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Throughout
the year, Team of Pianists' concerts have the pleasure to present
distinguished guest artists in a range of ensembles, and as soloists.
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Elizabeth
Sellars - violin
Sally-Anne Russell - mezzo-soprano
Peter
Rejto - cello
Derek Jones- flute
Anne Gilby - oboe
Douglas
Macnicol - violin
Phillip
Miechel - clarinet
Jochen
Schubert - guitar
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Schubert - clarinet
Imogen
Manins - cello
Josephine Vains - cello
Cameron
Hill - violin
Guest
Pianists:
Aura
Go - piano
Akira
Imai - piano
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Elizabeth
Sellars
violin
Born in Melbourne, Elizabeth Sellars has enjoyed a career in both
Great Britain and Australia with an emphasis on contemporary, solo
and chamber performance. She made her concerto debut at the age
of 13 and was the winner of the Hepzibah Menuhin and Australian
Musicians' Guild Scholarships.
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Elizabeth
appeared as soloist with the Geelong Chamber Orchestra, the Australian
Pops Orchestra as well as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the
state final of the ABC Young Performer of the Year. With the generous
assistance of the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee and Northcote Trusts,
Elizabeth left Australia in 1985 to study at the Guildhall School
of Music in London with David Takeno. While there she was awarded
the Peskai and Warshaw prizes for solo performance along with the
Guildhall Chamber prize
Under the
guidance of the Takacs and Gabrieli String Quartets, Elizabeth became
a founding member of the Techinski Quartet which went on to become
the recipient of the inaugural John Tunnel Trust and Royal Overseas
League Ensemble Prize and Miller Trophy. The Quartet toured extensively
throughout Great Britain, broadcast for the BBC, played in the Queen
Elizabeth Hall and appeared as group soloist with the Philharmonia
Orchestra.
Elizabeth
also played throughout Europe with the Academy of St Martins in
the Fields and the English Chamber Orchestra.
Now resident
in Australia, Elizabeth has played with Elision, Libra, Ensemble
24, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. She has also lead and
played with many of the Symphony Australia orchestras. In addition
to recording for Naxos, she has broadcast for the ABC on Sunday
Live and at Castlemaine and Port Fairy Festivals.
Her trio
Temenos, who presented their inaugural series in 2001 were third
prize-winners in the 9th Concorso Musicale Internazionale "Riviera
del Conero" in Italy.
Elizabeth was appointed Lecturer in Violin at Monash University
in 2003. She has recently been awarded an Australia Council grant
to commission and record works for solo violin by two prominent
Australian composers.
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Akira
Imai (Japan)
Piano
AKIRA IMAI was born
in Tokyo in 1954. At the invitation of Paul Badura-Skoda, Imai moved
to Vienna at age sixteen, where he studied under Josef Dichler.
Already at age nineteen, he graduated from State University for
Music with high honours. He continued his studies under Professor
Paul Badura-Skoda in Germany and received a Diploma from the Folkwang
Hochschule für Musik, Essen in 1979. Since that time, Mr. Imai
has been a prize-winner in several international competitions and
appeared as soloist and chamber musician in many major concert halls
throughout the world. Numerous critics
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have remarked on Mr. Imai's characteristic blend of European tradition
with Japanese precision. From 1981 to 1995 he served as Professor
of Piano at the State University for Music in Vienna. He is author
of several publications on a wide variety of music subjects and is
editor for several publishing houses. Mr. Imai is one of Japan's most
respected artists and pedagogues and he continues his untiring efforts
in association with the Piano Teachers National Association of Japan.
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Peter
Rejto (USA)
cello
Nationally and internationally
renowned cellist, Peter Rejto, brings a wealth of experience to
the concert stage. Winner of the 1972 international Young Concert
Artists, Inc. award (New York), Rejto has since performed as soloist
throughout North America, Europe, and South America with such orchestras
as the St. Louis Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra,
Filarmonica de Caracas, Venezuela, the California Chamber Symphony
on tour in Hong Kong, and the Rio de Janeiro Symphony, Brazil. In
1992 he presented the world premiere of Gerard Schurmann's cello
concerto "The Gardens of Exile" with the Bournemouth Symphony,
England, broadcast live over the BBC. Rejto has recently appeared
as guest artist with the Tokyo, Bartok, Colorado,
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American, Orion, St.
Petersburg, and Miro Quartets. In July of 2003 he was invited to
be a juror for the 4th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition
in Australia, and the following summer was invited to return as
"visiting artist in residence" at the Victorian College
of the Arts in Melbourne. In 2004 Rejto performed the Beethoven
Triple Concerto in Tejon, Korea, performed at Kumho Hall in Soul,
and gave solo recitals at Peking University, Beijing, China and
in Dalian, China. In 2006 he performed at the Australian Festival
of Chamber Music in Townsville, and was a featured artist at the
national AUSTA conferrence in Brisbane.
As a founding member
of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet he has appeared in the world's
great halls including the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Wigmore, London,
Hamburg's Musikhalle, Santa Cecelia, Rome, and Alice Tully, New
York. Mr. Rejto is regularly presented at numerous music festivals
including Aspen, Bravo Colorado, Kneisel Hall, Santa Fe, La Jolla,
Sitka, Round Top, Texas, and is the founder and Artistic Director
of the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. For many years Mr.
Rejto participated in the touring program of the California Arts
Council, and later that of the Arizona Arts Commission as well as
the Artist in Residence program for the Michigan Orchestra Association.
In 1992 a CD of works
by Martinu, Janacek, Barber, and Kodaly was released by Summit Records,
and recently reissued by Round Top Records. His Silva Classics (England)
recording from 1996 with the Pecs Hungarian Symphony of the concertos
of Gerard Schurmann and Miklos Rozsa received widespread critical
acclaim and is available in the USA on the Equilibrium label. He
has also recorded for Vox, Pickwick, IMP, the Marlboro Recording
Society, and Sony Classical.
Son of the late Hungarian
cellist, Gabor Rejto (former Professor at the Eastman School and
the University of Southern California) most of his study was with
his father. He also participated in master classes with Pablo Casals,
Gregor Piatigorsky, and Pierre Fournier.
Professor Rejto has
held full time positions at several universities in the USA including
Michigan State University, California State University, Northridge,
and the University of Arizona, Tucson. Rejto is Professor of Cello,
Emeritus, at the Oberlin College Music Conservatory. In 2004 Rejto
gave master classes in Korea, and at the Central Conservatory in
Beijing and at the Sichuan Conservatory, China.
An experienced pilot,
Peter Rejto often pilots his own plane - a Mooney 201 - to concert
and festival appearances. In August 2005 Peter Rejto moved to Australia
with his wife, Nicole Divall (violist with the Australia Chamber
Orchestra) and his two children Sofie and Nikolas.
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Sally-Anne
Russell
Mezzo
Soprano
Sally-Anne has performed
in concert recital and on the operatic stage in the Netherlands,
Austria, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan and Canada. At the
invitation of Bruno Weil she will make her American debut at the
2002 Bach Festival in Carmel.
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Roles include Rosina
- Il Barbiere de Seviglia (N.Z.), Mistress Quickly - Falstaff (U.K.),
Lucienne - Die Tote Stadt (Spoleto, Italy), Amastris - Xerses (Köln
Germany), Suzuki - O.A./State Opera of S.A.) and fifteen roles as
a resident principal for the Victoria State Opera.
Sally-Anne appears regularly
with all the Symphony Australia orchestras, Australian Chamber Orchestra,
Australian Bach Ensemble and in all of the major Australian festivals.
Recent performances include Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream
(MSO), Bach - St Mathew Passion (Sydney Phil.), de Falla - El Amor
Brujo (TSO), Copland - In The Beginning (Vancouver), Britten - Spring
Symphony (NZ) and Mozart's Requiem (ASO, MSO, ACO).
Approaching engagements
include CD recordings for ABC Classics, Pergolesi - Stabat Mater
(TQO), Rossini/Handel Arias (MSO), Ino/Juno - Semele (Pinchgut Opera),
Bach B Minor Mass (Melb. Chorale), Mahler - Songs of a Wayfarer
(ASO) and will be a member of the International Jury at the Kathaumixw
Festival in Canada where she will also perform Handel's - Dixit
Dominus, Bach cantata 170.
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Jochen
Schubert
Guitar
Guitarist Jochen Schubert
graduated from the Vienna Academy with further studies at the Mozarteum,
Salzburg under Nicolaus Harnoncourt. He has worked with numerous
orchestras and renowned musicians including the Vienna Philharmonic
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Orchestra and Guitarists
John Williams and Paco Pena. He is active as performer, lecturer,
conductor and Publishing Editor and has recorded for CD, film, radio
and TV. He specializes in solo- and Chambermusic Repertoire and
also accompanies singers etc. Recent Performances include the Australian
premiere of Concertino Mexicano for Guitar & Orchestra
by Ramon Noble , Duo performances with Soprano Merlyn Quaife for
the Lippizaner Shows for audiences in the thousands in all Australian
major cities, Flute & Guitar recitals with Thomas Pinschof.
He maintains a busy teaching schedule at his Ripponlea Guitar Studio
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Derek
Jones
Flute
Derek Jones completed
studies in flute at the Victorian College of the Arts after which
he was awarded German and French Government scholarships.
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His performing career
has included solo performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,
the State Orchestra of Victoria and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,
the latter involving solo appearances in Carnegie Hall, New York,
and the Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. He has also performed as
soloist for ABC Radio in live broadcasts. He has appeared with such
artists as Joan Sutherland, Pinchas Zuckermann, Jane Manning and
Michael Finnissy. His career includes principal flute positions
with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra,
and the State Orchestra of Victoria. Derek has also been invited
to audition for principal flute positions in Europe. He is Lecturer
in Flute at Monash University School of Music - Conservatorium and
teaches at the Victorian College of the Arts and the University
of Melbourne Faculty of Music.
His repertoire consists of music from the Baroque period including
all of Bach's flute works, from the classical period including works
of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, the romantic period with such composers
as Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Faure and Debussy, music from the
twentieth century including the sonatas of Prokofiev, Poulenc, Martinu
and Hindemith and works of more contemporary composers such as Berio,
Varese, Maxwell Davies, Fukushima and Boyd.
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Robert
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graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1979, having studied
with Isobel Carter-Stockigt and then returned to work with Phillip
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From 1983 to 1984, he
studied clarinet with James Campbell at the Royal Conservatory of
Music, Toronto, Canada and with James Morton (Principal Clarinet,
National Arts Orchestra of Canada). He then went on to study with
Larry Combs (Principal Clarinet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
In 1988 he was appointed
Principal Clarinet with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Japan,
under Hiroyuki Iwaki, a position he held until his return to Australia
in 1996.
During this period,
he also performed as guest clarinet with the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo
and guest principal clarinet with the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra.
In 1991, he was a finalist in the Tokyo International Clarinet Competition.
Active as a chamber musician and soloist, he appeared frequently
as soloist with Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and in performances
with the Ebony Ensemble, which he formed in 1993. The same year
Japanese composer Nishibe wrote a clarinet quintet for him and a
particular highlight of his international career has been participation
in the Affinis Music Festival, an event held in Japan, which brings
together professionals from around the world.
He has recorded both
standard and contemporary orchestral repertoire with the Orchestra
Ensemble Kanazawa on Deutche Gramophone, Victor and Sony labels.
In Melbourne Robert performs regularly with the Melbourne Symphony
and Orchestra Victoria, and has appeared in both the Melbourne International
Festival and in live broadcast for the ABC. He is currently Lecturer
in Woodwind at the Victorian College of the Arts.
In 1997 he formed Ensemblinx
(woodwind trio & string trio) which aims to promote closer ties
with Asia, especially Japan, through commissioning of new music
from the region, to be performed throughout the region together
with the standard repertoire for winds & strings. Mark Pollard
and Julian Yu have both recently composed clarinet quintets for
Robert and Ensemblinx. The group has recorded Julian Yu's chamber
music with assistance from the Australia Council.
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Douglas
Macnicol
Violin
Douglas Macnicol grew
up in Canberra and had his first violin tuition from Josette Morgan
and Vincent Edwards. He won numerous Eisteddfods and awards as a
boy, including third prize in the National Youth Concerto Competition.
He studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule with Igor Ozim, and then
travelled to Oslo for further study with Leif Jørgensen.
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While in Norway he
played in the Oslo Philharmonic,
Bergen Philharmonic, and Stavanger Symphony Orchestras, and performed
the Vieuxtemps Concerto no.5 with the conservatorium orchestra.
Following his return to Canberra, Douglas completed a degree in
History and German Literature at The Australian National University
before returning to musical studies at a graduate level, studying
with Tor Frømyhr, completing his Masters degree in 2001.
Douglas performs regularly
as a member of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and as concertmaster
of the Canberra Choral Society Orchestra. He is an experienced recitalist
whose repertoire stretches from Bach to the present day, with a
special focus on the period from 1870 to 1950. As well as works
from the standard European composers, Douglas has given themed recitals
of Australian and American works. He currently teaches in Canberra
and concertizes around the East of Australia as well as abroad.
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Cameron
Hill
Violin
Cameron is a 22 year-old
violinist who has just completed his Bachelor of Music (Honours)
at the University of Melbourne studying with William Hennessy. He
topped the year by receiving the highest mark across all instruments
in 2005 and was subsequently awarded the Catherine Grace McWilliam
Prize. At five, he commenced violin studies with Cathryn Bills,
progressing
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through
the Trinity College of London
music examination system. During his time at Balwyn High School he
completed Music: Solo Performance (V.C.E.), achieving a perfect score
and topping the state in 2000. The same year he was awarded the Licentiate
(L.mus.A) with Distinction, on viola. In 2001 Cameron toured Europe
with the Australian Youth Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir
Ashkenazy, performing in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Since commencing the
B.Mus at Melbourne in 2002, he has appeared as Concertmaster of
the Orchestra (2003-05), been a soloist and founding member of the
Melbourne University Chamber Orchestra (2001-), was the representative
string player for a concerto with orchestra in 2005 and has been
heavily involved in chamber music. University awards include:
The Lady Turner Exhibition, the William Bardsley Award (2002-4),
the C.D. Hume Violin Scholarship, the Ormond Exhibition and the
2003 Bertha Jorgensen Award, given to the violinist with the top
mark at the faculty. At the end of 2004, Cameron received the highest
mark across all instruments in the 3rd year. At the end of 2005
Cameron topped the Final year, receiving the McWilliam and Peg Oldfield
Prizes.
He has also won several of the Universities competitions, including
the 2003 Mozart Concerto Competition and the 2004 J.S. Bach Prize
for Strings, the Chamber Music Competition in 2003 & 2005, and
the 2004 Faculty Concerto Competition, playing the Sibelius Violin
Concerto.
Other successes include
winning the Musical Society of Victoria's Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial
Award and being the string finalist in the 3MBS Performer of the
Year in 2002 & 2005. In 2005 Cameron was one of 2 violinists
selected nationally for the Australian Youth Orchestra String Quartet
and was also a state string finalist in Symphony Australia's Young
Performer Award. Cameron has recently won the 2005 Dorcas McClean
Violin Scholarship, Australia's leading violin competition.
Cameron performs regularly
with the Australia Pro Arte Orchestra and has been broadcast as
a soloist on both ABC Classic FM and 3MBS FM. In 2006 Cameron commences
study on a full scholarship at the Australian National Academy of
Music, learning with Alice Waten.
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Phillip
Miechel
Clarinet
Phillip Miechel is well
known to concert audiences as a member of the Melbourne Symphony
Orchestra which he joined in 1962, becoming Principal in 1964 in
which role he continued until his retirement in 2000. He has also
been in great demand as a soloist and chamber musician and has been
constantly noted in the press for his exceptionally beautiful tone
and matchless phrasing.
He obtained his Bachelor
of Music and Master of Music degrees at the University of Melbourne
and was the 1963 Commonwealth winner of the ABC Concerto and Vocal
Competition. In 1967 he studied further as a Churchill Fellow with
Professor Jost Michaels in Germany and with other leading clarinettists
in London.
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Phillip has appeared as
soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions,
including the Montreal Expo '67 and has toured with them to various
countries including the United States, Canada and Japan.
In 1975 he undertook
a duo-recital tour with the pianist Brian Chapman, visiting centres
in Mexico City and the United States as well as performing Mozart's
Clarinet Quintet with the Rowe Quartet. Phillip is a founding member
of the Australian Chamber Soloists with whom he currently appears
in concert at BMW Edge Recital Hall, Federation Square. He is active
as a teacher, both privately and at the Victorian College of the
Arts, the University of Melbourne, Monash University and various
secondary colleges in Melbourne.
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Josephine
Vains
Cello
Josephine was born in
Melbourne. After winning the inaugural National Chamber Music Competition
with Trio 3.0.3, she worked and studied in Europe for five years,
returning in 2002. She counts as her seminal influences Hatto Beyerle
(Alban Berg Quartet), Walter Levin (La Salle Quartet) and Tilmann
Wick (Hannover Hochschule - cello), and it was with these masters
that her main classical training focused. She has worked with myriad
artists in Europe and Australia on diverse projects including, piano
trio, clarinet trio, piano
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quartet/quintet
repertoire, contemporary and electronic music and argentine tango
music. Josephine has performed throughout Australia, Europe and Asia,
also competing at an international level (Osaka and Melbourne International
Chamber Music Competitions). She has been a regular performer in the
Melbourne, Sydney, Castlemaine and Canberra Festivals, Hannover Brahms
and Schumann Festivals, and broadcasts regularly on ABC FM and 3MBS
FM. Josephine is a regular performer around Melbourne and enjoys teaching
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Imogen
Manins
Cello
Imogen graduated with a Bachelor of Music from Monash University in
1999, going on to complete the Honours degree in Performance at the
Victorian College of the Arts in 2000 achieving first class honours.
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At fourteen years of
age she was granted a scholarship to study at the Meadowmount School
of Music with Tanya Carey and since has become a member of the Golden
Key Honour Society, a winner of the Nelly Apt Study Grant in 1997
and has three times won the Mazda Prize for excellence in music.
Imogen has performed as soloist in the Rigg Estate Recital Series,
Monash Lunchtime Concert series and as concerto soloist with Monash
Sinfonia. Recently Imogen has given performances for the Bendigo
City Council as part of the popular 'Summer in the Park' concert
series, and with the Team of Pianists at Rippon Lea, Labassa, Glenfern
and at the Eastbank centre, Shepparton.
In 2002 Imogen was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
and is currently in her final year of the Master of Music Performance
at the Victorian College of the Arts, studying with Nelson Cooke.
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Anne
Gilby
Oboe
Anne Gilby is one of
Australia's best known oboists and teachers. She studied in Europe
with Leon Goossens, Helmut Winschermann and Maurice Bourgue and
has been Principal Oboist of the Städtischesorchester Bremerhaven,
the Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
as well as appearing as principal oboe with all the Symphony Australia
(formerly ABC) orchestras. She appears as principal oboist with
the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra.
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For four years from
1988 Anne lectured at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music
and then for six years was the Head of Woodwind of the Victorian
College of the Arts. She is currently a lecturer in the Monash University
Department of Music and Co-ordinator of the Monash University Music
Enhancement Programme.
Anne performs regularly
as soloist and chamber musician on the modern and early oboes. She
is particularly interested in the development of young musicians.
She developed and coordinated the 1998 Junior Academy Programme
for the Australian National Academy of Music. Anne is President
of the Australasian Double Reed Society, oboe advisor for the Victorian
AMEB and chairs the Artistic Committee of the Australian Youth Orchestra
Ltd.
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Aura
Go
Piano
Aura Go has been the
recipient of many awards ands cholarships. In 2002 and 2003 she
was a National Keyboard Finalist in Symphony Australia's Young Performers
Awards. She was the winner of the 5th Yamaha Australian Youth Piano
Competition in Sydney in 2001, and the Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial
Award and Paul Morawetz Scholarship in 2000.In 2001 she was selected
to participate in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Young Artists
Program, recording Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. Her performances
ave been broadcast on both ABC Classic FM and 3MBS FMradio, and
in 2002 she recorded a solo
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recital
for the ABC's Young Australia program. In 2004, she was the winner
of the Marion Isobel Thomas Concerto Award and performed the Beethoven
4th Piano Concerto with the VCA Symphony Orchestra.
She has given the Australian
Premiere performances of the Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 of Einojuhani
Rautavaara with the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras in
2002 and 2003. She has also performed the solo piano music of Rautavaara
(including the Australian Premiere of his second Piano Sonata "Fire
Sermon" in 2001), Sofia Gubaidulina, and Galina Ustvolskaya,
and Australian composers including Ross Edwards, Helen Gifford,
Anne Boyd, Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Elena Kats-Chernin.
Aura is currently studying
for the Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the Victorian College
of the Arts, where she was awarded the Agnes Robertson Scholarship
for the duration of her course. She has also been offered a scholarship
place at the Australian National Academy of Music for the year 2005.
She studies piano under Professor Max Cooke.
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