Expertise Archives: 2000 - 2009
2000 - 2009
David Papp
Winner, Other Instruments Category, 2009 David Papp learned piano and oboe as a child and studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music High School, attaining the LMusA in both instruments in 2001 at the age of 17. After completing his HSC in 2002, he decided to focus on the oboe and make it his principal [...]
Bo An Lu
Winner, Keyboard Category 2009 Bo An Lu is 15 years old and currently in Year 12 at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth. He has been playing the piano from the age of seven and also plays violin. Recent appearances include performances at Government House (WA) Ballroom and St George’s Cathedral, and in 2007 he [...]
Reuben Blundell
Participant: 2001, 2002, 2008 Reuben Blundell began formal conducting studies in 2006, pursuing a DMA at the Eastman School of Music with Professor Neil Varon. Immediately following his residency, Reuben Blundell began a position at Millersville University in PA, and has directed the Hunter Symphony, at Hunter College in Manhattan’s Upper East Side since August 2009. [...]
Jessica Foot
Winner, Other Instruments Category 2008 Jessica Foot began playing oboe at the age of 10, under the tutorage of Sue Taylor. She continued her studies with Anne Gilby, and with Eve Newsome whilst completing a Bachelor of Music Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004. During this time Jessica was awarded the [...]
Rebecca Chan
Winner String Category 2008 Rebecca Chan has performed in many different chamber music, solo and orchestral settings around Australia and overseas. She has been a soloist with many major orchestras around Australia, including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra with [...]
Paul Fitzsimon
Participant: 2003 – 2007 Paul Fitzsimon graduated from the University of Melbourne where he completed a Bachelor of Music majoring in piano performance under Stephen McIntyre. In 2008/09 he was the Assistant Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and was the winner of the 2008 Brian Stacey Award for emerging Australian conductors. From 2003 until [...]
Shaun Lee-Chen
Young Performer of the Year 2007 Shaun Lee-Chen is currently a member of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Shaun completed his Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the University of Western Australia in 2000 with first class Honours, studying under Paul Wright and Pal Eder. He was the most outstanding graduate for music at the University of [...]
Tristram Williams
Winner Other Instruments Category 2007 Tristram Williams maintains a busy international career as a leading young soloist, ensemble musician, improvisor and educator. He has appeared as a soloist in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Britain, USA, Japan, China and many times around Australia, with orchestras such as the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Het Brabants Orkest, the Queensland [...]
Shefali Pryor
Winner, Other Instruments category 2006 Shefali Pryor currently holds the position of Associate Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Shefali grew up in Sydney where she graduated with first class honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. During her studies she participated in numerous programs with the Australian Youth Orchestra and was a member of [...]
Brieley Cutting
Winner, Keyboard category 2006 Australian pianist Brieley Cutting has been described as “a pianist who has at her disposal a myriad of different colours and who knows how to take the time to let the music speak” (Scoop Independent News, New Zealand), as having “technical expertise” (The Age, Melbourne, Australia), and as being “a concert [...]
Cameron Hill
Young Performer of the Year 2006 Cameron is a Melbourne-based violinist who performs regularly as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. In 2006 he graduated from the University of Melbourne studying with William Hennessy (1999-2005), completing the Bachelor of Music with Honours and topping the year. More recently he has completed three years at the [...]
Mark Gaydon
Winner, Other Instruments category 2005 Four years after taking up the bassoon at the age of 18, Mark Gaydon graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music degree with first class honours and the University Medal. In the same year, he performed Elgar’s Romance for bassoon as soloist with the Queensland Pops Orchestra, [...]
Ollivier-Philippe Cuneo
Participant: 2000 – 2005 Ollivier-Philippe Cuneo studied violin and conducting in Australia, France and the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Music (with first-class honours) from the University of Western Australia and a Masters in Performance from Indiana University in Bloomington. He participated in Symphony Australia’s conductor development program from 2000 until 2005. In [...]
Chen Gu
Winner, String category 2004 and Nelly Apt Scholarship Chen Gu was born in Shanghai and began playing the violin at the age of four. In 1986, he won the first prize in the junior section of the Shanghai Music Competition, afterwards giving his first public performance. In 1993 he was a prize winner at the [...]
Amy Dickson
2004 Young Performer of the Year Saxophonist Amy Dickson began lessons at the age of six and made her concerto debut ten years later. Recognized widely for her remarkable and distinctive tone and exceptional musicality, she has performed in Europe, Africa and Australasia, in venues such as the Wigmore Hall and the Sydney Opera House. [...]
Olivia Sham
Winner, Keyboard category 2003 Australian pianist Olivia Sham is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Olivia completed a Bachelor of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The University of Sydney) on a scholarship of Outstanding Academic Achievement/Merit, where she studied with Elizabeth Powell, and graduated with First Class Honours and [...]
Nicole Vasilakis
Winner, String category 2003 and Nelly Apt Scholarship Nicole Vasilakis commenced her studies at the Elder Conservatorium at the age of 12 with Beryl Kimber and went on to win the Elder Conservatorium Concerto Competition and the Adelaide Eisteddfod Senior and Junior concerto competitions at the age of 15. She has performed violin concertos with various orchestras [...]
Richard Haynes
Young Performer of the Year 2003 Richard Haynes is a performer/composer completing the third year of Intensive Cross-Studies at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music under the guidance of Brian Catchlove (clarinet) and Diana Tolmie (bass clarinet). He is Principal Bass Clarinet of the Queensland Youth Symphony and has been a member of the organisation for [...]
Edward Neeman
Winner, Keyboard category 2003 and David Paul Landa Scholarship The Australian-American pianist Edward Neeman is a fresh new voice on the contemporary piano scene. He has won first prizes in the Rodrigo International Piano Competition, the Carlet International Piano Competition, and the Kawai Australasian Concerto Competition among others, and was the piano finalist in the [...]
Matthew Wood
Participant: 2000 – 2003 Matthew Wood currently holds the position of Associate Conductor with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has worked throughout the UK, Australia and Europe. His 09/10 season includes debuts with The Philharmonia at the Barbican and the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Chile in Santiago. He will return to the RTE National Orchestra [...]
Benjamin Northey
Participant 2001 Nelly Apt scholarship 2001 Australian born conductor Benjamin Northey graduated with first class honours in performance and later a Masters degree in conducting from the University of Melbourne in 2000 where he commenced conducting studies under John Hopkins. In 2001 he undertook ten weeks of intensive daily study with Finnish maestro Jorma Panula [...]
Luke Dollman
Nelly Apt Scholarship 1998 Young Conductor of the Year 2000 Participant: 1998 – 2000 Luke Dollman began his musical life as a violinist, performing with many Australian orchestras on both modern and baroque violin. After deciding to focus on conducting, he furthered his studies at the renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki gaining a Masters of [...]
Ji Won Kim
Young Performer of the Year 2009 Ji Won Kim has won awards in various international and national competitions in Europe and Australia. Her musical studies began at the age of four. She attended the Arts school in Seoul and Melbourne before continuing her studies in Europe and obtaining a Bachelor of Music with high distinction [...]