2004 Finalists

KATHERINE LUKEY
Katherine completed her studies in Austria in January 2006. She is currently a member of the Postgraduate Performance Program at the Australian National Academy of Music, studying with Alice Waten. Katherine has continued performing with the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra which included a tour of Europe & South America in late 2005, and attending the Verbier Festival and Academy in 2006. In November 2006 she toured Europe, Asia and Australia with the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Katherine also performs with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

In the past 12 months Katherine has continued studying and performing at the Australian National Academy of Music. She is now performing with the Acacia Piano Trio who were winners of the Musica Viva Award for Chamber Music at the 2007 McDonald's Performing Arts Challenge. Katherine toured the United States and Europe with the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and Charles Dutoit in November 2007 and in 2008 she has performed as soloist with the Darwin Symphony and Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra.
August 2008

ANYA MUSTON
Anya is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium where she studied with Wanda Wilkomirska. She is a regular guest musician with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and has been Concertmaster of the SBS Youth Orchestra for the past 4 years. She has been the soloist with that orchestra on a number of occasions performing the Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mendelsohn and Brahms concertos. In 2005 she was the soloist with the SBS Orchestra on its tour of Eastern Europe performing the Dvorak Concerto to audiences in Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and at the Dvorak Festival in the Czech Republic. In 2006 she was the winner of the North Queensland Concerto Competition playing Shostakovich Concerto No 1. She performed that concerto with the Barrier Reef Orchestra in May 2007. She was the recipient of a BBM travelling scholarship for study in London in 2006/2007 and has now been awarded the prestigious Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music post graduate scholarship for her Masters degree in performance. In September 2007 she commenced study with Professor Yair Kless at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She has recently been accepted into Britain’s oldest orchestra, the Halle, as part of its professional access scheme and her quartet has been invited to perform in early 2008 at the Mozart Festival in England.
November 2007

JENNEN NGIAU-KENG
See note for 2006

RICHARD POLLETT
Richard is doing a Masters degree with Michele Walsh at the University of Queensland in 2007. In June 2007 he performed the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in the String Finals of the 2007 Young Performer’s awards. He was a string finalist in the same competition in 2006, playing the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No.1 with the Queensland Orchestra. He won the 2007 Llewellyn Memorial Fund’s major award to study overseas and is currently studying in Lugarno Switzerland with the Italian maestro, Massimo Quarta.
April 2008