Artists – Australian World Orchestra

Cello

Rowena Hamimill

Associate Principal Cello – Los Angeles Opera Orchestra

Catherine Hewgill

Principal Cello – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former – Australian Chamber Orchestra; The Australian Trio

Matthew Hoy

Former Cello – West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Former Artistic Program Manager – The Australian National Academy of Music

Matthew Lee

Sub-Principal Cello, BBC Concert Orchestra

Peter Morrison

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Patrick Murphy

Lecturer in Cello – University of Queensland

Timothy Nankervis

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Martin Penicka

Cello – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Howard Penny

Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Head of Strings – Australian National Academy of Music

Adam Szabo

Principal Cello No. 2 – Welsh National Opera; Associate Principal Cello No. 4 – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Ulster Orchestra; Former Cello – Australian Youth Orchestra; 2011 AWO Academy Player

Michael Williams

Principal Cello – Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Principal – Volksoper Vienna; Former Associate Principal – Australian Chamber Orchestra

Double Bass

Kees Boersma

Principal Double Bass – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Timothy (Tim) Dunin

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

Alex Henery

Principal Double Bass – Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Former Co-Principal – Philharmonia, London

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

Kirsty McCahon

Former Principal Double Bass – Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Matthew McDonald

Principal Double Bass – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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

Ciro Vigilante

Principal Double Bass – Vienna Chamber Orchestra

Viola

Sally Clarke

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart

Rosemary Curtin

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Brett Dean

Composer in Residence – BBC Symphony Orchestra; AWO Composer; Former Viola – Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Artist in Residence – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Lisa Grosman

Head of Strings – Camberwell Grammar School; Melbourne Conservatorium Young Artists Academy, University of Melbourne; Formerly – Irish Chamber Orchestra; Formerly – Director of the Viola Programme –Monash University

Andrew Jezek

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

Matthew Laing

Principal Viola – Australian Youth Orchestra; 2011 AWO Academy Player

Angela Lindsay

Co-Artistic Director and Principal Viola – Lurline Chamber Orchestra; Guest – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former – Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Welsh National Opera; City of Oxford Orchestra

Christopher Moore

Principal Viola – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Simon Oswell

Former Principal Viola – Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; Capitol Ensemble, Los Angeles; Hollywood Recording Artist

Janet Rutherford

Former Principal Viola – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Fiona Sargeant

Associate Principal Viola – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Andra Ulrichs-Kreder

Basel Symphony Orchestra; Former Principal Viola – Festival Strings Lucerne

Violin

Dale Barltrop

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

Lucas Barr

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Germany

Lucy Carrig

Principal 2nd Violin – Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Natalie Chee

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

Brielle Clapson

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Heather Cottrell

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

Stanley Dodds

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

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

Joanne Green

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

Anne Harvey-Nagl

Concertmaster – Volksoper Vienna; Koehne Quartet, Vienna

Kirsty Hilton

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

Vaughan Hughes

Violin – Ensemble Kanazawa, Japan

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

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

Naoko Keatley (Miyamoto)

Second Violin – London Symphony Orchestra

Joanna Lewis

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

Maria Lindsay

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

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 – London Symphony Orchestra; 2nd Violin – London Symphony Orchestra

Anna McMichael

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

Simon Monger

Concertmaster – Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra

Liisa Pallandi

Violin – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Britten-Pears Orchestra, Aldeburgh; Australian Youth Orchestra; 2011 AWO Academy Player

Sophie Rowell

Concertmaster – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Claire Sterling

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

Marie-Danielle Turner

Assistant Principal 2nd Violin – National Orchestra of Belgium

Melinda Watzel

Principal 2nd Violin – Komische Oper Berlin

Asmira Woodward-Page

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

Bassoon

Brock Imison

Principal Contrabassoon – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Matthew Ockenden

Associate Principal Bassoon – Opera Australia Orchestra; Bassoon (casual) – Australian Chamber Orchestra

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

Francesco (Frank) Celata

Associate Principal Clarinet – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Paul Dean

Head of Winds at Queensland Conservatorium; Composer in Residence – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, 2019; Artistic Director – Four Winds Festival and Tutti Beijing International Youth Music Festival

Susan Newsome

Lecturer Clarinet – Sydney Conservatorium of Music & Sydney University

Richard Rourke

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Clarinet (casual) – Australian Chamber Orchestra

David Thomas

Principal Clarinet – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Co-ordinator of
Woodwind – Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne

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

Emma Sholl

Associate Principal Flute – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Meg Sterling

Principal Flute – Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Oboe

Nick Deutsch

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

Diana Doherty

Principal Oboe – Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Piccolo

Linda Stuckey

Principal Piccolo – Hong Kong Philharmonic

Horn

Andrew Bain

Principal Horn – Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Former Principal Horn – Colorado Music Festival; Horn Professor – Colburn School Conservatory of Music; Principal Horn – Mainly Mozart Festival, San Diego; Former Principal Horn – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony; Münchner Symphoniker

Peter Luff

Senior Lecturer French Horn – Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

Hector McDonald

Former Principal Horn – Vienna Symphony Orchestra & Concentus Musicus Wien; Professor of Horn – University of Music & Performing Arts, Graz

Casey Rippon

Bayerische Staatsoper; Lecturer Horn – University of Augsburg

Gabrielle Webster

Freelance;  Grand Teton Music Festival, USA

Trombone

Michael Bertoncello

Former Trombone – Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Former Solo Trombone – Tonhalle Orchester, Zürich

Damien Lingard

Associate Principle Trombone – Munich Radio Orchestra; Former – Queensland Youth Symphony; Stuttgart Philharmonic

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