Joshua began his studies at Chetham’s with Gitte Marcusson, Richard Davis and Katherine Baker, during which he became Principal Flute of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He was awarded a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Michael Cox completing his BMus in 2014. While a student of the school Joshua spent a year studying with Jacques Zoon at the Haute Ecole de Musique Genève where he also became principal flute of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.

Owner and Chief Technician at BLOW Woodwind and Brass, Andy Berrington studied Saxophone, Clarinet and Flute in Adelaide, and became fascinated by the technical side of musical instruments, particularly the flute. He trained as a woodwind instrument maker in Germany for 5 years and worked for Trevor J James in London and John Lehner flutes in Sydney before starting For Winds in 1991 becoming one of Australia’s foremost woodwind authorities.

Andy has spent considerable time in many of the most prestigious instrument making factories around the world learning the skills from the source!

Jane Bolinowsky studied under many of the leading exponents of her art — including Vernon Hill, Margaret Crawford and Thomas Pinschof in Australia and William Bennett and Severino Gazelloni in the UK and Italy.

Jane performs as a soloist and chamber musician in recitals and at ceremonies and corporate functions. Her collaboration with organist Amy Johansen led to performances in the UK, France, Spain, Switzerland and at many locations throughout Sydney.

She was a founding member of the Hills Chamber Ensemble — a group which continues to explore and present the repertoire for flute, strings, keyboard and voice, as well as creating their own arrangements and commissioning original works.

Jane is an experienced teacher whose approach embraces the physical, mental and emotional aspects of music making. She specialises in preparing students for the HSC, for scholarships and tertiary entrance auditions and Diploma level examinations.

She has been teaching at PLC since 1987 and has taught graduate and post graduate students at the University of Southern Queensland, Sydney Conservatorium, UNSW and AIM.

She has private studios on the North Shore and in the Hills District of Sydney, Australia.

Abigail Burrows leads a varied freelance career working as a soloist, orchestral, chamber and pit musician, as well as running courses, outreach programmes, leading masterclasses, innovative educational projects and workshops around the world. She is the flute teacher at The Purcell School of Music in London and is currently performing on the UK & Ireland Tour of Les Misèrables.

As a soloist, she has appeared at most major London venues and performed extensively throughout Europe, Africa and the U.S.  She freelances for several orchestras and west-end musicals and has held chairs on shows including Pinocchio, Fiddler on the Roof, Flowers for Mrs Harris and the UK & Ireland Tours of Wicked and The King and I. She has worked in many of London's recording studios, appeared on film and television, and has performed at music festivals including Latitude and Glastonbury.

A passionate teacher, she has been a guest artist at numerous flute festivals and courses. Her creative (and unorthodox!) teaching style has earned her an international reputation, with several of her innovative and inspirational workshops being scheduled in events across the UK, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, Holland, America, Hong Kong and Australia.

Abbie is a Haynes Artist and lives in London with her husband and fellow flautist, Gareth McLearnon.

Dr Jeanell Carrigan is currently an Associate Professor in the Collaborative Piano Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.  She has performed throughout Australia and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative duo partner. Her area of research is Australian solo piano repertoire and more recently in the piano music composed by early 20th Century Australian women composers. In December 2018, she released her nineteenth CD of solo Australian piano and chamber works and her publications include several books, most recently, Composing against the Tide and fifteen critical editions of piano and chamber music written by Australian women.

Edison is a renowned Brazilian Woodwind Repair Technician specialising in handmade flutes and professional clarinets. He has been repairing and playing the flute for more than 15 years and studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música 'Manuel de Falla' in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

He has attended several international courses on advanced tuning; gold, silver and bronze welding; lathe operation; wood restoration techniques; and crafting woodwind instrument parts. With his extensive training, Edison is an expert in flute and clarinet key/parts customisation and fine gold/silver welding. He has performed modifications on a vast number of instruments used by international artists for the purposes of improving intonation and adding alternative key systems.

With more than 16 years of experience working in Latin America, New Zealand and now at Flutes & Flutists, Australia, Edison has worked alongside musicians from the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, West Australia Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and numerous other prominent jazz and classical musicians.

Adelaide-born Margaret Crawford played piano and composed from the age of nine. At fifteen she began flute lessons with David Cubbin at the Elder Conservatorium and then moved to Melbourne in 1960 to undertake a tertiary degree at the Melbourne University Conservatorium, studying flute under Leslie Barklamb and piano under Ronald Farren-Price. In 1963 she gained her BMus and two years later a Master of Music majoring in flute performance.

In 1966 she won the ABC Concerto Competition (now Young Performer of the Year), which led to solo performances with all of the State Symphony Orchestras and numerous broadcasts. A major focus for her at this time was the performance of contemporary music. In 1967 she travelled to Vienna where she specialized in baroque music, studying recorder under Professor Hans-Maria Kneihs and flute under Hans Reznicek at the Vienna Academy of Music, graduating with honours in 1969. She also studied flute in Paris under Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion and attended masterclasses given by Rampal, Gazzeloni, Gerard Schaub and Marcel Moyse.

Since returning to Australia in 1970 Margaret Crawford has taught flute at the Canberra School of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium, the Queensland Conservatorium, the Melbourne University Conservatorium, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music. From 1990 to mid-1997 she held the position of Head of Woodwind, Brass and Percussion at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Returning to Australia, she held the position of Senior Lecturer in Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium from 1998 to 2003. She moved back to Melbourne at the end of 2003.

Margaret Crawford has presented masterclasses and lectures on a wide range of musical and flute-related subjects. As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician she has toured Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and South East Asia. She has broadcast extensively in Australia and recorded a number of works by Australian composers. Margaret Crawford teaches at the VCA and at the Music Faculty of Melbourne University and is Artist in Residence at the Australian National Academy of Music. 

Catherine Davis was educated at the Conservatorium High in Sydney and the Royal Academy of Music, London, where she won all the major piano and accompaniment prizes culminating in the Recital Diploma.

Since returning to Australia, she took up fulltime lectureship at the University of Newcastle and, since 1999, has freelanced in Sydney where she is regularly employed by the Sydney Conservatorium, Cantillation Choir, Opera Australia Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Sydney Lyric Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony, Trackdown Scoring Stage in the capacity of both orchestral pianist/celeste/synth player and audition pianist.

Catherine has performed concerti with the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras on a number of occasions.  Recent highlights have been sharing the stage with violinists Julian Rachlin and Maxim Vengerov as well as the newly appointed Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, David Cooper.

2018 includes further work with ACO, Sydney Symphony and Sydney Conservatorium as well as recitals with her piano duo partner.

Christine studied at the Tasmanian Conservatorium, and with Zdenek Bruderhans at Adelaide University, graduating  with a Bachelor of Music (Honours).  She was a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1981-86 and has freelanced with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the AOBO and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. From 1982-2007 she was a member of  the contemporary music ensemble The Seymour Group. She has recorded three CDs of Australian flute music, Streeton’s noon (1999), Eat Chocolate and Cry (2009) and Spirit of the Plains (2013) all available through www.fluteworthy.com.au .  She has also made studio recordings for ABC Radio and Fine Music (2MBS) FM. Christine is a partner in Fluteworthy Publications; writing, arranging and editing educational flute music. She is a represented composer at the Australian Music Centre with works for solo flute, flute and piano, flute quartets, flute choir, woodwind quintet and theatre pieces. She is currently writing a concerto for flute and string orchestra for the Bourbaki Ensemble in Sydney, to be premiered in 2019.

Dr. Cobus du Toit is the Director of Artistic Planning at the Longy School School of Music and also serves as the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As an international soloist and chamber musician Cobus has concertized in Russia, Taiwan, Japan, Germany and France. Pretoria News declared:  “du Toit makes you believe the impossible. With du Toit in flight one is never aware of technique alone. He is driven by purely musical inspiration.”

Melbourne-born flautist Kim Falconer completed her Bachelor of Music degree with first-class honours in at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, before studying with Virginia Taylor at the Australian National Academy of Music. She holds her Licentiate Diploma with Distinction, for which she was awarded the Leslie Barklamb Flute Award. In 2015, Kim won First Prize in the Australian Flute Festival Open Competition, and was also awarded the prize for Best Performance of the Set Work – Paul Dean’s Falling Ever Deeper.

Kim moved to Sydney in 2017 to work full-time with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Fellowship program. Throughout the year, she gained experience playing in over 80 concerts with the orchestra, including some performances as Principal Flute and Principal Piccolo. Kim also was Principal Flute of the Australian Youth Orchestra in 2017.

Kim is a casual musician with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Opera Australia Orchestra, and has also worked with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Victorian Opera, Ensemble Q, Australian Conservatoire of Ballet Orchestra and the Melbourne Bach Orchestra.

Jocelyn Fazzone is a Sydney based flutist, pianist, educator and examiner. Jocelyn currently teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and UNSW, she is Woodwind Advisor/Chief Examiner and Federal Examiner with the AMEB NSW, and founding member of Windfall Sextet and Fluteworthy publications. She has received 12 AMEB awards to date for achieving the top annual student examination results in NSW. Jocelyn is a published author of flute music collections and teaching reference material, and has recorded a number of CDs featuring  Australia’s leading flutists.

Jocelyn is frequently featured as guest performer, master class teacher, lecturer & teaching mentor around Australia. She has recorded for Fine Music and ABC radio, and has worked as orchestral flutist with a number of major orchestras, including the SSO, AOBO, QSO & TSO. Her flute & piano studies for the degrees of MM, BMus, Virtuosite, LMusA, LTCL and AMusA, were under the renowned  masters  Maxence Larrieu, Bob Willoughby, David Cubbin & Nancy Salas in Sydney, Canberra, Switzerland & the USA.

Founded in 2018, Flutescents has embarked on their first story telling musical production – The Nutcracker, in August 2018. The production was a great success - all four shows sold out and received fabulous feedbacks. Since then, the ensemble has host and performed for Miyazawa Flute Fair & Concert in Malaysia; The Nutcracker Re-staged and other performances. This exciting ensemble is in quintet formation, which uses members of the flute family from piccolo to bass flute. All the players are professionally trained; they share the same passion towards making wonderful chamber music. Everyone in the group are dedicated, and there is great rapport and chemistry between them which brings their music to life. As a newly formed ensemble, they will continue to contribute and enhance the music scene in the years to come.

Keiko Nakagawa, Yong Ching Ting - Flute

Carmen Mah Jia Wen – Flute / Piccolo

Brian Choong – Flute / Alto Flute

Wong Poh Lee – Flute / Bass Flute

Since 2009 Fluteworthy have created an invaluable collection of sheet music, CDs and books for flute players. Lamorna, Jocelyn and Christine have used their combined experience as teachers, performers, composers and arrangers to publish music which is suitable for  Australian flute teachers and students. This includes music which can be used for HSC exams and AMEB exams. They have made two recordings of Australian flute music; ‘Eat Chocolate and Cry’ 2009 and 'Spirit of the Plains' 2013. Several new works were commissioned by Fluteworthy for inclusion in the CDs. Many other works were adapted in consultation with Australian composers to make them suitable for the NSW year 12 syllabus.

Jocelyn Fazzone teaches flute extensively, at the Sydney Conservatorium and in her private studio. She has won 10 teaching awards, is the Woodwind Advisor, Federal & senior examiner for the AMEB, and also loves to use her piano skills working as associate artist with leading flautists.

Lamorna Nightingale is a core member of the new music group - Ensemble Offspring and has been performing with them since 2007. She has appears regularly with some of Sydney's best orchestras and chamber groups. Lamorna has an active teaching studio and is a senior examiner for the AMEB. From 2012-14 Lamorna was the President of the Flute Society  of NSW.

Christine Draeger teaches students of all levels. She is a founding member of  Tucana Flute Quartet. She works regularly with pianist John Martin and particularly enjoys composing and arranging music for flute.

Maddilyn Goodwin is an Australian flutist and piccoloist based in Brisbane, Queensland. She has performed with numerous orchestras, ensembles and projects in Europe and Australia, and is currently developing her work as a chamber and freelance musician in Brisbane. She has competed as a piccoloist internationally, having won semifinalist prizes in the 2016 (San Diego) and 2018 (Orlando) NFA Piccolo Artist competitions, as well as Best Performance of the Newly Commissioned Work in the 2018 competition.

Maddilyn has studied performance degrees in Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney, and Antwerp (Belgium). She is a 2017 graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, where she was awarded two Master degrees with high distinction (flute, piccolo), studying with Aldo Baerten and Peter Verhoyen.

Maddilyn has commissioned and performed new works for flute by Australian composers (premiered in Belgium 2017) and is also involved in music research, presently looking at Baroque performance practice in relation to the piccolo and recorder; she has presented her work in Belgium and the USA.

Jessie commenced her studies with Prof. Felix Renggli at the age of 16 which she completed both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees with honours at the Hochschule für Musik, Basel in Switzerland.

She has been invited to festivals such as the Flötenfestival Freiburg, Australian Flute Festival, Internationale Musiktage Arthur Lourié in collaboration with the Allgemeine Lesegesellschaft Basel, Singapore Flute Festival, Flautissimo in Rome and the Baselbieter Konzerte organisation in Liestal.

Jessie won the 2014 Fritz-Gerber Stiftung stipendium and the 2011 Migros-Kulturprozent Studienpreis in Switzerland. She was awarded 5th prize at the 2010 Nicolet International Flute Competition, with further success with participation at the 2017 Kobe International Flute Competition, 2008 Rampal International Flute Competition in Paris, 2008 Concours National d'Exécution Musicale Riddes, 2007 First International Flute Competition Maxence Larrieu in Nice and the 2006 Inaugural Nicolet International Flute Competition.

She has performed with the Kammerorchester Basel, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Principal Flute with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Leigh Harrold enjoys a reputation as a “musician of rare talent and intelligence”, and is one of Australia’s busiest and most sought-after pianists. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, Africa and Australia as both soloist and chamber musician, including concerts at Australia House in London, the Royal Academy of Music, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Harare International Festival of Arts, and concerto engagements with many Australian orchestras. He has an internationally lauded reputation as an associate artist, having collaborated with such luminaries as Thomas Reibl, lecturer in viola at the Salzburg Mozarteum; Michael Cox, principal flautist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Gaede, ex-concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; London flautist Wissam Boustany; New York violinist Charles Castleman; Swedish cellist Mats Lidstrom; and British pianist Mark Gasser. He is also a committed teacher and speaker, having earned much acclaim not just as a performer, but also as a presenter and pedagogue. He holds a PhD in piano performance, and two University medals. He also enjoys a bit of coffee and yoga (though not at the same time).

Deborah Hart has been a professional horn player since 1985 and has worked all over Australia including the Melbourne, West Australian and Sydney Symphony as well as the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic.

She has taught all levels of brass players but Deborah has always had a special interest in musical performance anxiety – trying to work out how to play your best in auditions and on the concert platform, when stage fright inevitably shows up.

In 2010 Deborah was introduced to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and since then has applied ACT to her own performance. After completing her Master of Counselling in 2016, Deborah began running workshops at Australian National Academy of Music, Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland Conservatoria, West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, The University of Western Australia and Monash University as well as secondary schools in Victoria.  

Deborah has a private counselling practice for musicians struggling with auditions, performance, career challenges as well as counselling for non-musicians.  www.actformusic.com

Vernon was Principal Flute in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for more than 10 years. He represented Australia in the World Symphony Orchestra in the USA in 1971 and has played guest principal flute with many orchestras including the London Symphony, the BBC, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestras.

He has performed many concertos with all of the Australian Symphony Orchestras in addition to numerous solo recitals in all four capital cities. On his European solo concert tours he has performed in London, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia, at the Jerash Festival in Jordan, for the Israel Philharmonic Society in Tel Aviv, and with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Greece. His overseas concert tours with the Canberra Wind Soloists have also been quite extensive, taking him through Japan, Russia, Yugoslavia,New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam, and in 1996 he toured Asia as Guest Principal Flute with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for EMI, Festival, Peter Mann, Move,Fluteworks and the ABC, in addition to playing on many film soundtracks and an Olivia Newton John CD. His EMI recording of the Colin Brumby Concerto received wide acclaim and sold out almost immediately. It has since been re-released on a CD featuring Australian compositions, and the slow movement of this concerto is also featured in a ?swoon? collection CD! He has also recorded all of the Bach flute sonatas on 2 CD's on the Move label. Vernon is a highly respected master teacher of the flute and is the author of "The Flute Players Book with Demonstration CD" by Vernon Hill, which is now in its third edition,and continues to be sold throughout the world.

Mr. Hill's teaching career spans more than 40 years and in that time he has had a profound influence on helping to raise the quality of flute playing in Australia. He joined the faculty of the Canberra School of Music in 1980, was Head of the Woodwind Department from 1983 - 1999, and is now continuing his association at the School as a Distinguished Artist for the Australian National University. 

Greg Holdaway is Director of professional training at BodyMinded: Sydney Alexander Technique where he trains Alexander technique teachers and works with musicians, music teachers and others in professional practise. He began with the Alexander work in the 1980’s as a performer, finding that it alleviated the pain from injuries, and improved his ability to perform with clarity, ease and enjoyment right from the start. Now, with over 25 years experience teaching musicians and music teachers, Greg presents practical workshops, classes and lessons at Music schools, Conservatoria and Music conferences across Australia and overseas. His years of personal practise and teaching are supported by academic knowledge and teaching in the area of Human Movement. He has a Masters Honours degree from the University of Sydney, and has participated in University based research in movement coordination and the teaching of Somatics. He is the originator of the BodyMinded approach to teaching which provides professional development training to Music teachers across Australia.

Jude Huxtable is one of Sydney’s most experienced and dedicated flute teachers.

Jude has devoted her life to the pursuit of excellence in introducing young people to the flute and guiding them to an understanding of their potential as musicians. With over 40 years teaching experience, she remains driven to find a way to bring students of all ages to a clear understanding of the power of music to inform and speak to every part of their lives.

Jude teaches at Abbotsleigh School in Sydney, teaching girls from Year 3 through to HSC and diploma level and frequently being privileged to accompany her students on their journies from beginner through to accomplished musician. Many of her students have become music educators themselves.

Jude is co author, with Jocelyn Fazzone, of the pedagogical guide for teachers, ‘Starting Out, Tips Traps and Troubleshooting”. She is an AMEB woodwind examiner and enjoys playing with several Sydney recorder consorts and Sydney Wind Symphony.

Jude is a firm believer in life long learning and music making.

Graham Jesse is a jazz musician, playing saxophone and flute. He started playing the flute at age 14, being inspired by the jazz flute playing of Don Burrows, and was very fortunate to have the wonderful Victor McMahon as his first teacher. Victor focused on the fundamentals: tone production, airstream, hand position, and appreciation of music.

Born in Brisbane, Brock began his study of the bassoon at age 13. In 1994 he joined the QLD Conservatorium Music School before beginning his undergraduate studies there in 1997.

Brock has appeared with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Baroque Orchestra, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and as the Principal contrabassoonist with the Australian World Orchestra.

During 2001-2002 Brock took up an Acting bassoon/contrabassoon position with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra before moving to Sydney after accepting an Acting bassoon position with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2003.  In 2004, Brock won the position of Principal contrabassoonist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra which he currently still holds.

Since his appointment with the Melbourne Symphony, Brock has been working to improve the profile of the contrabassoon to musicians and audiences alike. In July 2007 Brock gave the Australian premiere of Gunther Schuller’s Concerto for contrabassoon with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as part of the final of the 2007 Symphony Australia Young performer of the year awards. In 2008, he toured as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, performing his own transcription of Weber’s bassoon Concerto for the contrabassoon.

Brock has a growing collection of bassoons (13 to date) which he enjoys playing in various modern and historically based ensembles and is a founding member of Unholy Rackett, a group specialising in music for curtals and racketts from the renaissance and early baroque

Bronwyn Kirkpatrick (B.Mus A.Mus.A clarinet) is a master of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), who studied with shakuhachi grand-master Dr Riley Lee. A Churchill Fellowship and an Australia Council Skills and Arts Development Grant enabled her to further her studies with shakuhachi masters in Japan. Bronwyn’s performance highlights include working with the Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Sydney Dance Company and TaikOz. Bronwyn has performed at numerous festivals nationally and internationally, including the World Shakuhachi Festival, the OzAsia Festival, Sydney Sacred Music Festival, Four Winds Festival and the National Folk Festival. She performs regularly as a freelance artist and is particularly interested in performing new works for shakuhachi with western instruments.  Bronwyn is an active teacher of the shakuhachi in the Blue Mountains, Sydney and around the world via Skype.

www.bronwynkirkpatrick.com

Associate Professor of Flute and Head of Woodwind, University of Adelaide. Elizabeth Koch studied piano with Clemens Leske at the Elder Conservatorium of Music for her Bachelor of Music Degree, before taking up the flute at the age of twenty with David Cubbin. She graduated in both flute and piano. Her orchestral experience is extensive with 27 years in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth was awarded a prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship to study with Maxence Larrieu in Paris and this inspired her to organise several study tours for her students to London, Paris, Lyon and Basel with master teachers William Bennett, Michael Cox, Susan Milan, Sophie Cherrier, Patricia Nagle, Philippe Bernold, Felix Renggli, Paul Edmund-Davies and Julien Beaudiment. Elizabeth was Artistic Director of the Sydney Flute Festival in 2007 and the Australian Flute Festival in 2009 at the University of Adelaide where she has directed several Michael Cox Flute Courses.

Elizabeth has been awarded teaching prizes including the Stephen Cole The Elder Award for Teaching Excellence (the University of Adelaide's highest teaching award), the Australian Learning and Teaching Award in 2010, (the only prize awarded in the University sector in South Australia for that year) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Award in 2018 for teaching excellence.

In 2006 Elizabeth was recognised with the OAM (Order of Australia Medal) for services to flute music and mentoring young musicians and an AM (Order of Australia) in 2016. She recently received a Higher Education Academy (UK) Senior Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding teaching and mentoring of colleagues. Elizabeth continues her love of teaching at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, including the organisation of further flute study tours to Europe.

James Kortum is Lecturer in Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium.  Originally from the United States, James studied flute with Donald Peck, Principal Flute Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and former Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra flutist, Philip Sieburg.  At the completion of his studies, James was offered the position of Principal Flute with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and has subsequently been Principal Flute with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and Second Flute with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.  Prior to his current position, James was Lecturer in Flute at the University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.  James has performed and given classes throughout Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the United States, England and Russia.  In collaboration with pianist Jeanell Carrigan, James and Jeanell recently released their new CD, Aulos Australis, featuring sonatas for flute and piano composed by Australian women composers.  James is Co-Director of The Complete Flute with Andrew Macleod, Principal Piccolo of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, offering courses for performers and teachers in Macedon, Victoria.

Ewa studied the flute in Poland under a distinguished Professor Jerzy Mrozik receiving her Master of Music in Performance Degree from the Conservatorium of Music in Wroclaw. During her studies, Ewa received a number of distinctions and awards in Polish national and international competitions, such as 1st Prize at the International Woodwind and Brass Competition in Wroclaw, 1st Prize at the National Flute Competition in Olsztyn, 3rd Prize at the International Woodwind Competition in Jastrzebie Zdroj, 4th Prize at the National Flute Competition in Warsaw.

Shortly after receiving the Master of Music degree, Ewa migrated to Australia. One of the first performances in Australia was a solo recital at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Sydney. In December 2006 Ewa performed at PolArt Classical Music Festival in Hobart, giving both solo and chamber music recital. In the following year Ewa has appeared as a finalist at Sydney Flute Festival Open Flute Competition.

Ewa has collaborated with Wind Energy Ensemble, Sydney Contemporary Orchestra and Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Ewa is a founding member of the Hourglass Ensemble since October 2015. She has given over 20 performances with the group in Australia, Poland, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Ewa has recently appeared as one of Hourglass Ensemble’s members at Fine Music FM in July 2018. She is currently preparing for a premiere of Everything I Touch Flute Concerto by Margery Smith. The concerto will be premiered with Hourglass Ensemble on May 4^th 2019 at the Sydney Opera House.

 Doreen Lee is the Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano/Piano at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Lee has performed with notable artists such as Takács Quartet violist Geraldine Walther, Colorado Symphony Orchestra Principal Horn Michael Thornton, flutists Christina Jennings and Katherine Kemler, and cellist Johannes Moser, among others. She is also the pianist of the du Toit / Lee Duo, formed in collaboration with flutist Cobus du Toit. The duo's debut album, Mythavian, takes inspiration from mythological folklore and birdsong.

Lee received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying with Margaret McDonald and Alexandra

Nguyen. She specialized in solo piano performance under the tutelage of Walter Ponce at the University of California Los Angeles, and went on to earn her Masters in Music at the Peabody Institute with Benjamin Pasternack. She was selected to perform in master classes for pianist and music theorist Robert Levin at the Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg. As a collaborative pianist, Lee has received instruction from members of the Takács, Cassatt, and Tokyo Quartets as well as Jean Barr, Anne Epperson, and Jonathan Feldman. She has participated in various music festivals including the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Music Academy of the West.

Prior to joining the faculty at USA, Dr. Lee served as Adjunct Instructor of Collaborative Piano (Instrumental) at Colorado State University, as well as Lecturer of Collaborative Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Xavier Luck was born in Sydney and educated at the Sydney Conservatorium High School and the University of Melbourne studying with Noelene Poole and Mardi Mc Sullea respectively.  He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music, London and the University for performing Arts, Vienna with Wolfgang Schulz.

During his 15 years in Vienna, Xavier performed regularly with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic as well as Klangforum Wien.

Xavier has held principal flute positions in the Hyogo Performing Arts Orchestra Japan as well as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2013 he has been professor of flute at Kobe College in Japan

Xavier has performed as guest principal flute in orchestras such as the Wiener Symphoniker (2018), London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra.

He has performed at many international festivals and on numerous orchestral recordings for labels such as Deutsche Gramphon, Chandos and LPO live.

Since settling in Japan, Xavier is continuing his passion of new music for the flute and is performing solo and chamber music recitals throughout Japan and Europe.

In 2016 Camerata records released his first solo recording “Taffanel Master Fantasist”

Andrew Macleod has been Principal Piccolo of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2003.

Aside from the MSO, Andrew has played as a guest with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony as well as the Adelaide, Tasmanian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. He has also performed with the Australian World Orchestra.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Music degree with First Class Honours from The University of Queensland, where he studied flute and piccolo with Jeanette Manricks.  He also holds a Graduate Diploma of Music and a Master of Philosophy degree in music from The University of Queensland.

Andrew later studied in England with renowned teacher Trevor Wye.

Andrew has appeared as a soloist with the MSO on numerous occasions, and in 2013 gave the world premiere of Paul Stanhope’s Concerto for Piccolo Flute with the MSO. The recording of the performance was released on the MSO LIVE label by the ABC, and in 2014 the album was nominated for an ARIA in the Best Classical Album category.

Andrew teaches flute and piccolo at The University of Melbourne and at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Andrew is also Co-Director of The Complete Flute, which presents courses for performers and teachers.

Tomomi Matsuo has been awarded several prizes throughout Japan both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, including the Gold Prize in the 26th All Japan Ensemble Contest and the 3rd Prize at the 58th Student Music Competition of Japan in Osaka. She has also been awarded prizes at the 19th Music Competition of Kanagawa in Japan and the 9th Biwako International Flute Competition.

Tomomi completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the Tokyo University of the Arts with Professor Tomio Nakano. She then took part in a two-year intensive course at Trevor Wye’s Flute Studio in the UK. In the summer of 2014, Tomomi graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts with a Master’s degree in Music Performance (Orchestra) where she studied with Professor Matthias Ziegler. She was then accepted into the Specialised Master of Music (Soloist) program there which she completed in 2016. During her studies, Tomomi acted as the assistant teacher to Professor Ziegler.

Tomomi is a regular assistant performer at Trevor Wye's lectures in the UK, USA and Japan and in September 2011, she began performing with the Senzoku-gakuen New Philharmonic Orchestra. Tomomi has also been invited as a guest performer at the National Flute Association Convention, the British Flute Society Festival and the Australian Flute Festival
and performed regularly with the Philharmonia Zurich and the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra. Tomomi has collaborated with many world-renowned conductors including Kazuki Yamada, Nello Santi, Fabio Luisi, Alain Altinoglu and Jun Marrkl and in 2015, she had the opportunity

to collaborate with Toshio Hosokawa as a soloist for his work, Voyage V.

In 2017, Tomomi moved to Sydney and is teaching and performing regularly around Australia, including with the Opera Australia Orchestra.

Videos: http://www.angusmcphersonflute.com/p/gallery.html

Originally from Australia, Kathryn Moorhead has been the Associate Principal flautist of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand since 2010. She teaches flute at the University of Auckland and as a chamber musician has performed at International Arts Festivals in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Aberdeen and London and has toured with the Koru Wind Quintet for Chamber Music New Zealand.

She has performed with many orchestras including the Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, Tasmanian and Netherlands Symphony Orchestras, the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras, the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestra Victoria.

Kathryn holds a PhD in Music from the University of Adelaide and is has won prizes at the Leslie Barklamb Flute Competition and the Australian International Solo Flute Competition. She has performed on several solo, chamber music and orchestral CDs for Move Records, ABC Classics and Naxos.

Ingrid Bauer is the Principal Harp of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. As a soloist, she has performed with Bach Musica, the Bay of Plenty Symphonia, the Kapiti Concert Orchestra, and the Wellington Youth Orchestra. Ingrid has performed solo in competitions and recitals in the US, Europe, New Zealand and Australia, and has a solo CD called Dreambird.

Patrick Nolan's rewarding performance career has seen him playing flute in chamber, symphony, opera and ballet orchestras. Nolan was Principal Flute in firstly the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra and subsequently The Queensland Orchestra (now QSO). He has played baroque, classical and contemporary concerti in flagship concert series and has participated in numerous recordings for ABC Classics, ABC Classic FM, Naxos, Tall Poppies and 4MBS Radio.  Patrick derives much satisfaction in his work as a chamber musician and was a founding member of The Lunaire Collective and the Aether Ensemble.  He was artist director of the 1999 Australian Flute Convention.

Since moving from orchestral life Nolan has embarked on a career in the education of young musicians at tertiary and pre-tertiary levels. He is Specialist Tutor for Flute at the University of Queensland. He tutors at summer and winter music schools and for the wind sections in Queensland Youth Orchestra ensembles. In January Patrick embarked on a project with Michael Cox and Joanna Sullivan in collating insights and a pedagogic framework for teaching flute.

Karen has enjoyed bringing music into the lives of children and adults for over 30 years in her work as an educator and performer. With an M.Mus, B.A. (Hons.Mus), and Dip.Ed. (Mus), Karen’s career has encompassed flute teaching, class music teaching and conducting orchestras, choirs and flute ensembles. Karen was Director of Music at Sydney Grammar (Edgecliff) School and has taught at both primary and secondary levels. She is also an experienced lecturer and adjudicator.

Karen is the author of one of Australia’s most popular and enduring flute teaching methods – “The Young Flute Player”. This series now has five books, including collections of duets and trios, with two new titles due for release in 2019. Karen is passionate about teaching young children and adult beginners, aiming to lay a strong foundation for their flute playing.

Karen loves to use games to teach fundamentals such as hand positions, note reading and aural skills, and has shared these creative ideas in her book “Fun & Games”, plus an extensive range of music card games for all instruments.

Tania Owens graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 1989 and has worked as a music teacher throughout Queensland. She is a passionate educator across both primary and high schools.

In 2014 she returned to the QLD Conservatorium of Music to study composition and graduated with a Graduate Certificate in Music Studies. She has studied with Stephen Cronin, Gerard Brophy, Josaphine Jin and Ralph Hultgren.

In 2017 Her piece Fantasie for Solo Flute won second prize in the Australian Flute Festival’s Composition Competition, as well as the Howard Bowles Prize at the Music Teachers’ Association of Queensland Composer’s competition. She is currently working on several commissions including a concert band piece for high school band and a small ensemble piece for flute, piano, violin, cello and voice. She is also writing music for her own flute and piano duo with her friend and fellow composer, Josephine Jin.

When not composing or teaching, Tania plays both Classical and Irish flute and has performed at festivals, dances and concerts in her local community.

As the first recipient of Columbia University’s Global Wind Artist Residency, in 2014, Rosamund spent 3 months in Tokyo learning to play the ryuteki, a medieval Japanese flute. Since then her love of Japanese flutes has grown to include the study of the shakuhachi ,with Bronwyn Kirkpatrick,a truly lifetime project, and the weird and wonderful nohkan, with the help of Kaoru Watanabe in New York. TrioBamboo was formed in 2018 with Bronwyn Kirkpatrick on shakuhachi and Henry Liang on Sho, with the goal of exploring and creating music for traditional Japanese flutes along side Western flutes.

Libby Pring is currently Principal Flute with the Opera Australia Orchestra. She regards it as a great privilege to have performed the masterpieces of the operatic and ballet repertoire. This year’s highlights include a concert performance of Umberto Giordano’s opera, “Andrea Chénier” in Sydney and Melbourne with the great tenor, Jonas Kaufmann. Later in the year, a concert of Operatic Highlights will be  performed in the stunning landscape of Uluru.

Italian-born pianist Gabriella Pusner studied at the Conservatorium of Music with Igor Hmelnitsky, graduating with both Teacher and Performer Diplomas and awarded the Shadforth Hooper Prize for the most outstanding recitalist.

She has maintained a busy career as soloist and also associate artist for visiting international artists such as Denis Bouriakov, Aldo Baerten and Alexa Still.  

Her teaching positions have included the Sydney Conservatorium Keyboard Department, Australian Institute of Music and Newcastle University Music Department.

Presently, Gabriella maintains an active teaching schedule with a private studio and, more recently, being involved in the establishment of the Theme and Variations Piano School operating from the Theme and Variations Piano  Showroom in Sydney.

Anna Rutkowska-Schock has been a laureate of many national piano competitions and she reached the final stage of the European Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt, Germany, as a piano student of Prof. Helena Fumanowicz-Kurzynska. She is a graduate of Magna Cum Laude (Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance). In 2001, the pianist graduated with Master Degree from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw, in the piano class of Prof. Grzegorz Kurzynski.

In 2003 she received the Best Accompanist award in the IBLA Grand Prize International Music Competition. She has been invited to work as the staff accompanist for the IBLA Grand Prize Competition every year since, and in the same capacity for international music competitions in Rome, Peru, Slovakia and Poland. Since 2007, she has been a jury member of the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition.

Anna Rutkowska-Schock completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2006 and received a post-doctoral degree in 2013. She has given solo and chamber concerts in Poland, the U.S.A. (including several performances at Carnegie Hall), Indonesia, Peru, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia.

Anna is currently a core member of Hourglass Ensemble. She has given over 15 performances with the group in Australia, Poland, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Anna Rutkowska-Schock appears courtesy of the Hourglass Ensemble

Emily is a freelance orchestral flautist and chamber musician as well as a sought after flute teacher in South-east Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Music with a major in Advanced Flute Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium. In 2014 Emily was awarded the James Carson Memorial Prize. She has been a soloist with Queensland Philharmonia, Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Mandolin Orchestra, Ensemble Fabrique, Queensland Wind and Brass, Brisbane Chorale, in the Queensland Youth Symphony in 2010 - 2014, principal flute with Queensland Philharmonia, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra & Opera Queensland for Queensland Music Festival’s regional performances, Tina Arena and James Morrison for QMF’s Regional Chamber Orchestra Tour, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Wind Orchestra, Queensland Mandolins, Conservatorium Symphony and Wind Orchestras. Internationally, Emily has undertaken intensive programs including Charterhouse Summer Music School, Netherlands Flute Academy and Oxford Flute Summer School. Emily has been fortunate enough to perform for flautists including; Dieter Flurry, Emily Beynon, Paul Edmund-Davies, Michael Cox, Leone Buyse, Lisa-Maree Amos and others.

Joanna Sullivan has enjoyed a varied musical career. She won the Lesley Barklamb scholarship in 1982 and was a finalist in the National Flute Competition in 1983. Joanna freelanced in Melbourne, playing with the VSO before moving to Queensland. In 2011 she performed with acclaimed Sarod player Arman ali Khan in India and travels to France regularly to perform with a piano trio.  Joanna is principal flute with the Northern Rivers Symphony Orchestra.

Joanna’s studio teaching experience spans 40 years. She taught flute at the Queensland Conservatorium and Sommerville House prior to moving to the Gold Coast where she has taught flute at All Saints Anglican School for the past 20 years.

Joanna has a Master’s Degree from the University of Queensland in Music pedagogy. Her study led her to write a thesis investigating the beliefs, values and pedagogical practices of performer flute players of advanced students. This inspired her instigation of an exciting joint project with Michael Cox and Patrick Nolan exploring the pedagogical practices of Michael Cox, investigating and collating an effective framework for teaching flute.

Virginia is recognised internationally as a leading pedagogue, flute performer and musician.

After winning 1st prize in many prestigious competitions, including the Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards and the Australian National Flute Competition, Virginia’s solo career began which has seen her perform concerti, solo recitals and chamber music across many countries. As an orchestral musician, Virginia performed as Principal Flute with the Australian Chamber Orchestra for over 10 years, and been guest principal flute with many of the major symphony orchestras within Australia and overseas. Virginia has released CDs on ABC Classics, Tall Poppies, Move Records and a number of other labels. A keen commissioner of Australian compositions, Virginia has given world premiere performances, including works by Elena Kats-Chernin, Nigel Westlake and Mark Isaacs. Her most recent CD release is with pianist Simon Tedeschi, on the Move label.

Virginia is currently Head of Flute at Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, and is also Head of Flute at the Australian National Academy in Melbourne. Virginia is also Artistic Director of the bi-annual Australian Flute Festival.

Brijette Tubb enjoys a busy career as a soloist, orchestral musician and educator.  A Master of Music graduate from the Queensland Conservatorium, she also holds both her AMusA and LMusA (awarded with Distinction) from the Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB).   Brijette has been successful in many competitions (local, state and national) including winning the prestigious James Carson Memorial Flute Prize and being a finalist in the ABC's Young Performer Awards, and the Great Romantics Competition.  She has been a featured artist in the 2015 and 2017 Australian Flute Festivals, at the Unbound Flute Festival and as a concerto soloist with several University Orchestras, State Youth Orchestras and with the Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra as winner of its 2014 Concerto Competition. Brijette is highly sought after as an orchestral musician and regularly performs as Principal Piccolo with the Queensland Pops Orchestra and Queensland Festival Orchestra.  She has performed as Principal Flute and Piccolo in the Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, Ipswich City Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony, Australian Youth Orchestra, and Queensland Conservatorium Ensembles. 

Peter Verhoyen is principal piccolo for the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra (Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra) in Belgium. He studied flute at the conservatories of Brussels, Meudon/Paris and Antwerp. He was a prize-winner in the Belfius Classics competition and the Concours International UFAM in Paris, and a semi-finalist in the NFA Orlando Young Artists Competition in 1995.

Peter has commissioned several works for piccolo from Flemish composers. His piccolo recital CDs Piccolo Tunes, The Birds, Piccolo Polkas, Psychobird and La Gazza Ladra with pianist Stefan De Schepper were received enthusiastically in the international music press and established his reputation as a piccolo specialist.

Peter Verhoyen has been invited to give masterclasses and concerts in conservatories in Belgium, Europe and the United States, and has given piccolo recitals and masterclasses at numerous NFA Conventions and the BFS Convention.

Peter Verhoyen currently teaches at his private studio in Bruges and at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, where he developed a specialist piccolo master program, and organizes the annual International Flute Seminar Bruges.

VIVA FLUTIST FLUTE ENSEMBLE was founded by Mr Carson Yu and a distinguished group of Hong Kong-based professional flutist in 2012. Core members are active flute performers who graduated from music departments of local and oversea universities and conservatories such as École Normal Musique de Paris, Royal Northern College of Music, Hong Kong Baptist University as well as The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. VIVA FLUTIST is a passionate group of performers of flute music and share the goal of inspiring and promoting flute through the various type of performance.

VIVA FLUTIST participated in various flute festival in Japan and the UK for the purpose of embracing international flute techniques and exposure. As a flutist, music educator and arranger, Mr Carson Yu is leading VIVA FLUTIST aims to grow with the new members, through active participation in music performance and education as well as promote flute music at all ages and audiences.

Thomas Waller is a music honours student studying percussion at the University of NSW. Based in Sydney, Thomas performs regularly with a large variety of musicians and ensembles, ranging from orchestral, contemporary, chamber music and musical theatre. Some recent production credits include ‘Cry Baby’ (the Hayes theatre, 2018) and new Australian musical ‘Evie May’ (the Hayes theatre). As a student of virtuosic percussion specialist David Lockeridge, Thomas one day hopes to complete a masters degree specialising in solo percussion.

Keyna Wilkins is a pioneering Australian/British composer-flautist at home in many musical worlds. Characterised by an ongoing fascination with astronomical phenomena and the incorporation of dance forms, jazz harmonies, improvisation and electroacoustic elements into her compositions, her works are diverse, engaging and linked to her personal spirituality. Her work has been described as "Arresting, genre-blurring..disquieting music with massive breadth and high drama." by the Sydney Morning Herald and "Full of sonic textures and infinite possibility." by Jazz and Beyond. She was one of three finalists in the 2018 nation-wide APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards for Excellence by an Individual. With international classical training, she has branched into jazz, experimental live theatre, flamenco fusion and improvisation in a wide range of ensembles. In 2015 she formed her own trio, Ephemera, and after a series of successful shows around Sydney, were invited to feature at the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival in 2017 and Extended Play New Music Festival at City Recital in August 2018. In 2017 she launched her flamenco and jazz-infused contemporary solo flute album, Air in Motion, at the Flute Tree Studio (Leichhardt) to critical acclaim.  Her compositions are published by the Australian music publishing house, Wirripang, and have been performed around the world. Having completed her Master of Music Composition at Sydney Conservatorium in 2016, she also has an MA in Flute Performance from Bristol University (UK) and BA Mus involving study at Sydney Conservatorium, Bath Spa University (UK) and Hildesheim University (Germany). www.keynawilkins.com

Mark has won numerous competitions and awards throughout Australia including the Leslie Barklamb Scholarships, the 3MBS Young Performer of the Year Award and the Australian Youth Classical Music Competition. In 2006, he was the winner of the Open Flute Competition at the Australian Flute Festival. Internationally, Mark was the recipient of the British Flute Society Award, the Zangger-Weber Stiftung and in 2012, he received the Third Prize and the Audience Prize at the August-Everding Music Competition in Munich, Germany.

Mark began learning the flute with Tony Barnden at the age of 10, who helped him attain his Associate Diploma from the Australian Music Examination Board at the age of 13. Whilst studying with Alan Hardy at the age of 14, Mark was awarded a Licentiate Diploma with Distinction, making him the youngest flutist in Australia to have received the honour. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Australian National University where he studied with Virginia Taylor and Vernon Hill, after which he travelled to the U.K to study with Trevor Wye at his Flute Studio; Zurich, Switzerland with Matthias Ziegler where he received his Master of Music Performance and Specialised Master of Music for Soloists degrees; and Munich, Germany with Andrea Lieberknecht where he received his Master of Performance in New Music degree.

Mark was a guest member of the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich and has collaborated with several notable composers including Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, William Blank and Heinz Holliger; and conductors such as Kent Nagano, Lionel Bringuier, Roland Kluttig, Zsolt Nagy, David Zinman, Werner Ehrhardt, Douglas Boyd and Nello Santi. As a soloist, Mark has performed with the Bach Collegium München and the Filharmonie Hradec Králové.

Mark is now teaching and performing around Australia and is the Artist-in-Residence at Flutes & Flutists Pty Limited.

Yulugi is a fresh collaboration between Gumaroy Newman, an Indigenous song man and didjeridu player descending from the Gamilaroi and Wakka Wakka nations, and Keyna Wilkins, a NSW-based composer and musician (piano, flute). Yulugi is a dialogue across cultures, inspired by the Australian landscape and animals. 'Yulugi' means play, dance or have fun in Gamilaroi, one of the Northern NSW Indigenous languages. The sonic scapes created are a melting pot of indigenous and western sounds and textures, and inspired by the Australian landscape and animals, this duo explores spiritual awakening through improvised music.  The duo features Keyna Wilkins, a pioneering flutist, pianist and composer and one of three national finalists in the APRA/AMCOS Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence 2018, and Gumaroy Newman, is an in-demand didgeridu player who has performed all over the world in indigenous ceremonies and concerts alike including performing with Shane Howard. Stylistically broad, this duo will will take you on a journey into the heart of Australia with dream-like sequences alongside landscape depictions and animal mimicry and echoes of tribal lores, drawing on a myriad of musical influences, to create a unique and authentic soundscape of Australia.

https://www.yulugi.com/

Katie Zagórski graduated with first class honours from the Australian National University School of Music before taking up a scholarship position at the Australian National Academy of Music. She has been a finalist in the New Zealand Flute Competition, the ABC Young Performer of the Year Award, a winner of the Victorian Flute Guild Competition and a winner of the Australian International Flute Competition. Katie thoroughly enjoyed her year as the Sydney Symphony Fellow in 2011.

In addition to an active chamber music and solo career, Katie frequently plays with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the Opera Australia Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and most recently as guest principal with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed concerti with Orchestra Victoria and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, has twice been an artist in residence at The Banff Centre, Canada, and was the sole Australian competitor for the Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition, Denmark, 2010.

Katie enjoyed the past two years down in Hobart playing with the TSO, and is now thrilled to be back in sunny Sydney, living by her favourite Bronte beach.