Linda Pirie

Flute

Linda Pirie is a freelance flute player and has enjoyed a vibrant and varied performance career, performing with the English National Ballet, Adelaide Concert Orchestra, Southern Cross Symphony, Adelaide Hills Chamber Players, State Opera of SA and CoOpera, with whom she has toured extensively throughout Australia and Asia.

As well as enjoying orchestral music, she is a passionate exponent of chamber music, particularly as it relates to wind instruments. She has performed nationally

with the award-winning flute quartet Kshema, and in concert with some fine chamber musicians such as Keith Crellin, Wendy Heiligenberg, Dean Newcombe, Monika Laczofy and Sarah Christ. She is a founding member and the Artistic

Director of Adelaide-based Windsong Quintet, established in 2015.

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Linda has coordinated many chamber music concert series, most notably as the Artistic Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, comprised of a versatile group

of wind and string musicians, and including Bronzewing Quartet and Windsong Quintet. Performances included the staging of larger chamber works such as The

Carnival of the Animals, Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, and chamber versions of larger works by Vaughan Williams and Vivaldi. Venues for these concerts included key spaces in the Adelaide CBD and regions.

Always searching for new repertoire for winds, in 2022 Linda commissioned established South Australian composer Jodie O’Regan to compose a work for Windsong Quintet. The result was ‘Elegy for a Grieving Whale’ for wind quintet, percussion and baritone, which is planned for a world premiere in South Australia later in 2024.

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Linda is an AMEB examiner and flute subject advisor and is a highly experienced and avid educator, with students receiving awards and professional appointments.

Linda has been a Lecturer in Flute at Elder Conservatorium and is also a keen singer and pianist.

Steph Wake-Dyster

Clarinet

Steph Wake-Dyster completed her Master of Music in performance at Elder Conservatorium studying with Robert Schubert, followed by a year

of a Professional Diploma in Orchestral Studies in Chicago. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Adelaide Achiever’s, The Christ Church, Doris West and Chicago College of Performing Arts Conservatory scholarships and the Beta Sigma Phi Music Award.

Steph has performed in the St. Magnus (Scotland) and Barossa festivals with the Elder New Music Ensemble and ABC’s ‘Sunday Live ’ program. She has recorded works by Australian composer Wendy Hiscocks for the ABC and Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint. Steph has been soloist with the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, Unley Chamber Orchestra and Adelaide Youth Orchestra. She is an active chamber musician, being a founding member of Kegelstatt Ensemble, new member of WindSong Quintet and freelance performer with State Opera of South Australia, Southern Cross Symphony and Adelaide Concert Orchestra. She is a dedicated clarinet teacher having tutored at multiple schools in Adelaide and Melbourne.

Joanne Bridgman

Oboe

Born in London, Jo began learning music including recorder, voice, violin and piano at a young age. She immigrated to South Australia with her family in 1980 and

continued her music education through primary school. She was awarded a scholarship to the esteemed Special Interest Music course at Brighton High school.

Here Jo began learning the Oboe and Cor Anglais with Adelaide legend Rosemary Stimson and continued until her graduation in 1992. Jo continued my oboe and music studies with the world-renowned Jiri Tancibudek, Alison Stewart-Klein and Paul Miller, at Adelaide University’s Elder Conservatorium, completing her Bachelor of Music in 1996.

She taught oboe for the Instrumental Music Department from 1997-2002 when she began her current day-job as a specialist woodwind technician with oboe maker Tony Ward, while continuing to be a professional freelance Oboe and Cor Anglais player.

Jo joined forces with Richard Craig Woodwind and Gustafson Custom Horns in 2019 to create Consortium Music, where she currently works during the day. She continues to freelance on the Oboe and cor Anglais in professional musical theatre orchestras and esteemed ensembles such as:

• Adelaide Wind Orchestra (Section Leader and Principal Oboe) celebrating Australian works and commissioning new works from Australian composers

• Disney’s Mary Poppins (2023)

• Chess (2021).

• Disney’s Aladdin (2019)

• Band of the South Australia Police

• Arbour Octet

• Adelaide Concert Orchestra (Candlelight- Fever, Carols by Candlelight etc)

• Southern Cross Symphony Orchestra

• Adelaide Hills Chamber Players

Timothy Rosen

Bassoon

Tim attended Marryatville High School’s Special Interest Music program studying with Josie Hawkes and then continued his studies at the Elder Conservatorium under Mark Gaydon (Principal Bassoon - Adelaide Symphony Orchestra) and Jackie Hansen (Principal Contrabassoon - Adelaide Symphony Orchestra).

During his studies, he was Principal Bassoon with all Elder Conservatorium’s ensembles, the Adelaide Youth Orchestra and was solo bassoon in Co-Opera’s 2013 tour of Die Fledermaus across Malaysia.

Post completion of his Bachelor of Music, Tim attended the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp as Principal Bassoon for both Bishop and Alexander orchestras.

As a freelance orchestral musician, Tim has worked with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, State Opera of South Australia, Southern Cross Symphony and the Adelaide Concert Orchestra.

Tim has been a regular member of the Adelaide Wind Orchestra since its formation in 2012. He has performed countless Australian and World premieres of living composers from across Australia and the rest of the world. He can be heard on Adelaide Wind Orchestra’s 2024 album

Tangent playing principal bassoon in Martin Cheney’s symphony Tangent: Symphony for Wind Orchestra.

Tim’s musical passion lies in performing chamber music, especially working with composers to develop new music. He has performed with the Windsong wind quintet, the Kegelstatt Ensemble, chamber concerts with the Adelaide Wind Orchestra and other performances with

members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

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Outside of performing, Tim is a committee member of the South Australian Music Camp Association and of the South Australian branch of the Australasian Double Reed Society.

Heath Parkinson

French Horn

Heath Parkinson has played the French Horn professionally since leaving Marryatville High School in 2000.

First, Heath held a position in the Air Command Band (Airforce) for over 6 years, then went onto playing as a guest Principal in the Australian Opera Orchestra for 3 years until hanging up his opera boots to play Billy Elliot the musical for 18 months in both Sydney and Melbourne.

Whilst in Melbourne, Heath also studied at the Australian National Acadamy Of Music and played in Orchestra Victoria. Late that year he joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as Principal 3rd horn. For the next 14 years along with holding this position, he was fortunate to play as a Guest Principal Horn in the Adelaide, Melbourne, New Zealand, Orchestra Victoria, Australian Opera, Australian Chamber

and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Heath now lives in Adelaide, plays chamber music regularly whilst honing his horticulturist skills at Rymill Park with Adelaide City Council.