Michael Kieran Harvey
Australian pianist and composer Dr Michael Kieran Harvey FAHA is among the foremost interpreters of contemporary piano music of his generation. A champion of Australian music, he regularly commissions new work and has performed with the country’s leading contemporary ensembles and orchestras.
Tony Gould
Pianist and composer Tony Gould is one of Australia’s most respected musicians. His career has spanned jazz and other improvisatory forms as well as traditional and contemporary classical, and for decades he has stood at the forefront of music education in Australia.
Douglas Lawrence
Melbourne organist Douglas Lawrence is Director of Music at The Scots' Church and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. He founded the Choir of Ormond College and directed it from 1982 to 2006.
Elizabeth Anderson
Elizabeth Anderson has performed on eleven international concert tours to Europe, Japan and Singapore, and is a regular guest lecturer and performer at universities and music schools throughout Australia.
Graeme Lyall
Graeme Lyall is widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz saxophone players and arrangers Australia has produced. He performs, writes, arranges and teaches, and is Artistic Director of the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra and musical director of its Composers Ensemble.
George Dreyfus
One of Australia's best-known composers, especially for the theme from the television series Rush, George Dreyfus was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at Victorian Parliament House for services to music.
John Sangster
John Sangster (1928–1995) was an Australian jazz composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist whose work stretched from traditional jazz and film scores to large-scale suites of uncommon range, humour and colour.
Julian Yu
Julian Yu is a multi-award-winning Australian composer whose musical language is imbued with elegance and expressiveness, both enhanced by impeccable craft and a special attention to detail.
Peter Sculthorpe
Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014) was a Tasmanian-born composer whose orchestral and chamber music drew the Australian landscape, neighbouring Asian traditions and Indigenous materials into a clear, personal language. He wrote extensively for strings, piano and voice.
Amir Farid
Amir Farid has been described as a highly creative musician – a pianist of great intelligence and integrity who brings strong musical substance to all that he does, imbuing it with his own experience and understanding, and who distinguishes himself for all the right reasons.
Ronald Farren-Price
Ronald Farren-Price is an Australian concert pianist of rare artistry, sensitivity and virtuosity. Clarity of expression and firmness of touch are the hallmarks of his style, which brings bold nobility to each performance.
Ian Holtham
Professor Ian Holtham is one of Australia’s most distinguished and highly regarded pianists and pedagogues. His performances of the great Classical and Romantic repertoire have drawn packed houses and strong critical acclaim for many years.
Zoe Knighton
Zoe Knighton is at the forefront of a new generation of performers intent on forging an innovative path for the enjoyment of classical music. A founding member of Flinders Quartet, she is a leading Melbourne cellist and chamber musician.
Derek Jones
Derek Jones has enjoyed an extensive performing career throughout Australia, Europe, the USA and Asia. Solo appearances include the Melbourne Symphony, the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the last of these taking him to Carnegie Hall, New York.
Peter Sheridan
Peter Sheridan is a low-flute specialist whose bass, contrabass, subcontrabass and hyperbass playing has opened a new sound world through more than seventy commissions and a substantial body of recordings.
Danaë Killian
Dr Danaë Killian is an Australian pianist whose poetry-infused performances are known for intense originality and expressive interpretive power. Her repertoire spans the complete solo piano music of the Expressionist Second Viennese School, major polyphonic Bach, and a wealth of Australian works.
Geoffrey Tozer
Geoffrey Tozer (1954–2009) was an Australian concert pianist and composer of the first rank, gifted with perfect pitch, a boundless musical memory, and the ability to improvise, transpose instantly into any key, or reduce an orchestral score at sight.
David Joseph
David Joseph (b. 1954) is a Melbourne-born Australian composer whose orchestral and chamber music is marked by vivid colour, lyric invention and a keen ear for texture. His catalogue ranges from concertos and string studies to ballet scenes and intimate chamber scores.
Judith Lambden
Distinguished Australian pianist and harpsichordist Judith Lambden has recorded many works on the Move label, among them Schubert’s great B-flat Sonata, Bach’s English and French Suites, the six Partitas, and a wide span of other J.S. Bach keyboard works.
Cameron Roberts
Cameron Roberts is an Australian international concert pianist, renowned coach and author on the application of science to elite musical performance, and a specialist anaesthetist.
Amy Johansen
Amy Johansen is the Sydney University Organist and an Honorary Carillonist at the University. Although her repertoire spans all periods, it was her first CD, The Embrace of Fire, devoted to the organ music of Naji Hakim, that first brought her international acclaim.
Ronald Sharp
Ronald Sharp (1929-2021) was a self-taught Australian organ builder whose most notable instruments were the organ at the Sydney Opera House (1979), the chapel at Ormond College, Melbourne (1974) and Perth Concert Hall (1976) as well as a number of others. He specialised in mechanical, tracker action instruments in the baroque tradition, but using modern materials.
Lachlan Brown
Lachlan Brown is an Australian composer of Impressionist and Romantic music, shaped by Mahler, Debussy and Delius. He writes especially for harp, soprano, chamber ensembles and wordless choir.
Claire Edwardes
Claire Edwardes is an internationally acclaimed percussion soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Ensemble Offspring. The press has described her as a ‘sorceress of percussion’, performing with ‘spellbinding intensity’ and ‘graceful virtuosity’.
Rosemary Hodgson
Australian lutenist, Rosemary Hodgson maintains a vibrant career as soloist and chamber musician. Known for her remarkable sensitivity and technique, she has established an international reputation for outstanding concert presentations and solo lute recordings, of captivating subtlety.
Felicity Wilcox
Felicity Wilcox is an ARIA and AACTA-nominated Australian composer whose output spans concert music, film and screen scores, songwriting and improvisation, and music for theatre, installation, live events and radio.
Chris Caldwell
Chris is well known in the UK as a freelance multi-instrumentalist and member of the celebrated Delta Saxophone Quartet, now in its fifth decade.
Jangoo Chapkhana
Jangoo Chapkhana is an all-round musician, including being an organist who has performed many other countries was well as in Australia.
Susie Hodder-Williams
Since studying flute at the Royal Northern College of Music and reading English at the University of York, Susie works as a soloist and freelance musician with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and ballet companies. In those settings she demonstrates a natural versality in performing masterfully when playing the Concert, Alto, Bass Flutes and Piccolo.
Daniel Pini
Daniel is an Australian cellist and conductor based between Paris and Sydney. He has performed internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and with orchestras around the world including Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra.