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ACMF – Albury Chamber Music Festival
Sally-Anne Russell – Artistic Director and Mezzo Soprano
Sally-Anne Russell is a multi-award-winning mezzo soprano and has performed on the concert platform and operatic stage in twenty five countries and discography in over 40 CD’s /DVD’s on ABC Classics, CHANDOS, MOVE, Toccata UK, NAXOS and DECCA labels, including her solo aria disc “Enchanting” with The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Her awards include an ARIA for Pergolesi Stabat Mater with Sara Macliver, and nominations for Young Australian of the Year, Young Achiever of the Year, Green Room and Helpmann Awards.
Sally-Anne has over 80 operatic roles in her repertoire and enjoys working with all the major Opera Companies, Symphony Orchestras, Musica Viva, Australian String Quartet, ANAM, Peninsula Summer Festival and all major Festivals in Australia. International highlights include The Spoleto Festival in Italy, Washington National Opera (DC), a ten-year association as alto soloist with the Carmel Bach Festival in California. Also recitals in Vienna, Singapore, London, Scotland, and Amsterdam. Recent projects include Hermia in Brittens A Midsummer Nights Dream for Adelaide Festival, Wagners Ring Cycle with Melbourne Opera in Bendigo, Strauss’s Elektra for Victorian Opera, Dido and Aeneas in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Mahler Das Lied von der Erde for Canberra Festival and Handel’s Messiah with Melbourne Symphony. Concerts with Adelaide Baroque, Sydney Philharmonia, Melbourne Bach Choir, and Beethoven 9th Symphony with Auckland Philharmonic and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras.
Sally-Anne is a member of the international artistic council for the Kathaumixw Festival in Canada and chair of The Australian chapter for the Belvedere International Singing competition in Vienna.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Mario Dobernig – Artistic Director, Conductor & Percussionist
On a quest to make a difference, innovator Mario Dobernig is one of the most inspiring music makers of his generation. Mario is Artistic Director and Conductor in Chief for the Art of Sound Orchestra, the Victoria Chorale and co-artistic director of the Albury Chamber Music Festival.
He has conducted among others the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Kapfenberger Symphoniker, the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra’s YMS program, Orchestra Capella Calliope and at prestigious venues in Europe, the Middle East, China and Australia.
Discography includes online releases for ABC Classics and being a featured guest on various radio programs around the globe. He was awarded his PhD in 2014, holds Master degrees in Percussion, Conducting and Musicology as well as Bachelor Degrees in Percussion and Music Education. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
Mario has produced a number of highly successful festivals in multiple cities and countries (Australia, Austria, China, Germany, Italy) and also organizes unique cultural exchange tours for cultural groups between Australia and his other native Austria. Mario enjoys conversations in English, German, French and Italian, and has a keen interest in geopolitics.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Daniel de Borah – Pianist
Daniel de Borah is recognised as one of Australia’s foremost musicians, consistently praised for the grace, finesse and imaginative intelligence of his performances. His busy performance schedule finds him equally at home as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.
Since his prize-winning appearances at the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, Daniel has given recitals on four continents and toured extensively throughout the United Kingdom and Australia. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with the English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, Tasmanian, Adelaide and Auckland Symphony Orchestras.
An avid chamber musician, Daniel has appeared alongside artists including Vadim Gluzman, Andrew Haveron, Dale Barltrop, Kristian Winther, Baiba Skride, Li-Wei Qin, Nicolas Altstaedt, Umberto Clerici, the Quiroga, Navarra and Australian String Quartets, and singers Roderick Williams, Steve Davislim and Andrew Goodwin. He has appeared at festivals including the Musica Viva Festival, Adelaide Festival, Huntington Estate Music Festival, Bendigo Chamber Music Festival and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Since 2017, Daniel has been a founding member and pianist of Ensemble Q.
During his studies Daniel won numerous awards including 3rd Prizes at the 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition, the 2001 Tbilisi International Piano Competition and the 2000 Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in Poland. In 2005 he was selected for representation by the Young Classical Artists Trust, London. Daniel is also a past winner of the Australian National Piano Award and the Royal Overseas League Piano Award in London.
Born in Melbourne in 1981, Daniel studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music, London. His teachers have included Zsuzsa Esztó, Mira Jevtic, Nina Seryogina, Tatyana Sarkissova and Alexander Satz. Daniel now lives in Brisbane where he serves as Associate Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Peter Guy – Organ
A recent graduate with Masters and Post-Masters qualifications at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music, Hungary, Peter returned to Australia in 2025 to continue his career as an organist, choir director and teacher. Prior to commencing study in Hungary, he was for 15 years Organist and Master of the Choristers at Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle (Australia), and is currently Director of Music at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Fitzroy.
Peter studied organ and choral conducting under Philip Matthias at the University of Newcastle, during which he received many awards and prizes including the Vice Chancellor’s Honours Scholarship and an Australian Post Graduate Award, and he currently holds the Sarolta Scholarship of the International Kodaly Society. Pursuing his broad range of interests, Peter was awarded a Master of Theological Studies from the University of Divinity in 2017.
As an educator, Peter has been employed as a sessional lecturer and tutor in harmony, aural and organ at the University of Newcastle. He was a foundation teacher in the ACT Organ School (2004-2007) and is a foundation director of the Newcastle Cathedral College of Music. Between 2019 and 2022 he began his Kodaly journey with the Australian Kodaly Certificate (Secondary Education).
Peter is an active organ recitalist and has performed regularly in many Australian capital cities and regional areas. He was a national keyboard finalist in the 2003 Symphony Australia Young Performer’s Award, where he performed Poulenc’s Organ Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Rumon Gamba. He has performed concertos with the Canberra Youth Orchestra and Christ Church Camerata, and has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
As a choral director, Peter has held numerous church music positions in Canberra, Sydney and Newcastle. He is frequently called on as a guest director with local choirs. In addition to guest appearances as conductor with the Newcastle Music Festival and Newcastle University Choir, Peter has conducted multiple performances of Handel’s Messiah with Christ Church Cathedral Choir, and has worked with soloists of national and international repute.
Peter has toured internationally as an organist and choral director, including performances in the USA for the Organ Historical Society. He toured as an accompanist for the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir in 2002 to the UK and France, where he performed in venues including St Paul’s Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, London, and Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. In 2004 he joined the same choir on tour in South Korea. In 2016 he directed the choir of Christ Church Cathedral on its inaugural tour to the UK, singing in Southwark and Norwich Cathedrals.
Peter has recorded two solo Organ CDs, and features as an accompanist and soloist on recordings by Organ Historical Trust of Australia, The University of Newcastle Chamber Choir, Newcastle University Choir, and Christ Church Camerata, in addition to directing Christ Church Cathedral Choir for their recording O for the wings… He has been broadcast on multiple radio stations, including Sunday Live performances on ABC Classic FM, Sunday Half Hour programme on BBC Radio 3, 2MBS FM (Sydney), 3MBS FM (Melbourne) and has appeared on radio and TV in South Korea.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Molly Kadarauch – Cello
Molly Kadarauch is one of Australia’s pre-eminent and versatile cellists who has concertized at leading venues all over the world as well as within Australia as a former member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and as a chamber musician, soloist, and symphony orchestral player.
In 2010 she founded Sutherland Trio together with Elizabeth Sellars (violin) and Caroline Almonte (piano) who have performed frequently at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Australian Digital Concert Hall, Port fairy Spring Music Festival and other regional touring venues with Musica Viva as well as recording for ABC Classic FM. In April 2025 they are honoured to be performing at Government House as part of the Governor’s Performance Series.
As a young student Molly was a recipient of multiple awards and prizes, her playing hailed as “brilliant and passionate with mature artistry, style depth and beauty”. (Times tribune and Independent cost Observer, CA)
She completed her undergraduate tertiary studies at the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) with Laurence Lesser (former student of Piatigorsky) followed by a 2-year Fulbright Scholarship to Berlin where she continued under the guidance of Wolfgang Boettcher (former principal cellist of the Berlin Phil).
While based in Berlin for 5 years she enjoyed a successful and varied free-lancing career often performing in the Berliner Philharmonie with various ensembles and with her prize-winning string quartet from the Hochschule.
Between 1996 – 2004 Molly joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra as an associate principal cellist and core member until she relocated to Melbourne to continue concertizing and teaching where she made her Melbourne recital debut with Benjamin Martin at The Edge, Federation Square.
Molly’s multi-faceted career has included performing as guest principal with many of the major Australian and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras including the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonic. Chamber music festival appearances include Huntington, Port Fairy, Peninsula, Music by the Springs (Hepburn Springs), Adelaide and the Melbourne International Cello Festival.
As a soloist she has concertized in France, England, USA and Germany and has performed concertos with the Palo Alto Chamber orchestra, Freemont Symphony Orchestra (CA), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Heidelberg Symphony orchestra, Melbourne Musicians, and Orchestra 21.
She performs on an instrument by Pietro Antonio Testore.
Molly is also a passionate educator and has over the past 20 years enjoyed working with students from various ages and abilities as well as at the Melbourne Conservatorium, Queensland Conservatorium (Griffith University), Australian National Academy of Music, the ACO Academy, the Australian Youth Orchestra, Melbourne Youth Orchestra and with Sutherland Trio as a mentor group for young “Strike a Chord” competition prize-winners.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Greta Claringbould – Soprano
Canberra based, Greta Claringbould is a Baroque Soprano at freelance, with extensive performance experience as a soprano soloist of principally baroque oratorio and cantata. Her vocal timbre combines purity and clarity combined with warmth and richness. Her fluent execution of florid baroque coloratura is renowned. Described recently (March 2024) in the Canberra City News – “Claringbould, has a beautiful voice of remarkable purity and precision.”
Greta holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Viola Performance, an AMusA in voice, and an ATCL in Violin Performance. Greta was formerly: a professional orchestral violist, leader of the Violas in the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra, chorister with the Wellington Cathedral Choir, Director of the iconic Canberra Children’s Choir, and Head of Choirs at Canberra Girl’s Grammar School. Currently Greta is Principal Soprano Soloist with the NZ Barok, Canberra Bach Ensemble, Ensemble 415@415, and Ensemble Adhoc Baroque and is also a private vocal coach.
Notable performances include the antipodean premier of Brunetti’s 1764 Stabat Mater with Adhoc Baroque, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah with Canberra Choral Society, Handel Il giarndino D’amore with Adhoc Baroque at the Canonwindra Baroque Festival opening, Bach’s St John Passion with Canberra Bach Ensemble, Handel’s Messiah with NZ Barok, Vivaldi’s, Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera with NZ Barok at their 2024 20th anniversary concert series and soprano soloist at the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival in various chorale cantatas.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Limestone Consort
Limestone Consort is a chamber ensemble based in Canberra, which formed in 2012 out of a desire to perform baroque music. They enjoy performing all periods of music and our players are both professional and semi-professional musicians.
Lauren Davis – violin
Michelle Higgs – violin
Clara Teniswood – cello
Ariana Odermatt – harpsichord
Greta Claringbould – soprano
Maartje Sevenster – alto
Lauren Davis received her Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin College Conservatory, her Master of Music from Louisiana State University, and her PhD in Violin Pedagogy from The Australian National University. She has played with numerous orchestras in the United States including the Canton Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Louisiana Sinfonietta, Acadiana Symphony, the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra.
She is currently the leader of the Limestone Consort and a member of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, the Canberra Bach Ensemble, and Queensland Baroque. She is a co-founder of StringProject which holds string orchestra weekends for adult amateur string players. An avid chamber musician, she has played in a number of ensembles including the Riverina Chamber Orchestra, the Riverina Trio, the Valcour String Quartet, the Aurora Trio, and the Brioso String Quartet. She has been teaching violin for a number of years both privately and at such institutions as Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Music for Everyone, Orana School, Radford College, and at the Australian National University in their Pre-Tertiary and Colourstrings programs. Lauren also currently teaches at the Riverina Conservatorium in Wagga Wagga, Australia.
Clara Teniswood is a Canberra-based cellist.
She studied with David Pereira and received her LMusA in 2013.
She has performed at the Canberra International Music Festival and attended the Australian International Symphony Orchestra Institute.
On baroque cello, she has participated in workshops and programmes with ensembles and musicians including Ironwood, the Sydney Baroque Festival, Masaaki Suzuki and Juilliard415, and Van Diemen’s Band.
Clara is principal cellist of the Canberra Bach Ensemble (since 2019) and performs with the Limestone Consort and The Southern Concert.
Ariana Odermatt holds a Master of Philosophy from the ANU School of Music and BA Honours in Performance Music (Harpsichord) from the University of Waikato.
Her achievements overseas include performing at the 2011 Venice Biennale, at Handel’s House in London and with NZ Barok.
Locally, Ariana has played with Canberra Symphony Orchestra, the Limestone Consort, the Canberra Bach Ensemble, Musica da Camera, Handel in the Theatre, and in the Canberra International Music Festival.
Aaron Reichelt is an Australian oboist who performs on both modern and historical oboes across orchestral, chamber, and music theatre repertoire. Drawn to a wide range of musical styles and settings, his work reflects a particular love of the oboe’s many voices, from Bach obbligati to large-scale orchestral and theatrical performance.
He is principal oboe with Canberra Bach Ensemble, where he has led the oboes since 2016. Aaron has worked with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra in major choral-orchestral repertoire on both modern and historical oboes, including Bach’s St John Passion, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Aaron lives in Canberra with his collection of oboes and his cat, Max, and is delighted to be part of the Albury Chamber Music Festival.
Dutch‐born Maartje Sevenster is alto soloist with the Canberra Bach Ensemble and performs regularly with Canberra‐based groups such as Blocksounds, the Limestone consort and Coro. She performed with CBE at the 2024 Bachfest in Leipzig, Germany, and several times at the Baroquefest in Canowindra, most recently as a soloist with the Bach Akademie Australia.
With ensemble Adhoc Baroque, co-founded with soprano Greta Claringbould and harpsichordist Peter Young, Maartje performed many lesser‐known pieces of the baroque repertoire in a one‐per‐part setting to great acclaim, including several Australian premieres. Other performances include soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Magnificat, J.C.Bach’s Lamento, Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and both of his settings of the Nisi Dominus, Copland’s In the beginning, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and David Cassat’s Die Hand, for mezzosoprano, viola, cello, flute and clarinet.
Maartje has worked with many coaches over the years, amongst others Peter Kooij, Evelyn Tubb, Louise Page and Roberta Alexander. She is creative director of the Gundaroo Wander Concert and runs a community singing group in her local village.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Andrew Fysh – Baritone
Originally from Hobart, where joined the city’s Anglican cathedral choir as a treble five decades ago, Andrew has considerable experience as soloist and consort singer. Church music has featured throughout Andrew’s musical journey, with the choirs of Trinity College Melbourne, St George’s Cathedral Perth, and the London Oratory. Now based in Canberra, Andrew sings regularly with the choirs of St James’ Church and St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, and has appeared as soloist with all of the national capital’s major choirs in works including Handel Israel in Egypt, Handel Messiah, Haydn Nelson Mass, Mozart Requiem, and Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem.
Andrew’s particular interest lies in Early music, nurtured through many years with Melbourne’s Ensemble Gombert, directed by John O’Donnell, with whom he toured Europe (thrice) and North America. He was a regular guest artist with The Song Company under Roland Peelman, including a critically acclaimed world-premiere recording of Schütz Der Schwanengesang in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 1996. More recently, Andrew has turned his interest to production of high-quality performing editions of little-known Renaissance polyphony, with a particular focus on the works of the Netherlandish composer Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510–1564). Queen’s Phoenix — a Sydney-based ensemble that he co-founded with Brooke Shelley — released a recording of these editions in 2021, and was invited to perform at the 2022 Festival of Voices in Hobart.
Over the past decade, Bach has featured increasingly prominently in Andrew’s repertoire: as bass soloist with Canberra Bach Ensemble (CBE) and the Sydney Cantata Project, and a founding member of Bach Akademie Australia, Andrew has performed more than seventy cantatas and most of Bach’s mass and passion settings. In 2024, in the lead-up to CBE’s performance at the prestigious BachFest in Leipzig, Andrew was bass soloist in the monthly Cantata Service at the Westerkerk in Amsterdam, and undertook vocal coaching with internationally renowed Baroque specialist, Peter Kooij. He will perform at BachFest with CBE again next June.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Stuart Maunder – Living Legend / Director
Stuart Maunder has been directing musical theatre and opera in Australia for over 40 years.
Raised on a wheat, sheep and cattle property near Boggabri, and educated at Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School in Tamworth, Stuart joined The Australian Opera as Stage Manager in 1978, becoming a Resident Director in 1981.
In 1992 he joined the Royal Opera House (UK) as a Staff Director while continuing to direct in Australia, UK, France and the USA.
In 1999 he was appointed Artistic Administrator of Opera Australia, becoming Executive Producer in 2004. His Opera Australia productions included The Tales of Hoffmann, Manon, Gypsy Princess, Don Pasquale, A Little Night Music, Iolanthe, Romeo and Juliette, Lindy and My Fair Lady.
From 2014 to 2018 Stuart Maunder was General Director of New Zealand Opera where he directed Candide, Tosca and The Mikado.
In 2018, Stuart joined State Opera South Australia as Artistic Director, directing Carmen in the Square, Cunning Little Vixen, The Mikado, Carousel, Bohème on the Beach, Turn of the Screw, Macbeth and Voss.
A specialist in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, Stuart has directed ten of the G&S operas in Australia, United Kingdom and USA. His OA productions of Trial by Jury, Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore have been televised nationally on ABC TV. In 2021 Stuart directed The Gondoliers for Scottish Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera, subsequently broadcast on BBC TV. In May 2023 he helmed Australia’s first ever G&S Festivalfor State Opera South Australia.
In October 2023, Stuart became Artistic Director of Victorian Opera. His past productions for VOinclude La Rondine, English Eccentrics, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music and The Cunning Little Vixen. His VO production of Sweeney Todd has been seen in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The production will travel to Dubai in February 2025.
In 2012, Stuart was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) “for service to the performing arts, particularly with Opera Australia, as an artistic director, and as a mentor to emerging artists.”
Trybooking ACMF | 26Mark Ferguson – Piano
Composer/arranger/pianist Mark Simeon Ferguson was born into a musical family in Whyalla, South Australia and raised in Clare. In 1999 he was a finalist in the National Jazz Awards and that same year he completed his Master of Music at the University of Adelaide where he is currently Head of Jazz.
In recognition of his significant contributions to music education, jazz performance, and composition, Mark was awarded the 2022 APRA/AMCOS Luminary Award for South Australia.
Mark frequently collaborates with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with his children’s shows The Bush Concert and Herman and Rosie performed almost annually, and his orchestration of Jamie Goldsmith and Jack Buckskin’s Pudnanthi Padninthi featured at all mainstage concerts. He orchestrated Electric Fields’ 2024 Adelaide Festival commission Litjatitjatilu and created new arrangements for the ASO’s collaboration with Cuban trumpet star Lazaro Numa in the same year. In 2025 the ASO commissioned him to create Around the World, a new children’s show about an adventurous Bar-tailed Godwit.
In 2024 The Australian String Quartet commissioned his String Quartet #1: The Precarious Existence of the Plucky Hooded Plovers and his jazz quartet performed alongside the ASQ in their inaugural Barossa Weekend of Music.
Mark has written two song-cycles and numerous arrangements for the SA Primary Schools Music Festival, and he is the composer for award-winning international touring science-infused theatre company That Science Gang.
In 2022, Mark released his seventh album, Where Emus Roam the Streets, which was commissioned by ABC Jazz. In 2025 he composed the UNESCO Cities of Music International Jazz Day relay song which was performed and recorded by more than 20 different jazz groups across the globe.
He has been musical director for numerous theatre and cabaret productions including Tina Arena’s Songs My Mother Taught Me, Camille O’Sullivan’s Helpmann Award-winning show Changeling and more than ten galas for the Adelaide Festival Centre. As a pianist he has worked with artists from Mark Murphy and Jazzmeia Horn to Rufus Wainwright, Meow Meow and Barb Jungr.Replace photo
Lou Blackwell – Chanteuse
Louise has been a performer for many years, starting out in the original production of The Small Poppies directed by Geoffrey Rush for the 1986 Adelaide Festival. She sang with Melbourne Irish and Greek music vocal group FRIENDS AND RELATIONS.
She studied cinema and French at La Trobe university, went on a university exchange to Lyon university and lived in France for 10 years where she completed a bachelor of cinema studies from Paris VIII university. She studied with jazz singers Sara Lazarus and Michèle Hendricks, and went on to perform in the Paris jazz scene, recording three albumswith pianist Vincent Bourgeyx and trio. She also devised and performed in theatre production Avec Mozart le mal de gorge était moins grave directed by Séverine Chavrier.
In Adelaide, Louise formed a band with jazz musicians Mark Simeon Ferguson on piano, Julian Ferraretto on violin, Tom Pulford on sax/clarinet, John Aué on bass and Josh Baldwin on drums, to deliver a very fine, authentic performance of the Great French Songbook, Louise Blackwell and the French Set have developed a strong local and interstate following. Their award-winning Fringe seasons include A Night in Paris I & II and From Paris with Love. They have performed at all the major venues and French events in Adelaide, several times at The Paris Cat and Jazzlab in Melbourne, as well the 2025 Brisbane French Festival.
Louise devised Love on the Left Bank: Juliette Gréco, the muse of Saint Germain des Prés, directed by Catherine Fitzgerald, for the 2022 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, which opened to critical acclaim. They will be performing A FRENCH ROMANCE for the 2026 Adelaide Cabaret Festival and will feature Dan Witton on double bass who will be joining the group for the Albury Chamber Music Festival.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Dan Witton
Dan Witton is a bassist, tubist and vocalist
Dan Witton works as a performer and art worker, in Naarm, Melbourne Australia and has experience and training in physically based theatre, electronic arts, music and voice.
He has toured widely with performance projects and loves to work at home.
Recent projects include The Red Shoes (Malthouse /Belvoir /Black Swan) The Sunshine Club (Wesley Enoch/John Rogers) and Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill (MTC/State Theatre SA/ Belvoir), Carnegie Hall with Meow Meow’s Wild Women of Weimar, Festivals and independent touring with Bush Gothic.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Tim Reynolds – Tenor
Tenor Timothy Reynolds enjoys performing in a broad range of styles as both soloist and ensemble member, has performed with some of Australia’s premier companies and is principle tenor for Australia’s professional vocal ensemble The Song Company.
Timothy is a versatile performer, working in opera, oratorio and chamber groups. He has appeared with Australia’s finest early music ensembles, including Pinchgut Opera, Ludovico’s Band, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Adelaide Baroque Orchestra, La Compañia and the Melbourne Bach Choir. Concert and recital performances include appearances with The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and the MSO. He is a regular performer of the works of Bach, including The Evangelist in the Johannes Passion as well as the arias of both the Johannes and Matthäus Passion, and is a frequent guest at St John’s Southgate for their Bach Cantata programme.
In Europe Timothy understudied a number of roles at Oper Stuttgart in Germany, and performed with The Bach Akademie Stuttgart, Opera Holland Park, Hampstead Garden Opera, The Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Philharmonischer Chor Esslingen, and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
A passionate ensemble performer,Timothy is a member of the Consort of Melbourne, the Melbourne Octet, and will be joining Australia’s premier vocal ensemble The Song Company in 2023.
Some of Timothy’s recent performances include the Evangelist in Bach’s Johannes Passion, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Pompeo in Pinchgut opera’s production of Vivaldi’s Farnace, Britten’s Cantata Misericordium with the Omega Ensemble, a selection of Purcell with the Adelaide Baroque Orchestra, Ruodi in Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, and the Jester in Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty,. Timothy also has an interest in modern works, performing in Brett Dean’s The Last Days of Socrates with the MSO, Hindemith’s Zwölf Madrigale in Amsterdam, and in Elliot Carter’s What Next as Zen with Victorian Opera.
Timothy specialises in the performance of early music and small ensemble performance, particularly the music of JS Bach, and enjoys exploring and performing modern compositions.
Timothy also teaches at Victoria’s selective arts school, the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.
Trybooking ACMF | 26John Boulton-Wood – Baritone
Born in Sydney, John Bolton Wood studied voice with Mr Max Speed and opera at the NSW Conservatorium of Music and London Opera Centre. He made his UK debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Bosun in Billy Budd.In Australia he has appeared as a principal artist with all the State Opera companies, Opera Australia and Symphony orchestras in every State.
As Old Deuteronomy in the original Australian production and Asian tour of Cats, he sang 1498 performances. He has won five Green Room Awards – for Papageno, Colonel Frank, Major- General Stanley; Lord Mountararat ; Germont in La Traviatia .
Other notable engagements include Dr Bartolo in Il Barbiere Di Siviglia for Welsh National Opera and the title roles in Rigoletto and Gianni Schicchi for Opera New Zealand. Roles for Opera Australia include Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Alcindoro -Benoit-, The Preacher in Batavia, Baron Zeta ; Bruschino padre, Germont , Pooh-Bah , Sir Joseph Porter ;Somarone-Beatrice and Benedict; Counsel for the Plaintiff in Trial By Jury,Major General Stanley.,Bartolo-Barber, Melitone-Forza del Destino, Sacristan-Tosca-and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly for Opera Queensland. John was a guest lecturer in voice at the International academy of voice in Cardiff 2007 and was awarded and A.M for services to Opera in 2009.
Trybooking ACMF | 26James Armstrong – Violin
Melbourne based violinist, James Armstrong enjoys an exciting and varied freelance career across Australia.
Born and raised in Sydney, he studied with Janet Davies at the Sydney Conservatorium and was the recipient of the Ted and Susan Meller Memorial Scholarship Fund. He continued his studies at the Australian National Academy of Music with Sophie Rowell and Adam Chalabi.
James was an emerging artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2024, with whom he continues to tour with the ACO Collective. James performs regularly with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and has recently performed with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Australian Classical and Romantic Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Penny Quartet.
Beyond the classical realm, James has performed live and recorded with Godtet, Ngaiire and for ABC Jazz. James has performed in masterclasses with renowned musicians including Wayne Foster-Smith, Louis Creac’h, Midori Gotō, Shunske Sato, Anthony Marwood, the Brodsky Quartet and Leila Schayegh.
As a lover of all musical genres, Madeleine appears regularly on contemporary recordings and live performances. Paul Kelly’s ARIA award winning “Conversations With Ghosts” and subsequent tour, multiple collaborations with Penny Quartet, recording the work of jazz pianist Tim Stevens and touring with artists such as Kate Miller-Heidke and Thndo.
Madeleine has performed extensively in orchestras including Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Australian World Orchestra and has been a contract member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 Madeleine held an Emerging Artist position with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and is a member of the ACO Collective. She has featured as a soloist with ACO Collective and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. In 2025-6, Madeleine is undertaking the Musica Viva FutureMaker fellowship.
Trybooking ACMF | 26William Newbery – Viola
William completed a Bachelor of Music Degree with 1st class honours at the Elder
Conservatorium in Adelaide, Australia followed by the Advanced Performance Programme at the Australian National Academy of Music and a Diplom at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in Germany. In 2023 William completed an honours year in conducting at the Elder Conservatorium.
He has performed in several of Australia’s leading orchestras including the Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. William has been a permanent member of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra since 2007.
William has been broadcast in recital several times on ABC Classic FM and has tutored for youth orchestras in Adelaide, Hobart and for the Australian Youth Orchestra Young Symphonists Programme. He has been a guest soloist with the Nelson Symphony Orchestra in New Zealand. As a chamber musician William has performed throughout Australia and Europe and has collaborated with a diverse range of artists.
In 2018 William appeared several times as guest associate principal and principal viola with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He holds an honours degree in conducting from the Elder Conservatorium and has conducted several orchestras in Tasmania including mini-TSO programmes. William currently hosts the TSO’s 6pm series and is a board member of the Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Michael Fortescue – Double Bass
Michael’s early musical training was in Canberra, playing with Canberra Youth Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and Australian Youth Orchestra. After a year with Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, he moved to Tasmania to study with Jan Sedivka at UTAS.
He commenced work with TSO in 1976. He undertook studies in 1988-89 with Francois Rabbath at Conservatoire Lili et Nadia Boulanger Paris IX. He left TSO in 2013. He is former board member of TSO, deputy chair Music Fund of Australia Council, chair of Music Panel of TAAB, president of Hobart branch of Musicians Union and lecturer in double bass and improvised music at UTAS.
Currently chair of Kickstart Arts and freelance specialist in whiskers and kicks.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Anne-Marie McDonald – Piano
Anne-Maree McDonald is a musical director, singer, pianist, producer and educator whose career has been hitting high notes for more than 40 years. She trained in opera and piano at the Victorian College of the Arts before graduating from the University of Melbourne.
From there, she leapt onto the national stage, joining the Australian Opera as a young principal soprano, shining in leading roles such as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Clorinda in La Cenerentola and Yum-Yum in The Mikado. Anne-Maree has also lit up the musical theatre world in standout roles including Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and both Chava and Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof.
Anne-Maree is no stranger to the conductor’s baton, having conducted productions ranging from Trial by Jury to Hat’s Off!-Mardi Gras and Tell Me On A Sunday. She regularly accompanies Philip Quast in Australia and overseas and only a few months ago performed with the legendary singer at the Albury Entertainment Centre!
She is excited to be back in Albury to perform with her ex-husband, Stuart Maunder, an absolute master of all things G&S. His obsession with the artform is potentially why
they are now happily divorced!
Sally Walker – Flute
With a repertoire ranging from early music to works composed especially for her, most notably Elena Kats-Chernin’s “Night and Now” Concerto, performer, academic and music educator Dr Sally Walker has toured internationally with the Berlin Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestras, was Principal Flute of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss and the Omega Ensemble, and has performed as Guest Principal Flute with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Manchester Camerata, Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and Salut! Baroque (on period instruments) and has a long-standing association as Guest Principal Flautist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Sally has collaborated with pianists Simon Tedeschi, Kathryn Stott, Denes Varjón Vivian Choi Milton, Tamara-Anna Cislowska, cellist Steven Isserlis and harpist Emily Granger (with whom she has recently recorded the album “Something Like This” that received great critical acclaim) and has performed at festvals including: Salzburg, Lucerne, BBC Proms, Tanglewood, Prague Spring, the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Canberra International Music Festival, Sydney, Melbourne International, Adelaide and Bowral Autumn Music Festival.
She was prize-winner in numerous competitions, including the Friedrich Kuhlau International Flute competition (Germany), and has been nominated for an APRA-AMCOS Award for both for Arts Excellence and Outstanding Contribution by an Individual.
Sally is Senior Lecturer in Performance at the Australian National University, guest teacher at the Australian National Academy of Music and contributes to socially driven projects including 1:1 CONCERTS, the Equal Music program (Illumina Festival), and is the Ambassador for the Symphony for Life Foundation.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Andrew Boyle – Clarinet
Andrew Boyle is a Melbourne-based clarinettist with more than four decades of experience in performance, ensemble leadership and collaborative music making.
Following a 25 year career as a musician in the Australian Defence Force, Andrew has continued to develop a diverse artistic practice centred on chamber music and cross disciplinary collaboration. He has pursued projects that explore the vocal qualities of the clarinet and its relationship with the human voice.
Andrew has appeared regularly at festivals and concert series throughout Victoria and continues to seek performance opportunities that allow him to further explore the expressive and vocal possibilities of the clarinet, particularly in collaboration with singers and small ensembles.
Alongside an active professional life in international development, he maintains a strong commitment to performance and artistic collaboration.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Scott Marshall – Oboe
Originally from Sydney, Scott began his musical studies at the age of fourteen. After graduation from the Conservatorium High School, he continued at the Sydney Conservatorium to complete his Bachelor of Music, graduating with merit in 1992.
In the same year Scott was awarded a Big Brother Scholarship coupled with an Australian Music Foundation in London Scholarship to further his studies in the United Kingdom.
Upon return from the UK Scott travelled to Los Angeles to study with one of Americas finest Oboists, Allan Vogel. It was during this time he had the opportunity to perform in the National Repertory Orchestra, in summer residence at the Breckenridge Music Festival.
Scott has performed with the Adelaide, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras as well as touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and The Brandenburg Orchestra.
Scott was an examiner of woodwind for the Australian Music Examinations Board for 14 years before moving to Wodonga in 2019. He is currently a Junior School Teacher at Trinity Anglican College, Albury.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Natalia Edwards – Horn
Natalia Edwards began her musical journey on the horn at age 13, initially taking lessons at school before continuing her studies at the University of Melbourne under the tutelage of Saul Lewis and Nicolas Fleury.
Her interest in chamber music deepened in 2018 when she was awarded a fellowship to attend the Norfolk Chamber Festival in the USA.
This experience allowed her to collaborate with talented musicians and work closely with the distinguished brass faculty of the Yale School of Music.
Since graduating with a Master’s in Orchestral Performance from the University of Melbourne in 2022, Natalia joined the Royal Australian Navy Band, where she now serves as first horn in the Concert Band.
Her versatile role includes performing with both the Brass Trio and Woodwind Quintet, showcasing her adaptability and skill across varied musical styles.
In addition to this, Natalia regularly performs with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Southern Cross Soloists.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Michael Evans-Barker – Percussion
Michael Evans-Barker is a musician with over 30 years experience performing and teaching on the full range of percussion instruments.
Apart from his classical work with the Art of Sound Orchestra, Michael performs regularly in the Melbourne jazz scene.
His recording with the Nadav Rayman Trio was nominated for the 2021 Australian Music Prize. Michael has composed music for the Australian Shakespeare Theatre Company, and recorded and toured with Australian music icon Steve Kilbey and All India Radio.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Peter Macleod-Miller – Parish Priest, Prince of Albury, Festival President, Local Legend
Peter Macleod-Miller is the rector of St. Matthews Anglican Church in Albury. Once a bastion of conservatism, Peter has now built a church community that welcomes everyone – especially for lunch after the Sunday service.
A local activist, Peter wears many (stylish) hats, working to advocate for community members in need of food, shelter and support with mental health.
His passion for the arts, and in particular, music, is evidenced in his tireless advocacy for music making in our local area, culminating in the inception of our wonderful Albury Chamber Music Festival, alongside many other musical and arts endeavours variously held within the beautiful settings of St Matthew’s and his historically significant private residence, Adamshurst, as well as with-in the region generally.
More about Peter can be discovered on the ABC Compass feature – One of a Kind
Trybooking ACMF | 26Charlie Wu – piano
At just 13 years of age, Melbourne-born Charlie Wu has already established himself as one of Australia’s brightest young musical talents. He is a Year 8 student, and leads the 2nd violins in his School Orchestra at Caulfield Grammar School, and studies piano with Glenn Riddle at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
In 2024, Charlie made his concerto debut performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor with the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, conducted by Ivan Nikiforchin. Then in 2025 he was invited to perform Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major with Les Solistes de Neuchâtel in Geneva conducted by Sergey Ostrovsky, and in March this year Charlie performed the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 (the ‘Shine’ Concerto) with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, USA. Concerto performances with local orchestras include Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 2 in A major (with Melbourne Sinfonia), Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (Cloud Concert Orchestra), Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 (with the Preston Symphony and Whitehorse Symphony Orchestras), and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3, with the Camerata Orchestra conducted by Doug Heywood.
Internationally, Charlie’s numerous awards include winning 1st Prize, as well as the Special Prize for a work by a Swiss composer, in the 2025 Concours International Musicale de Genève in Switzerland as well as 3rd Prize in the 2026 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, held in South Carolina in the USA. He was also a Diplomate in the prestigious 2024 Gand Piano International Piano Competition held in Moscow. Locally, Charlie’s awards include 1st Prize in the 2025 Boroondara Open Age Piano Concerto Competition, 1st prizes in the Musical Society of Victoria’s 2025 Nehama Patkin and Eda Schurmann Awards, 1st prize in the 2024 PolMusicA National Polish Music Competition, and the Dandenong Ranges Music Council’s 2024 Bill Borthwick Prize. In 2024 Charlie was awarded his LMusA piano Diploma with Distinction, his examiners commenting that his performance exhibited ‘exceptional qualities of artistic insight’ and ‘transcendental virtuosity’.
2026 is a busy year for Charlie. He has been invited to present solo recitals for St Paul’s Cathedral, Scots Church Music Matinees, St George’s Anglican Church Concert Series in Travancore, for U3A in Hawthorn, for Camberwell Music Society’s Subscription Concert Series and for the Diamond Creek Concert Series. He will also be featured on the 3 MBS ‘Talent’ program. In 2026 Charlie has been invited to perform Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No 3 with the Maroondah Symphony Orchestra, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K 414 with the Mozart Festival Chamber Players at 45 Downstairs as part of Coady Green’s Mozart Piano Concerto Festival. Charlie is a keen chamber musician, and enjoys playing tennis, swimming and chess.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Lux Alba – Chamber Choir
Lux Alba Founded by its director Rebekah Beall, the choir debuted in December 2017. Typically, the repertoire performed by the choir is sacred a cappella music.
The name ‘Lux Alba’ when translated means ‘white light’ and was inspired by a quote from Arvo Part, ‘I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours.
Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener’. We were drawn together because of our love for music and feel blessed for every opportunity we can share this passion with you, our prism.
St Matthew’s Choir –
St Matthew’s Choir sings Service settings in the Anglican liturgical tradition, including Anglican double-chant psalms, a wide selection of motets, anthems, mass settings and congregational hymns, providing a sung Eucharist each Sunday.
The choir also deliver a monthly Choral Evensong using words from the Book of Common Prayer, which has been used since the 16th Century, and featuring beautiful Magnficat and Nunc Dimitus settings by composers such as Gibbons, Stanford, Walmisley amongst many others.
The St Matthew’s Parish Choir is led by musical director Rebekah Beall, and is currently primarily accompanied by organist and former director Malcolm Halford.
Rebekah Beall – Soprano / Musical Director
Locally based in the Albury/Wodonga area, Rebekah has sung with and been a featured soloist with many local choirs and ensembles including St Matthew’s Church Albury, Swell Vox, Vocal Dimensions, Women in Harmony, Vocal Consort and events such as the RSCM’s ‘Sing Away A Day’.
In 2017 Rebekah founded and continues to direct the Lux Alba Chamber Choir and in 2018 was awarded a vocal scholarship at the Murray Conservatorium, where she studied under the late David Carolane OAM and international choral director Jeff Mosher.
Following her passion for sacred music and choral directing, the beginning of 2025 saw Rebekah appointed as Choir Director of St Matthew’s Church Albury, where she has begun work to implement a scholarship programme for junior choristers, providing opportunities for young singers to learn musicianship, vocal and choral skills.
Alongside her work as a choral director, Rebekah continues to perform regularly as a soprano throughout the Border region. Recent years have seen her appear in a variety of recital, concert and sacred music performances, reflecting her ongoing commitment to both solo and ensemble singing.
Through her work with Lux Alba and St Matthew’s Church, Rebekah remains passionate about creating opportunities for singers of all ages and fostering a vibrant culture of choral music within the local community.
ACMF ’26 – featuring Australian Composers:
- Michael Lampard
- Peter Sculthorpe
- Mark Ferguson
- Ross Fiddes
- John Ross
Michael Lampard
Michael Lampard Sydney-based baritone and composer Michael Lampard holds a Master of Music from the University of Tasmania. He spent over a decade in Melbourne building a diverse career across opera, musical theatre, and composition, with his works performed by leading artists and ensembles in Australia and internationally.
A principal artist with Opera Australia, Michael made his principal debut as Schaunard in La Bohème at the Sydney Opera House in 2019. He has since toured nationally in Carmen (2021), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2022–23), and La Bohème (2024–25), and in 2026 joins the cast of The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour. His performing career has taken him throughout Australia and to Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
Michael is also an accomplished concert artist, recognised for his interpretations of German Lieder, English art song, and contemporary Australian repertoire. Operatic highlights include major roles in works by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Bizet with companies such as Victorian Opera, Melbourne Opera, Lyster Opera, CitiOpera, and Australian International Touring Opera. In 2019, he received a Green Room Award nomination for his portrayal of Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde with Melbourne Opera.
As a composer, Michael writes extensively for the voice, spanning art song, choral music, opera, and musical theatre. His music has been performed by artists including Bel Canto Young Opera, IHOS Opera, Sally-Anne Russell, Lee Abrahmsen, Suzanne Shakespeare, the Quartz String Quartet, Pamela Christie, Ross Fiddes, and the Art of Sound Orchestra. Upcoming projects include premieres at the Albury Chamber Music Festival, new works for TOSC Arts, and the development of an original musical.
Peter Sculthorpe
Few composers have shaped the sound of Australian classical music as profoundly as Peter Sculthorpe. Drawing inspiration from the Australian landscape, First Nations cultures, and the vast spaces of this continent, his music developed a distinctive voice that resonated far beyond Australia. Threnody is among his most moving works, a deeply reflective meditation whose simplicity and emotional directness continue to speak powerfully to audiences today.
Mark Ferguson
Jazz pianist, composer and improviser Mark Ferguson is one of Australia’s most versatile musical voices. Equally at home in jazz, classical and sacred traditions, his work is characterised by imagination, spontaneity and a keen sense of storytelling. His remarkable Psalm Project saw him compose and improvise a musical response to a Psalm every day for an entire year, creating a body of work that is both deeply personal and profoundly reflective.
Ross Fiddes
Ross Fiddes is an Australian composer, conductor and arts leader whose career has spanned opera, music theatre, orchestral music and song.
Founder of both the Sound Construction Company and Newcastle’s Orchestra Nova, he has played a significant role in the cultural life of regional Australia for more than three decades.
His compositions have been performed by organisations including The Australian Opera, Opera Hunter and numerous orchestras, choirs and chamber ensembles throughout Australia and overseas.
John Ross
John Ross OAM is an Australian composer, arranger, organist, educator and choral director whose contribution to musical life in the Albury-Wodonga region spans more than five decades. A graduate of Durham University and Fellow of Trinity College London, he served as Director of the Murray Conservatorium and was a long-standing examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board before retiring from both roles. He also served for many years as Director of Music at St Matthew’s Church, Albury, where his influence on generations of singers, instrumentalists and congregations continues to be felt.
In 1982 John founded the Murray Conservatorium Choir, now known as the Murray Concert Choir, helping establish one of the region’s most enduring musical organisations. As a composer and arranger, his music is performed by choirs, churches and community ensembles throughout Australia and internationally, and has reached audiences around the world through performances, recordings and published editions. His works are admired for their craftsmanship, accessibility and deep understanding of both voices and instruments.
In recognition of his outstanding service to music as an educator, musician, choral director and composer, John was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2015. His contribution to musical life, both within the Border region and beyond, has been profound, and his influence continues to be felt through the many musicians, ensembles and organisations whose musical journeys he has helped to shape.
Trybooking ACMF | 26Kosta Constantinou – Portraits & Events Photographer
Our beloved ‘House’ Photgrapher Kosta returns for ACMF | 24.
Kosta’s Melbourne based photography service Living Imagery is a photography service specialising in portraits, headshots, commercial bookings and events.
His exquisite photographs have captured the joy and beauty that is Albury Chamber Music Festival for the past two years, with stunning portraits and beautifully framed candid shots.
Kosta’s raison d’être is to capture true and living moments, in order to deliver photos full of the essence of his subjects, whether it is one on one portraiture or capturing the spirit of big events and celebrations.
Kosta’s images can be enjoyed in our 2022, 2023 and 2024 Galleries, and we can’t wait to see his beautiful shots of Festival ’25.