Artists – Australian World Orchestra

Cello

Jonathan Békés

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Estivo Trio; Former Principal Cellist – Australian Youth Orchestra; 2016 AWO Academy Player

David Berlin

Principal Cello – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia

Rohan de Korte

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Michael Goldschlager

Freelance; Former Principal Cello – West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australia

Molly Kadarauch

Sutherland Trio; University of Melbourne; Former Associate Principal Cello – Australian Chamber Orchestra

Mee Na Lojewski

Founding Cellist – Affinity Quartet; Freelance Cellist – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sydney Chamber Opera; Victorian Opera

Peter Morrison

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Patrick Murphy

Lecturer in Cello – University of Queensland

Julian Thompson

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Michelle Wood

Cello – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Tinalley String Quartet; Co-Artistic Director – Concerts Sans Frontières

Double Bass

Timothy (Tim) Dunin

Professor of Double Bass – University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz; Formerly Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Damien Eckersley

Associate Principal Bass – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Head of Double Bass – Australian National Academy of Music; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Max McBride

Former Principal Double Bass – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Co-Principal Double Bass – Sydney Symphony; Vienna State Opera; Senior Lecturer – Australian National University School of Music, Canberra

Robert Nairn

Master Musician in Residence – Elder Conservatorium; Former Professor of Double Bass – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music; Former Faculty Member – Juilliard School of Music, New York

Phoebe Russell

Principal Double Bass – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Sinclair

Principal Double Bass – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Former Double Bass – Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Ciro Vigilante

Principal Double Bass – Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Dušan Walkowicz

Associate Principal – Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Viola

Robert Ashworth

Principal Viola – Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand

Lauren Brigden

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Alex Brogan

Associate Principal Viola – West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australia

Sally Clarke

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Andra Darzins

Professor of Viola – University of Music, Stuttgart; Guest Principal – Staatskapelle Berlin, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Elbphilharmonie Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra.

Juris Ezergailis

Former Section Leader Violas – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Stefanie Farrands

Principal Viola – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Sergio Insuasti

Principal Viola – Sydney Youth Orchestra; 2019 AWO Academy Player, Student Royal College of Music London

Andrew Jezek

Principal Viola – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Freelance Principal Viola – Opera Australia Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Klangforum, Vienna

Tahlia Petrosian

Director – KLASSIK Underground; Violist – Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig

Andra Ulrichs-Kreder

Basel Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Festival Strings Lucerne

Elizabeth Woolnough

Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia

Violin

Warwick Adeney

Concertmaster – Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Australia

Jonathan Allen

1st Violin – Philharmonia Zurich, Switzerland; La Sctintilla Ensemble; Founder and Leader – Ensemble Il Trittico, Switzerland

Lucas Barr

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Germany

Margaret Blades

Former Concertmaster – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra , Australia

Michael Brooks-Reid

2nd Violin – Camerata Bern; Guest performer – Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; German Radio Philharmonic; Aurora Orchestra; Camerata Bern; Kammerakademie Potsdam; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra

Lucy Carrig

Principal 2nd Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Rebecca Chan

Associate Leader Violin – Philharmonia Orchestra, England

Natalie Chee

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

Heather Cottrell

Deputy Concertmaster – Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Lecturer in Orchestral Studies – Musikhochschule, Wuppertal; Former Principal 2nd Violin – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Germany

Monica Curro

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

Daniel Dodds

Artistic Director and Leader – Festival Strings Lucerne

Stanley Dodds

Conductor – AWO 2016; Principal Conductor – Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Conductor – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Violin – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Madeleine Easton

Artistic Director – Bach Akademie Australia; Freelance Violinist – London/Europe

Paul Ezergailis

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

Simon Fordham

Principal 2nd Violin – Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

Emily Francis

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

Anne Harvey-Nagl

Concertmaster – Volksoper Vienna; Koehne Quartet, Vienna

Simon James

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

Naoko Keatley (Miyamoto)

Second Violin – London Symphony Orchestra

Joanna Lewis

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

Katherine Lukey

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

Jane Piper

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam

Patrick Savage

Leader – Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra; 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

Wilma Smith

Wilma Smith and Friends; Artistic Director – Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition; Former Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Claire Sterling

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

Matthew Tomkins

Principal 2nd Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Miki Tsunoda

Principal 2nd Violin – Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Melinda Watzel

Principal 2nd Violin – Komische Oper Berlin

Bassoon

Brock Imison

Principal Contrabassoon – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

David Mitchell

Associate Principal Bassoon – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Lecturer in Bassoon – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

Lyndon Watts

Freelance; Professor of Bassoon – Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne; Former Principal Bassoon – Munich Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Professor of Bassoon – Berne University of the Arts

Clarinet

Philip Arkinstall

Associate Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia; Former Principal – Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Paul Champion

Principal Clarinet – Orchestra Victoria

Cor Anglais

Rixon Thomas

Principal Cor Anglais – Opera Australia Orchestra; Soloist – Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Denmark

Flute

Alison Mitchell

Principal Flute – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Flute – Scottish Chamber Orchestra, UK

Lisa Osmialowski (Lewis)

Guest Principal Flute – Opera Australia Orchestra; Guest Principal Piccolo – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Oboe

Joshua de Graaf

Associate Principal Oboe – Orchestra Victoria

Nick Deutsch

AWO International Advisor; Professor of Oboe – Hochschule für Musik & Theatre, Leipzig; Former Artistic Director – Australian National Academy of Music

Piccolo

Linda Stuckey

Principal Piccolo – Hong Kong Philharmonic

Saxophone

Christina Leonard

Freelance – Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; Artistic Director – Classic Stomp and AWO Chamber Music Festival, NSW Southern Highlands

Horn

Lin Jiang

Principal Horn – Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Saul Lewis

Principal 3rd Horn – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Emily Newham

Fellow – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; 2019 AWO Academy Player

Casey Rippon

Bayerische Staatsoper; Lecturer Horn – University of Augsburg

Gabrielle Webster

Freelance;  Grand Teton Music Festival, USA

Trombone

Timothy Dowling

Prinicipal Trombone – Residentie Orchestra (The Hague Philharmonic)

Michael Mulcahy

Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Director – CSO Brass; Professor of Trombone – Northwestern University; Chicago Chamber Musicians; Visiting Artist ANAM

Shannon Pittaway

Principal Bass Trombone – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Head of Winds and Brass – New Zealand School of Music; Australian Brass Quintet; Former – Singapore Symphony Orchestra