Bryony MacGillivray - Flute
Bryony received her Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Canberra School of Music in 2000, having also graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 1998, receiving a Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence. A member of the Queensland Youth Orchestra for almost nine years, Bryony has since been a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra, Youth Music Australia's Young Concert Artists and New Music Now programs, and the Sydney Sinfonia. Bryony has also performed with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and is currently a casual performer with The Queensland Orchestra and with the ensemble ‘Collusion’.
Bryony has been the recipient of several scholarships, including the James Carson Scholarship (1997), the Big Brother Inc. Fellowship (2001), and the Lord Mayor's Performing Arts Fellowship (2003). In 2004 Bryony used the latter to travel and live in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, learning from Felix Renggli, Professor at the Musikhochschule Basel, Michael Cox, Principal Flautist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and performing at the summer schools of Jonathan Snowden, Peter Lloyd, Wissam Boustany and William Bennett.
In 2005, Bryony was awarded the ‘Peter Mitchell Churchill Fellowship’ and an Australia Council for the Arts ‘Skills and Arts Development Grant’ to undertake a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music in London, which she completed in June, 2006. During her time at the Academy, Bryony was runner-up in the J.J. Brough flute prize, performed as a soloist with the Modern Instrument Baroque Orchestra, and completed her Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, a highly-regarded teaching qualification.
Bryony is currently the Director of flute at Stuartholme School, flute teacher at Anglican Church Grammar School, a casual flautist with The Queensland Orchestra, and freelance musician in Brisbane. In 2007, she has also been a guest artist for Sarah Blasko and Collusion Ensemble. She is also a part-time honours student in psychology at the University of Queensland.