SOPRANO

Bonnie de la Hunty specialises in Baroque and Classical opera, oratorio, art song recitals, chamber music, and Irish folk music. A graduate of Early Music studies at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Netherlands; Masters at Royal Academy of Music, London; and WAAPA, Perth; she has also been a soloist with companies across Australia and Europe including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Perth Symphony Orchestra, Freeze Frame Opera, Lost and Found Opera, Adelaide Baroque, Australian Baroque, Denmark Baroque, West Coast Philharmonic Orchestra, WASO Chorus, Perth Symphonic Chorus, and Perth Orchestra Project; and ensemble member of the St George’s Cathedral Consort, The Song Company, Giovanni Consort, and Polyphony (UK).

CELLO, VIOLA DA GAMBA

Since graduating from studies at the University of Western Australia, Krista Low has pursued a varied career in historically informed performance, contemporary music and everything in between. As an undergraduate, she was awarded the Pauline Steele Memorial Prize for Solo Cello, the Margaret Bello Prize for Chamber Music and a Wesley Mission Scholarship. She subsequently received a University Postgraduate Award to undertake a Masters in Music at UWA under the supervision of Dr Suzanne Wijsman which she completed in 2015. Krista has participated in masterclasses and festivals in Canada, France and the Netherlands and appears frequently as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician on both Baroque and modern cello, and viola da gamba.

VIOLIN

Sarah Papadopoulos studied Music at the University of Western Australia, graduating in 2016 with First Class Honours in Baroque Performance under the guidance of Paul Wright, Shaun Lee-Chen and Suzanne Wijsman. In Europe, Sarah has performed with Holland Baroque as a Samama fellow in 2022 /2023, the Northern Consort, in the Urbino Early Music Festival, the Academy of Ancient Music in Bruneck, the Apollo Ensemble Summer Academy, and the Juilliard at the Piccolo Academia in Montisi. She performs on modern and Baroque violin with Western Australian orchestras including Australian Baroque, the WA Philharmonic Orchestra, Perth Symphony Orchestra, Perth Chamber Orchestra, and Fremantle Chamber Orchestra.

FLUTE

Jonty Coy is studying his Masters in Early Music at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Netherlands, thanks to the generous support of Gandel Philanthropy and the General Sir John Monash Foundation. Jonty graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BPhil (Hons) majoring in music performance, receiving numerous scholarships and awards there including the David Tunley Music Scholarship, the Lady Callaway Medal for Music and the St. George's College Clough Music Scholarship. Since 2018, he has focussed primarily on the study of traverso playing, under the tutelage of Georgia Browne and Kate Clark. Jonty plays a copy of a G.A. Rottenburgh flute (c. 1740) from the collection of Frans Brüggen, by Roberto Bando.

HARPSICHORD

James Huntingford is a performer on both modern and historical keyboard instruments, including piano, fortepiano and harpsichord. James has performed as soloist with Perth Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Youth Orchestra, The National Capital Orchestra and Musica da Camera Chamber Orchestra. In 2009, James was the winner of the Austrian Embassy's Haydn Festival Competition, and he is a two-time winner of the ACT's National Eisteddfod Open Piano Recital. In 2013 James was awarded the Australian Society of Music Educators' Lady Callaway Award for his diverse musical and artistic services to the Canberra community. In 2016 he moved to Perth, where he has since completed both an Honours year and a Master of Arts degree at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), specialising in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century historical keyboard performance and research.

HARPSICHORD, ORGAN

An accomplished keyboardist, Michael Lukin (harpsichordist, organist, and founding member) is currently studying a Master of Music in Conducting at Yale University in the USA, as a Postgraduate Fulbright Scholar. Michael holds an AMusA in piano performance, and an AMusA and LMusA in organ performance from the Australian Music Examinations Board, winning the A. J. Leckie Memorial Award for the best diploma candidate in WA in 2015. Having served as the Assistant Organist of St George’s Cathedral from 2016-2019, Michael graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2019 with a Bachelor of Music with first-class honours where he specialised in historical keyboard performance with Stewart Smith and Geoffrey Lancaster.

PERCUSSION

Jet Kye Chong is an award-winning Perth-based composer, percussionist and researcher. His music has been performed throughout Australia, Asia, Canada and the USA, premiered by the Flinders Quartet (VIC), Perth Symphony Orchestra, the Irwin St Collective, and members of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Australian National Academy of Music among others. He has recorded works of Myburgh for Australian and UK labels, recorded with Australian Baroque for ABC Classic, produced 5-star award-winning Fringe World shows in 2022 and 2023, toured nationally with the Momentum Ensemble, and internationally as Principal Percussion with the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Chong holds a Bachelor of Philosophy in Mathematics and Statistics, and Music Specialist Studies (Composition/Percussion), with First Class Honours. His research thesis 'Predicting Marimba Stickings with Neural Networks' won the 2020 Dr Vincent Harry Cooper Memorial Prize, the 2022 Statistical Society of Australia Louise Ryan Best Presentation Award, and was recently published in the Australasian Joint Conference in AI proceedings. Chong performs as a freelance percussionist, taiko drummer, bodhrán player with traditional Irish band The Hár, keys player, and conductor of the WA Medical Students Orchestra.

VIOLIN

Eliza McCracken is in demand as a freelance violinist, having performed with various ensembles including the WA Symphony Orchestra, WA Philharmonic, and Perth Symphony Orchestra. Eliza holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours from the University of Western Australia, having studied modern and baroque violin with Paul Wright, Semra Lee and Shaun Lee-Chen. During her Undergraduate degree, Eliza won the Flora Bunning Award for Chamber Music and the VOSE Memorial Prize. Eliza has performed as part of the Urbino Early Music Festival, the Academy of Ancient Music in Bruneck and the Apollo Ensemble Summer Academy in the Netherlands. Eliza was the Artistic Administrator for the Australian Youth Orchestra from 2019-2023, and currently enjoys balancing her playing and teaching commitments with her role as Artist Manager for one of Australia’s leading classical artist agencies, Emblem Artists.

FLUTE

Andy Skinner studied a Bachelor of Performance at The Conservatorium of Music, as a modern Flute player some 20 years ago. Returning to Perth in 2015 from living abroad in Europe Andy’s focus shifted to Baroque. Under the Tutelage of Internationally renowned Baroque Flautist Georgia Browne, He has performed with The Early Music ensemble of St George’s College, Besozzi soloists, Telemann players, Australian Baroque and in Master Classes at the Mulin de Carjac in France. Andy plays a copy of a 1730 four-part Quantz flute by French maker Jean Meltzer.

HARPSICHORD, ORGAN

Stewart Smith is one of the most active organists and harpsichordists in Australia. He has performed at international festivals and in venues throughout the southern hemisphere and in Europe, and in the recent past has performed with the Hilliard Ensemble, I Fagiolini, the Orchestra of the Antipodies, Pinchgut Opera, Ensemble Arcangelo, Ensemble Batistin, The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Festival Baroque, The Australian Haydn Ensemble and the St. George’s Cathedral Consort, and is the organist of Christ Church Claremont. A five-CD set of French Baroque music on the ABC Classics label has recently been re-released internationally, and has won plaudits from the international press.

Stewart studied performance and musicology at the Royal Academy of Music and at London University, and graduated with first-class honours, a master’s degree, two performance diplomas and many prizes. He has recorded fifteen CDs and has performed many times for ABC radio and television. Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.