SYDNEY

Adrienne holds both a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Music Education. She is a lecturer in Waldorf/Steiner music education and a senior music examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board. She holds a Diploma in Integrated Creative Arts Therapy plus another as a Sound Therapy Practitioner. She currently specialises in her private practice as a flute teacher and in songwriting for adolescents experiencing anxiety.

MELBOURNE

Lisa-Maree is Principal Flute with Orchestra Victoria, based in Melbourne, Australia since 2007. In her 30+ year career, Lisa-Maree has been Guest Principal Flute with both the BBC Symphony and the Boston Symphony. She is a member of the Flute staff at Melbourne Conservatorium, Melbourne University.

PERTH

Lina was recently appointed as flautist of multiple Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird. A sought-after collaborator, this season she appears as guest musician with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, and Stargaze. Lina is a Powell artist.

SYDNEY

In 2019, Joshua Batty was appointed as Principal Flute with Sydney Symphony aged 25 having held the same position with the RTÉ  Concert Orchestra, Ireland and Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester for four years. The roles of principal flute, concerto soloist, recitalist and teacher, have seen Joshua working extensively across UK, Europe, USA, South America, Asia and Australasia.

PERTH

Mary-Anne is the Associate Principal Flute with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. She teaches flute performance at the University of Western Australia.

MELBOURNE

Brigid is an international woodwind soloist, composer, performance artist, visual artist, video artist and educator. Her work is widely presented in concerts, festivals, and radio broadcasts throughout Australia, Asia, Brazil, Europe and the USA.My focus is integrating musical ideas with a combination of different media. She has a PhD in Composition from UTAS and a Master of Music in Composition from The University of Melbourne.

SYDNEY

Alexandra Castle studied flute in her hometown of Adelaide with Geoffrey Collins at the Elder Conservatorium between the years of 2004-2007. She has performed as a freelancer in Sydney with the Australian Opera Orchestra since 2008 and is currently on contract with Wicked the Musical. 

SYDNEY

Geoffrey recently concluded his long standing tenure as Principal Flute of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra - returning full time to Sydney where he continues as a member of the Australia Ensemble based at the University of NSW. He has had an outstanding career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player.

ADELAIDE

Coruscalia Collective, Adelaide’s new flute ensemble, brings 21st-century music and works by Australian composers into interesting spaces and informal venues. The collective made its debut at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe Festival with a program of new and recent Australian music, and is collaborating with several Adelaide-based composers on upcoming projects.

SYDNEY

Anna Cooper is a freelance flutist and teacher based in Sydney, Australia. In 2017, Anna won First Prize in the AFF Open Flute Competition and in 2018 was a Quarterfinalist at the NFA Young Artist Competition (USA). Anna has performed with the Opera Australia Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra.

WOLLONGONG - JUNIOR DAY DIRECTOR

Suzanne is an established flautist and teacher in the Illawarra Region. She teaches at the Wollongong Conservatorium and the Wollongong Flute Studio. Suzanne is the director of WollCon’s three flute ensembles. She tutors at the Junior State Music Camp, the Amateur Chamber Music Society Camps and is the woodwind tutor for the Regional Youth Orchestra NSW. Suzanne performs regularly with her chamber trio Zefiro.

MELBOURNE

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. Margaret is the beloved patron of the Australian Flute Festival.

PERTH

As Principal Piccolo of the Malaysian Philharmonic since 2001 Sonia has performed nearly 1500 wide ranging concerts, on piccolo, flute, alto and ethnic flute and has toured throughout Australia and Asia. Sonia has appeared as Principal Piccolo in Canada, Norway, NZ and in most Australian orchestras, the most recent being WASO since March 2023.

MELBOURNE

Principal Flute of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) since 1980, Prudence studied at the Victorian College of the Arts with Peter Edge and later with Aurele Nicolet in Switzerland. She has appeared as soloist in Carnegie Hall, New York, in Japan with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, in the Berlin Kammermusiksalle during the Kammermusik Fest and on many occasions in Australia with the MSO, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and other ensembles. Prudence has also toured internationally with the MSO, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and throughout Australia for Musica Viva with Germany’s Reger Trio and has participated for three years at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville.

SYDNEY - COLLABORATIVE ARTIST

Graduate of the Royal College of Music and University of Melbourne, Katherine is well regarded as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral pianist. Katherine is a founding member of tropical North Queensland’s Trio Paradiso with violinist Kirtley Leigh and cellist William Howard. She can be heard on recordings at MOVE records with Peter Sheridan, Helen Noonan and Shy-Cheen Yu.

SYDNEY

Aditya is a Bansuri exponent, playing light music on the Indian flute since his childhood and performs Indian Bollywood songs as solo Flute performer in India and Australia. He is a disciple of Melbourne based Flute maestro Shri.Vinod Prasanna and learning nuances of Indian classical music from past 5 years.

MELBOURNE

Melissa Doecke is co-director of award winning Inventi Ensemble and the Peninsula Summer Music Festival. She is a vibrant flautist with creativity and diversity defining her artistic practise. Melissa is in demand as a chamber musician, orchestral player, mentor and collaborator, with albums recently debuting on the ARIA charts.

NSW

Eclectix Quartet comprises Lisa Brekckenridge, Emma Knott, Fran Griffin and Keith Griffin. It was formed in 1993 by accident from the late-stayers of a Flute Society of NSW meeting. As the name suggests, the quartet performs music from many genres, making use of many sizes of flutes. Despite the emphasis on having a good time playing music, there is a serious side to Eclectix: each member brings to the ensemble the professionalism, musicality and originality necessary to sustain a programme of music on like instruments.

SYDNEY

A sought-after orchestral flautist, Kim Falconer has recently performed as Guest Principal Flute with the Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony and Opera Australia Orchestras. She was previously on contract with the Sydney Symphony as Acting Principal Piccolo and also undertook their Fellowship Program. Kim is a previous winner of the AFF Open Competition and holds her Licentiate Diploma with Distinction.

SYDNEY

Jocelyn is a well known flute teacher, performer and music publisher. Her musical career is busy and varied - she teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium High School and Rising Stars and has a large private studio. Jocelyn is the Woodwind Chief examiner (NSW) and Federal examiner, and performs with Windfall quintet. She has recently been working as consultant to the Series 4 flute grade books for the AMEB. She works as associate artist on piano with some of Sydney’s leading flutists and enjoys creating flute resources as a partner of Fluteworthy.   

SYDNEY

James Fortune is a Sydney-based flute and piccolo freelance player. He plays for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Choirs as well as various chamber music formations. He rounds out his profile as an active musician with teaching (both in schools and privately), examining for AMEB, adjudicating and tutoring for the Sydney Youth Orchestra Association, an institution which provided much of his orchestral training throughout his youth.

SYDNEY

Fuzheng Quintet features a cross-cultural collaboration of Western and Eastern traditional instrumentation together to demonstrate the diversity of the Australian community. The ensemble consists of Flute (Brianna Walkden-Brown),  Alto Flute (Fiona Yim), Auxiliary Flute (Adrienne Hanslow), Piano (Annie Yueming Wang) and Guzheng (Ousiyu Luo). After a successful full-house debut concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2022, Fuzheng Quintet is looking forward to performing more new works, collaborating and working closely with living composers.

ADELAIDE

Julia has been Principal Piccolo of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra since 2001, and has played as acting Principal Flute on regular occasions with the ASO since then. Her primary teachers have been Leone Buyse and Walfrid Kujala, from her years of postgraduate study in the USA. She has held positions with the NZSO and San Antonio Symphony previously, and did a year in the Gothenburg Opera Orchestra in Sweden. Julia is an active teacher in Adelaide and performed her published piccolo trio Piccolo Ridicolo in Chicago at the NFA Convention in 2022.

MELBOURNE

Jessie Gu is Associate Principal Flute of Orchestra Victoria. She has been Principal Flute and collaborated with orchestras such as the Oslo Philharmonic, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

NEWCASTLE

Soulful vocals caress a gentle ukulele, stitched together with lilting flute forging the sonic palette of the multidisciplinary artist, the Emerald Ruby propagates an eclectic and prolific practice encompassing sound, visual, camera, fashion, and literary arts. Through this kaleidoscopic practice, Jen Hankin often explores her lived experience of late diagnosed Autism/ADHD.

MELBOURNE - COLLABORATIVE ARTIST

Leigh Harrold’s international reputation as an associate artist has led to collaborations with such luminaries as Thomas Reibl, lecturer in viola at the Salzburg Mozarteum; Michael Cox, principal flautist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and London flautist Wissam Boustany. Leigh holds positions on the Faculties of ANAM and the University of Melbourne, and is pianist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

SYDNEY

Between 2012 and 2019, Jonathan was principal flautist of the Estonian National Opera Orchestra. As guest principal, he has performed with the Turku and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestras in Finland, the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and the Opera Australia Orchestra.

CANBERRA

Samantha is currently serving as a member of the Royal Military College Band, Duntroon. She has previously worked for many years with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, State Opera of South Australia, Adelaide Concert Orchestra and Band of the South Australia Police.

SYDNEY - COLLABORATIVE ARTIST

Alan Hicks is a graduate of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He is one of Australia’s foremost vocal coaches and accompanists. He currently works in the Vocal and Opera Studies and Piano Accompaniment Areas at Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

SYDNEY

​IBID is Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute) and Shane Carpini (drumset). Together they play stream of consciousness improvs and their own compositions inspired by philosophy, astronomy and human behaviour. Wilkins is an Australian/ British composer-musician and was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018. Carpini is a prolific drummer and composer.

SYDNEY

James Kortum is Lecturer in Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Prior to his current position, James was Lecturer of Flute at the University of Newcastle and also held positions with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Since 2014, James has been Co-Director of The Complete Flute with Andrew Macleod and Mardi McSullea. James is a Haynes Artist.

SYDNEY

Ewa studied the flute in Poland and won the National Flute Competition in Olsztyn. Shortly after receiving the Master of Music Performance degree, she immigrated to Australia. Ewa is a core member of Hourglass Ensemble and performed/recorded with the group nationally and internationally since 2015.

BRISBANE - COMPOSER

With a passion for flute ensemble, and the inclusion of low flutes, Monash has extended his reach into composition for this instrumentation. Monash has collaborated with the UQ School of Music Flute Ensemble and has released recordings under the Corella label. He is excited to have his work for Flute Choir ‘Aromatic Dance’ be included in the 2023 Australian Flute Festival lineup.

SYDNEY

Riley Lee has been performing the shakuhachi worldwide since 1974 in such venues as the Sydney Opera House, Boston Symphony Hall, Espace Cardin (Paris) and the Roundhouse Theatre (London). Riley’s latest solo recording is Breath of the Earth, an acclaimed 3CD set of the music of Hildegard. By the end of 2022, his music has enjoyed nearly 40 million streams on Spotify.

SYDNEY

Henry Liang is an innovative multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Sydney. He is currently serving in the Royal Australian Navy Band as a flautist and is the only active performer in Australia specialising in the Japanese shō.

BRISBANE

Dr Karen Anne Lonsdale is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, music educator, and researcher. She has adjudicated music competitions in Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore, most recently for the 9th Singapore Raffles International Music Festival’s Virtual Music Competition. She is also an examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.

MELBOURNE

Andrew Macleod joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as Principal Piccolo in 2003. In June 2013, he gave the world premiere of Paul Stanhope’s Piccolo Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Andrew teaches at The University of Melbourne and ANAM. Along with James Kortum, Andrew is the Co-Director of The Complete Flute. Andrew is a Yamaha Artist and plays a Yamaha YFL- 877 Custom Handmade Flute.

SYDNEY

Alex Manton is a flute teacher, classroom music teacher, conductor and composer. She studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and holds a B.Mus Ed, an ATCL from the Trinity College of Music and an A.Mus A and L.Mus A in flute performance from the AMEB. In the early 2000’s she demonstrated her versatility as a jazz flautist, performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festival. She has also worked as a session musician for numerous recordings and performances in the popular music industry.

MELBOURNE

Simone holds a BMus in Advanced Flute Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and an MPhil in Music Studies (Music Performance) from the University of Cambridge (UK), where she also had flute lessons with Michael Cox at the Royal Academy of Music in London. As an interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of flute performance, music psychology, and movement analysis, Simone regularly gives presentations at prestigious conferences.

SYDNEY

Kate has completed a Masters and Bachelor of Music (Performance) Hon Class I at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, learning from Alice Giles AM. She has played with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia Orchestra, Ensemble Apex. She was Principal Harp of The Metropolitan Orchestra from 2017 – 2022.

ADELAIDE

Kathryn teaches flute at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music. Kathryn held the position of Associate Principal Flute with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra between 2005 and 2022 and taught flute at the University of Auckland.

BRISBANE

Tim is Associate Professor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. He was the flautist and co-Artistic Director of Eighth Blackbird from 2006-2015. He toured the US and internationally, premiering more than 100 works and winning three Grammy Awards.

SYDNEY

Merryl was principal flute of the Johannesburg Philharmonic for five years before becoming doctoral assistant to Amy Porter at the University of Michigan. Merryl has performed and taught in the Netherlands, Canada, the US and South Africa. Merryl is Flute Specialist and Administrator at Flutes and Flutists in Sydney.

SYDNEY

Lamorna is a freelance flautist, concert presenter, educator and publisher who is passionate about the future of art music in Australia. She has many years experience working in the orchestral sector and is a core member of the new music group, Ensemble Offspring. Lamorna has created several recordings of new Australian flute music with repertoire selected to suit student flute players and several pedagogical volumes of repertoire for young flute players through Fluteworthy. 

SYDNEY

Karen is a music teacher, mentor and book author. She is passionate about bringing music into the lives of children and adults and has enjoyed working in music education for the past 40 years.

In 2023 Karen is publishing another collection of new works by living composers for Flute & Piano, bringing the total number of her commissions to over 50 pieces added to contemporary repertoire for flute.

SYDNEY

Cami Parr is a multi instrumentalist, songwriter, Dj, music teacher, sound healer and producer based in Sydney. His versatility of styles has allowed him to collaborate with different musicians around the world and his experience includes more than 600 shows in several festivals and venues globallly. He is sponsored by Kopelli.

SYDNEY - JURY MEMBER

Peggy Polias (she/her) is a composer, music engraver, academic and arts professional based on Darug land in Sydney. She recently graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under the supervision of Prof Liza Lim, focusing on themes of safety, secrecy, and journaling in sound and in the creative process.

SYDNEY

Libby has recently retired after over thirty years as Principal Flute with the with the Opera Australia Orchestra. It has been a career rich in performing beautiful repertoire, with memorable conductors and first class musicians. Libby’s studies in flute began in Melbourne with Annette Sloan, Leslie Barklamb, Vernon Hill and Thomas Pinschof . Later Libby took further studies in Vienna Austria with Wolfgang Schulz, then solo flute in the Vienna philharmonic. Libby is a Haynes Artist.

SYDNEY

Kate Proctor is a Sydney-based flautist who has a busy teaching and performing schedule. She is a casual musician with multiple Australian orchestras covering symphonic, operatic and ballet repertoire. Kate holds a Bachelor of Music Performance (Honours) from Sydney Conservatorium, which she completed in 2013 before taking further instruction in Europe.

MELBOURNE

Anna Rabinowicz IS a flautist at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM). She was a finalist in the 2022 Australian Youth Classical Music Competition and is a Haynes Flutes Young Artist. She has performed in orchestras including Orchestra Victoria, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra.

MELBOURNE

Paula Rae is a founding member of the Elision Ensemble, with whom she has premiered many new pieces and toured extensively nationally and internationally. She held the position of Associate Principal Flute in Orchestra Victoria for 16 years and now plays regularly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Paula is President of the Victorian Flute Guild.

MELBOURNE

Nathalie is a proponent of the Suzuki school, having studied with Rebecca Paluzzi, Toshio Takahashi, Pandora Bryce and David Gerry among others. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Music with Honours in 2000 and she did her Suzuki Teacher accreditation. She teaches at Toorak College, Newhaven College and runs her home studio, Melbourne Flute Masters, specialising in Suzuki flute.

SYDNEY - COLLABORATIVE ARTIST

Anna Rutkowska-Schock is a member of The Hourglass Ensemble with which she has extensively performed in Europe and Australia. She is a professor of chamber music at the K. Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, Poland, and a committee member of the Puerto Rico Center for Collaborative Piano. She has given several solo and chamber performances on five continents.

SYDNEY

Internationally acclaimed concert soloist Australian-French flutist Jane Rutter is a classical trailblazer who has devoted her life to French flute playing in a career that spans decades. Renowned for her quicksilver technique, onstage warmth, and musical imagination Jane’s theatricality and musicianship are recognised by her peers as pushing the boundaries of the French Flute school. She has popularised the flute and is a pioneer in classical flute, relaxation albums and flute meditation music. Jane Rutter was knighted by France for her contribution to French Music. Jane Rutter is a Haynes Artist.

ORANGE

David Shaw is a multi-instrumentalist, specialising in flute and piano. He is Head of Keyboard Studies and Schools Liaison at the Orange Regional Conservatorium, Music Director of the Orange Symphony Orchestra, and board member of the Orange Regional Arts Foundation and the Orange Chamber Music Festival. He is an active performer in and around Orange and enjoys collaborations with artists from all over Australia.

MELBOURNE

Winner of the ABC Young Performers Award, Eliza Shephard is a vibrant performer. She is quickly paving her way as an educator, improviser, and collaborator. A fervent contemporary musician, Eliza has established a course on experimental flute techniques, ‘The Extended Flute.’ Eliza is a Haynes artist.

MELBOURNE

A specialist in low flutes (bass, contrabass and sub-contrabass flutes), performer Peter Sheridan has commissioned over seventy compositions for these unique instruments. A native of New York City, Peter has performed and taught in America, England and Australia.

MELBOURNE

Adrian has toured internationally as a shakuhachi soloist with the Australian Art Orchestra and is also the featured soloist for the film soundtrack of ‘Dhakiyarr Versus the King’. He has studied the Dokyoku lineage for thirty years with his teachers including: David Brown, Riley Lee, Andrew MacGregor and Kaoru Kakizakai.

SYDNEY

Emma Sholl began working with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the age of 19 and was awarded the Second Flute post the following year – one of the youngest musicians ever appointed. In 2003 she was appointed Associate Principal Flute. Emma Sholl is senior Lecturer in Flute at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She plays a 14k rose gold Burkart flute.

BRISBANE

First hearing the guitar on his family’s Julian Bream records, Jeremy was inspired to learn the instrument, and that spark carries through in his playing today. Jeremy received his Bachelor of Music from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Jeremy is a passionate educator, and works as a guitar tutor at various educational facilities in the south-east of Brisbane.

PERTH

Joanna is a great advocate of personal development. She completed a Masters of Music in order to create strategies for helping students of all levels to improve and develop their skills. It became increasingly obvious that establishing good habits in beginner flute players was of paramount importance. Her aim is to continue to find more effective and resourceful ways to help students to achieve their objectives.

BRISBANE

Brijette Tubb is a Master of Music graduate from the Queensland Conservatorium and enjoys a busy career as a soloist, orchestral musician and educator. She regularly performs with the Queensland Pops Orchestra and with the Queensland Festival Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent orchestral performances include Disney 100, the New Year’s Eve Gala Concert, Love Actually.

CANBERRA

Sally is Senior Lecturer in Performance at the Australian National University, guest teacher at the Australian National Academy of Music, has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras and since 2014 has been regular Guest Principal of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

PERTH

Since 1987 Michael has held the positions of Principal Piccolo and acting Principal Flute with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Michael is also a Lecturer in Flute at the University of Western Australia Conservatorium of Music and at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, WAPPA.

SYDNEY

Janet was Principal Flute of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for 35 years. This was preceded by the Principal Flute position in the Singapore Symphony. A very active member of the Sydney flute community, she is president of the Flute Society of New South Wales.

MELBOURNE

Yael is a flutist and composer who performs regularly in the Melbourne jazz scene. Following her classical training with Helen Hardy, she graduated from The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music in 2022, where she received the Geoffrey Whitelaw Jazz Recognition Award. Since then, she has continued developing her own projects, with a focus on the music of Brazil.

SYDNEY

Guitarist Giuseppe Zangari performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals and concerts throughout Australia and internationally. He performs regularly as a duo with world renowned flautist Jane Rutter and performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Metropolitan Orchestra. Giuseppe is the Director of Sydney Guitar School, an A.M.E.B. examiner for classical guitar and is a proud R.C. Strings Artist.