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Erica Kennedy is a Masters graduate of The Faculty of Music, The University of Melbourne where she studied with William Hennessy. As a soloist she has won numerous awards, recorded for national television and radio and performed with various Australian orchestras including the Tasmanian Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the Soirées Musicales Orchestra and the Stonnington Symphony under conductors including Graham Abbott, Benjamin Northey, Barry Tuckwell, Vladimir Verbitsky and Marco Zuccarini. Performance highlights have included the Sibelius, Stravinsky and Korngold violin concertos with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as well as the Beethoven violin concerto and the Brahms “double” concerto for violin and cello with Zoë Knighton and the Stonnington Symphony Orchestra. Erica has studied in the USA with the Vermeer Quartet and the Emerson Quartet, in Switzerland with Hatto Beyerle and Gabor Takacs-Nagy, in London with David Takeno, in Australia with the Goldner Quartet and the Melba Quartet and as a scholarship holder at the Australian National Academy of Music. She is now sought after as a chamber music mentor and is involved with Youth Music Australia, Mt. Buller Chamber Music Summer School, Melbourne Youth Music and the University of Melbourne. She has also given masterclasses in Singapore. As a soloist and chamber musician, Erica is very active performing as a core player with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and also with groups including the Melbourne Musicians, the Team of Pianists and with Dutch piano and cello duo Grace Kim and Teije Hylkema. Erica also performs in a duo with pianist, Kristian Chong. She has worked with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as acting associate concertmaster/ concertmaster and has performed with Orchestra Victoria as guest concertmaster. She also performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as well as teaching at the University of Melbourne On top of recordings with the Flinders Quartet, Erica’s commercial recordings include the solo violin arrangement of Richard Meale’s “Cantilena Pacifica” with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Individual Biographies
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