Violin – Royal Academy of Music; Former Head of Violin – Australian National Academy of Music

Asmira Woodward-Page

IMP; Former Concertmaster – String Orchestra of New York City; Momenta Quartet

Noam Yaffe

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Natsuko Yoshimoto

Co-Concertmaster – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Ensemble Q; Staff – Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Former Concertmaster – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Former Leader – Australian String Quartet; Grainger Quartet