Cello

Jonathan Békés
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Estivo Trio; Former Principal Cellist – Australian Youth Orchestra; 2016 AWO Academy Player
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Michael Goldschlager
Freelance; Former Principal Cello – West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Australia
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Molly Kadarauch
Sutherland Trio; University of Melbourne; Former Associate Principal Cello – Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Mee Na Lojewski
Founding Cellist – Affinity Quartet; Freelance Cellist – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sydney Chamber Opera; Victorian Opera
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Michelle Wood
Cello – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Tinalley String Quartet; Co-Artistic Director – Concerts Sans Frontières
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Timothy (Tim) Dunin
Professor of Double Bass – University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz; Formerly Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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Damien Eckersley
Associate Principal Bass – New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Head of Double Bass – Australian National Academy of Music; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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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
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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
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Andrew Sinclair
Principal Double Bass – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Former Double Bass – Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Viola

Andra Darzins
Professor of Viola – University of Music, Stuttgart; Guest Principal – Staatskapelle Berlin, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Elbphilharmonie Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Stefanie Farrands
Principal Viola – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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Sergio Insuasti
Principal Viola – Sydney Youth Orchestra; 2019 AWO Academy Player, Student Royal College of Music London
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Andrew Jezek
Principal Viola – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Freelance Principal Viola – Opera Australia Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Klangforum, Vienna
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Tahlia Petrosian
Director – KLASSIK Underground; Violist – Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig
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Andra Ulrichs-Kreder
Basel Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Festival Strings Lucerne
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Elizabeth Woolnough
Australian Chamber Orchestra; Former – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia
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Jonathan Allen
1st Violin – Philharmonia Zurich, Switzerland; La Sctintilla Ensemble; Founder and Leader – Ensemble Il Trittico, Switzerland
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Margaret Blades
Former Concertmaster – Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra , Australia
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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
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Natalie Chee
Concertmaster – Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; Former 1st Concertmaster – SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
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Heather Cottrell
Deputy Concertmaster – Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Lecturer in Orchestral Studies – Musikhochschule, Wuppertal; Former Principal 2nd Violin – Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Germany
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Monica Curro
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Co-Artistic Director – Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
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Stanley Dodds
Conductor – AWO 2016; Principal Conductor – Berlin Symphony Orchestra; Conductor – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Violin – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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Madeleine Easton
Artistic Director – Bach Akademie Australia; Freelance Violinist – London/Europe
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Marina Gillam
Freelance – Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Concert Orchestra, London; Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne; Former – City of Birmingham City Symphony Orchestra
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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
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Joanna Lewis
1st Violin – Koehne Quartet, Vienna; Guest Violinist – Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kangforum & Philharmonia, Vienna
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Katherine Lukey
Deputy Concertmaster – Opera Australia Orchestra; Former Assistant Concertmaster – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal 1st Violin – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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Patrick Savage
Leader – Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra; Freelance – concertmaster and film composer; Former Principal First Violin – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Leader – Tippett Quartet

Wilma Smith
Wilma Smith and Friends; Artistic Director – Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition; Former Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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Claire Sterling
Co-Principal Second Violin – English National Opera; Former Principal Second Violin – Scottish Chamber Orchestra
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David Mitchell
Associate Principal Bassoon – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Lecturer in Bassoon – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University
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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
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Philip Arkinstall
Associate Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia; Former Principal – Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
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Rixon Thomas
Principal Cor Anglais – Opera Australia Orchestra; Soloist – Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Denmark
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Alison Mitchell
Principal Flute – Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Flute – Scottish Chamber Orchestra, UK
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Lisa Osmialowski (Lewis)
Guest Principal Flute – Opera Australia Orchestra; Guest Principal Piccolo – Sydney Symphony Orchestra
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Nick Deutsch
AWO International Advisor; Professor of Oboe – Hochschule für Musik & Theatre, Leipzig; Former Artistic Director – Australian National Academy of Music
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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
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Trombone

Michael Mulcahy
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Director – CSO Brass; Professor of Trombone – Northwestern University; Chicago Chamber Musicians; Visiting Artist ANAM
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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
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Owen Morris
Principal Trumpet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former – Sydney Youth Orchestra
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Harp
Organ

Stefan Cassomenos
Pianist, Composer – PLEXUS, Artistic Director – Port Fairy Spring Music Festival
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David Montgomery
Percussion Lecturer – Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Director – Isorhythmos Percussion
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Antoine (Tony) Bedewi
Principal Timpani – BBC Symphony Orchestra; Former Co-Principal Timpanist – London Symphony Orchestra, England
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