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1999 Finalists GU CHEN (winner) Chen was
a permanent member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 2001-2007
and, since September 2002, appeared as a guest concertmaster with
the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. His contract as Associate Concertmaster
with the Sydney Symphony has ended and he continues to hold the
position of tutti 1st violin with the orchestra. He has been Concertmaster with the newly-established
Macao Orchestra since May 2007 and will be playing chamber music with pinchas Zuckerman in May 2008.. SUN ROH Sun finished her
Masters at the Sydney Conservatorium in August 2006. She is performing
as a soloist and in chamber music. MONICA GROSMAN (now Naselow) Monica continues
to live in Amsterdam and play with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
and also with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra . She has been
with this orchestra since December 2002. She is also involved with the Orchestral Academy program, mentoring students for periods of time as they enjoy some much sought after work experience. On a personal level, Monica married recently and is expecting her first child in August.
ERICA KENNEDY Erica is a Masters graduate of The Faculty of Music, The University of Melbourne where she studied with William Hennessy. As a soloist she has won numerous awards, recorded for national television and radio and performed solos with various Australian orchestras including the Tasmanian Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, the Soirées Musicales Orchestra and the Stonnington Symphony. As first violinist with the Melbourne-based Flinders Quartet, she performs regularly throughout Australia and overseas. With the quartet she has undertaken two residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, recording cds and performing with such artists as Menahem Pressler and Geoff Nuttal, as well as one residency at the International Musicians’ Seminar in Prussia Cove (UK). The quartet has also toured the UK along with performances in Geneva and Stockholm. On top of their annual subscription series in Melbourne, 2008 will see the group extend this series to Sydney and Adelaide, as well as concerts in the Yarra Valley, Macedon and Singapore. Erica has studied in the USA with the Vermeer Quartet and the Emerson Quartet, in Switzerland with Hatto Beyerle and Gabor Takacs-Nagy, in London with David Takeno, in Australia with the Goldner String Quartet and the Melba Quartet and as a scholarship holder at the Australian National Academy of Music. She has worked with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as acting associate concertmaster/ concertmaster and with Orchestra Victoria as guest concertmaster. She is also a member of the Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne. |