Academy of Melbourne
The Academy of Melbourne is a small chamber orchestra formed in 1989 by its artistic director, Brett Kelly, MSO principal trombone.
It boasts within its ranks many of Australia's finest musicians and offers a highly successful annual concert series in the acoustically pleasing Hawthorn Town Hall.
Academy of Melbourne is featured on the following titles
David Joseph Selected Works, Vol. 2
The second volume of David Joseph’s selected works brings together the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Academy of Melbourne, and pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in three substantial late-twentieth-century scores.
Academy of Melbourne also appears on
Classical Allusion: Selected Works by Julian Yu
Julian Yu takes famous pieces from the Western musical tradition and ornaments them in the manner of Chinese folk music, until the familiar becomes something newly made.
Sun Fun and other Disappointments: The music of Michael Easton
This compilation gathers British–Australian composer Michael Easton’s output from 1981 to 1993: solo and duo piano, a flute sonata, a piccolo concerto, song cycles, and four songs from his one-woman show Dorothy Parker Says.
Members of Academy of Melbourne
Lorraine Hook
Lorraine Hook has been a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s First Violin Section since 1986.
Lucinda Moon
Lucinda Moon is an Australian baroque violinist. Trained in Melbourne and The Hague, she is known for period-instrument performance and for leading work with major Australian early-music ensembles.
Rudolf Osadnik
Rudolf Osadnik brings a keen, responsive violin line to chamber works and film scores alike, from the conversational cut and thrust of Peter Tahourdin’s Dialogues to the haunting solos that thread through Cezary Skubiszewski’s orchestral soundtracks.
Deborah Goodall
Deborah has been a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s First Violin section since 1988.
Robert Macindoe
Robert Macindoe is an Australian violinist associated with the Petra String Quartet, the Tasmanian Conservatorium ensemble that made Australian chamber music its focus.
Katharine Brockman
Katharine Brockman is a violist heard on Tall Poppies chamber and orchestral sessions recorded in Melbourne.
Sarah Morse
Sarah Morse is a cellist whose recorded work spans classical concertos and contemporary film music.
Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves is a double bass player recorded in Australian chamber and concerto repertoire, heard both as a featured soloist and in ensemble bass parts.
Rolf Kuhlmann
Rolf Kuhlmann is a bassoonist whose recorded work includes chamber and orchestral repertoire.
Roger Heagney
Roger Heagney has gained an international reputation as a pianist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer, giving recitals in Germany, France, England, Brunei and China, and appearing at festivals and on radio and television in Australia.