MSV-Malvern

The Alumni of MSV-Malvern & MSV-Caulfield

 

Alumni of the MSV-Malvern as professional musicians include: (and please email me with more names & details, I know I'm missing quite a few!)

 

Caroline Almonte (international concert pianist)

Kate Amos (soprano)

David Ashton Smith (singer, Ashton Smith Singers)

Margaret Ashton Smith (singer, Ashton Smith Singers)

Aaron Barnden  (freelance orchestral violinist)

Jo Beaumont (former Concertmaster, OV)

Lotte Betts-Dean (freelance mezzo-soprano)

Zoë Black - international violinist

Diana Bond (Suzuki violin teacher)

Louisa Breen (pianist with MSO)

Stefan Cassomenos (international pianist/composer/conductor)

Genevieve Clifford (French Horn in Germany) 

Nicholas Clifford (Viola Germany)

Debbie Coleman (Piano/violin teacher)

Ruth Crellin (née Saffir) (cellist, Teacher at Elder Conservatorium)

Rohan de Korte (cellist MSO)

Ngaire de Korte  (Oboist Sydney)

Elizabeth Drake (Pianist, composer, sound artist)

Katherine Drake (violist, WASO)

Majella Drew (AMEB piano examiner)

Robert Ekselman (international cellist)

Amir Farid (professional pianist)

Margaret Farren Price (née Cameron) (pianist)

Anthony Fenelon (great pianist, also well known theatre organ specialist)

Penelope Fletcher (piano teacher)

Kenji Fujimara (professional pianist/composer)

Pippy Gardner (cellist Opera Victoria)

Louise Godwin (concert cellist)

Scott Griffiths (international rock keyboardist/guitarist)

Penelope Gunter-Thalhammer (international improvisation concert artist)

Rupert Guenther (international improvisation concert artist)

Debbie Haskell (violin & piano teacher/adjudicator)

Julie Haskell (VCA-SS lecturer/VMTA President/early music performer)

Cameron Hill (leader of Adelaide Symphony)

Alfred Hornung (international cellist)

Marianne Hunt (cello teacher)

Rosanne Hunt (international cellist)

Suzanne Johnston (international mezzo-soprano)

Karen Kim (owner of Hello Music school & production company)

Nym Kim (international pianist/SBS arts presenter)

Elisabeth Leslie (international pianist, recently returned to Sydney from Glasgow)

Michael Leslie (international pianist and teacher Munich)

Lady Shaula (international singer/harpist & composer)

Ian Lowe (international baritone)

Katherine Lukey (Ass. Concert Master, Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Ian McDonough ( former leader 2nd violins, London Symphony Orchestra)

Stephen McIntyre (International pianist)

Ian Munro (international pianist)

Julie Raines (MSO harpist)

Pamela Raines (MSO harpist)

Glenn Riddle (international pianist/conductor/teacher)

Peter O'Reilly (Como Quartet, international tours, Muppet Show guests)

Tanya Prochazka (international cellist, Libby Wallfisch’s identical twin sister)

Michelle Ruffolo  (violinist MSO)

David Saffir ( Head of Strings, Barker College, violinist, conductor of Willouhby Symphony Orchestra)

Patricia Samson (violist, World Doctors’ Orchestra)

Margaret Schurmann (international concert pianist)

Elizabeth Sellars (Monash Uni Head of Strings, international violinist)

Eve Silver (Cellist WASO)

Irit Silver (Clarinetist in Sydney)

Rachel Silver (French Horn MSO)

Yevgeny Sorkin ( Violinist Sydney)

Greg Sneddon (film director, multi-media producer, composer)

Warwick Stengards (international conductor)

Jonathan Summers ( international operatic baritone)

Miriam Toussaint (Carey Grammar Head of Senior School Music (and Keyboard, Voice and Theory Co-ordinator)

Hilary Travers (AMEB piano examiner)

Marie-Danielle Turner (violinist Brussels)

Elizabeth Wallfisch (international baroque violinist)

Dr Diana Weekes (international concert pianist, composer, lecturer Uni of SA Elder Conservatorium)

Virginia Weekes (violinist, formerly MSO, SSO, AOBO, Victorian String Quartet, Robert Pikler Chamber Orchestra, ACO)

Alan Zavod (Melbourne Uni professor/internaional film composer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAST PRESIDENTS  & SECRETARIES/VICE PRESIDENTS

Virginia Weekes has some old programs from the days when we used to give recitals for the MSV in the Assembly Hall Collins Street, Melbourne.

 

Jean Beddoe       (Mr Weekes used to print all the programs and invitations which went out monthly to all the members.)

Eda Schurmann OBE  (Marianne Hunt)

Marianne Hunt (Eda Schurmann OBE)  - these two wonderful women swapped their roles frequently over 25 years and           were the driving force behind MSV-Caulfield.

Eda Schurmann (Rita Seeligson)

Rita Seeligson  

Ian Lowe

Suzanne Johnston

Majella Drew

Michelle Swarray

Lady Shaula Salathe 2012 - (current)     (Caroline Almonte)