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As guest concertmaster with Europe’s most distinguished HIP ensembles and orchestras, Anima Eterna Brugge, La Petite Bande and New Dutch Academy, guest director with Les Muffatti Brussels Baroque Orchestra and performer with Les Arts Florissants and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Rachael performs in ongoing yearly concert seasons and regular musical events in festivals and concert halls worldwide. Rachael plays a pivotal role in Australia’s cultural landscape as: Co-Artistic Director, director and concertmaster of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, which she co-founded in 2013; co-founder and member of Ironwood; guest concertmaster with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, Opera Australia and Victorian Opera; and guest director with Adelaide Baroque and NZBarok. Rachael is invited to guest direct modern orchestras from the violin, including the Canberra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and features on over 50 album recordings and broadcasts for radio and television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f474035606ac249e934a798/1598857991113-9XW3883RLF5KXQTHNPS6/_S4B8854.jpg Ensemble - Anna McMichael - violin (Photo credit: Sophie Raymond) Dr Anna McMichael performs as a violinist with many ensembles and festivals, in demand as an experienced musician able to perform diverse styles of music. She enjoyed a successful career in Europe before returning to Australia in 2010. Anna has performance degrees from The Hague Conservatorium, a Masters in Historical Musicology from King's College London, and in 2019 a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Sydney Conservatorium. She performs regularly with groups including, Ensemble Offspring, Australian Haydn Ensemble, Sydney Chamber Opera, Omega Ensemble, Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and is a core member of Ironwood. She performs at many festivals around Australia, with appearances at Mona Foma, Canberra International Festival of Music, Port Fairy, BIFEM, Sydney Festival, Extended Play and Vivid in Sydney and Metropolis in Melbourne. She has recorded her own CD on the Dutch label Unsounds, and two duo CDs on the Tall Poppies label. Anna has been Co-Artistic Director of the NSW Tyalgum Music Festival between 2014 and 2019. She joined the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University as Coordinator of Strings in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f474035606ac249e934a798/9a15270c-438b-41b2-88ff-447732f5b712/20230416ARCOYoungMannheimSymphonists-86.jpg Ensemble - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f474035606ac249e934a798/1598858618470-KLSKW7MNMJRJEO2MGHQX/DY%2Bheadshot%2B_8_X6440%2Bcopy.jpg Ensemble - Daniel Yeadon - cello/viola da gamba Dr Daniel Yeadon is exceptionally versatile as a cellist and viola da gamba player, performing repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to Contemporary. Daniel is a passionate chamber musician – in addition to Ironwood he plays regularly with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO), Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Australian Haydn Ensemble and Bach Akademie Australia. In the UK Daniel is a guest principal cellist of the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Originally from the UK, Daniel read physics at Oxford University and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London. For many years Daniel was a member of the renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet and the exuberant period instrument ensemble Florilegium. Daniel has made many award-winning recordings, including: Haydn’s cello concerto in C major with the Australian Haydn Ensemble; an ARIA winning disc of sonatas by J.S. Bach with Richard Tognetti and Neal Peres Da Costa; J.S. Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord with Neal Peres Da Costa; J.S. Bach cantatas and Brandenburg concertos with John Eliot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f474035606ac249e934a798/9ff16849-c2b9-4d6f-8812-3d3d92a8a6d2/Rob+promo+photo.jpg Ensemble - Rob Nairn - double bass/violone Returning to Australia from the U.S. in 2017 Rob Nairn was appointed to a position at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, taking over as head of the Early Music department and director of graduate studies. In 2020 he was appointed Master Musician in Residence at the Elder Con and in 2023 to a Faculty position where he teaches double bass, coaches chamber music and runs the Early Music program. He was previously a Distinguished Professor of Music at Penn State’s School of Music, on the Faculty of The Juilliard School in New York for 11 years and a Kulas Visiting Artist at Case Western Reserve University. He has lived and worked in Germany, England, Australia and the United States performing with such groups as the London and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestras; the Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestras; the English, Scottish and Australian Chamber Orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, West Australian and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the London Sinfonietta, the Halle Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the Australian World Orchestra. Rob is a specialist in historical performance, and has been principal bassist with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra since 2017 and a member of both Ironwood and Adelaide Baroque. He was principal bass of Boston’s Handel and Haydn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f474035606ac249e934a798/1598931136127-K27Y8IL3PWGNJKSONUQV/_8_X6190.jpg Ensemble - Neal Peres Da Costa - Harpsichord/Organ/Piano Professor Neal Peres Da Costa is Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Historical Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. He is known worldwide for his ground-breaking monograph Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), and the complete Brahms’ Sonatas for one solo instrument and piano (Bärenreiter Verlag, 2015/16) which he co-edited with Clive Brown and Kate Bennett Wadsworth. He is a historical keyboard specialist and is currently recipient of a prestigious Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant for research into 19th-century piano playing. Neal performs regularly with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Song Company, Bach Akademie Australia, and Pinchgut Opera. With the Australian Haydn Ensemble (AHE) and Ironwood he has undertaken performance research leading to experimental performances and recordings of Classical- and Romantic-era repertoire in historically informed style including Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 1 and 3—Chamber Versions (2017; https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f474035606ac249e934a798/1599098976841-9VGVQ9B2WZIOUPRD9IF7/Julia.jpg Ensemble - Julia Fredersdorff - violin Melbourne-born violinist Julia Fredersdorff studied baroque violin with Lucinda Moon at the Victorian College of the Arts, before travelling to the Netherlands to study with Enrico Gatti at The Royal Conservatorium in The Hague. Based in Paris for almost ten years, Julia freelanced with some of the finest European ensembles, such as Les Talens Lyriques, Les Folies Françoises, Le Concert d’Astrée, Le Parlement de Musique, Ensemble Matheus, Les Paladins, Il Complesso Barocco, New Dutch Academy, Ensemble Aurora and Bach Concentus. Now resident again in Australia, Julia is the founder and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian baroque ensemble, Van Diemen’s Band. She is a founding member of the chamber ensemble Ironwood, and the twice ARIA-nominated baroque trio, Latitude 37. Julia performs regularly with the Orchestra of the Antipodes and is a core-member of Ludovico’s Band. 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