Lucy Gallup - Harp was born in Salisbury, England and began learning the Harp aged 6. She later attended the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama where in 1994 she won 2nd place in the prestigious Lutine Prize Competition.
Lucy was awarded a Foundation Scholarship to study with Fiona Hibbert at the Royal College of Music where she gained her BMus(Hons) in 2000. In her third year she won the United Kingdom Harp Association prize for solo performance. Solo freelance work in London included performances for HRH Princess Anne at St James' Place.
For the final semester of her degree, Lucy was selected to exchange to the Queensland Conservatorium of Music where she went on to gain her MMusSt. with High Distinction. During this time Lucy performed the Debussy "Danses" for 4MBS Festival of Classics with the Conservatorium Orchestra.
Since graduation in 2001, Lucy has pursued her passion for orchestral music, performing regularly with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and The Queensland Orchestra, as guest principal and second harpist. Other principal freelance work has included performances withThe Royal Ballet (Sydney and Brisbane), The English National Ballet, Hungarian Opera Co., West Australia Sympony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Grammy award winner Kanye West supporting U2's 2006 tour of Australia.
In 2006 / 7, Lucy has performed as a soloist in the Brisbane City Hall Classical Lunchtime Recital series, a duo recital with TQO conertmaster Warwick Adeney for Chamber Music QLD, and as guest artist performing Ravel "Introduction and Allegro" with chamber group Collusion. In 2004 Lucy featured at the Bangalow Music festival playing the Debussy "Trio for Harp, Flute and Viola" with Brett Dean and Tim Munro, and gave a number of performances with Southern Cross Soloist Tania Fraser.
2008 brings a guest appearance with the Southern Cross Soloists chamber group.
In July 2007 Lucy was a category finalist in the ABC Young Performers Awards, performing Ginastera "Harp Concerto" with The Queensland Orchestra. This will be broadcast nationally on ABC radio later in the year.
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.
Piano and violin
Jonathan Ng began violin at the age of eight and piano at the age of twelve. He was awarded an AMusA with distinction, violin in 2000 studying with Spiros Rantos and an LMusA, piano in 2001 with Kevin Power. Since graduating from the University of Queensland in 2004 with a Bachelor of Pharmacy and registering in 2005, he has been working full-time as a pharmacist whilst continuing to develop his passion for music.
Jonathan has toured extensively across Australia and internationally to Europe and South Korea as a member of the Queensland Youth Symphony (QYS) and the Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO). He was concertmaster of QYS in 2006 and appeared as violin soloist with the orchestra in 2003. Jonathan was concertmaster of the QYO Chamber Orchestra in 2004 and in 2006 was concertmaster and piano/violin soloist performing Graeme Koehne’s Capriccio for Piano and Strings and Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Jonathan has also performed with the Bangalow Festival Chamber Orchestra, BONYI Southern Cross Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Aurora Chamber Orchestra (concertmaster), University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Gold Coast Symphony Orchestra (concertmaster) and in session orchestras for short film score recordings.
Jonathan has a love for chamber music and has been a member of numerous chamber ensembles over the years. As a member of Corda Vuota string quartet, he was awarded the Sid Paige Memorial Prize in chamber music in 2001. He was Artistic Co-ordinator of the Chamber Music in the Old Museum series in 2004-2006 and was Director and first violinist of the Energy Quartet who featured in this series. Jonathan also has a passion for new music and in 2002- 2005, He was the pianist and violinist of the new music ensemble MERCURY collaborating with numerous Australian composers such as Paul Stanhope, Gerard Brophy, Peter Rankine and Andrew Ford. Jonathan is also in demand as an accompanist playing with instrumental and vocal musicians for Symphony Australia’s Young Performer Awards, University of Queensland and Queensland Conservatorium recitals, eisteddfods and AMEB examinations.
After juggling full time pharmacy and music for many years, 2008 sees Jonathan working as a part time pharmacist to focus on music. After appearing as violin soloist with The Cat Empire in September 2007, Jonathan was chosen to tour nationally with the band in February this year as first violinist in their string quartet. He also performed with the band at the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival in Byron Bay appearing on Channel Ten’s Video Hits in an acoustic recording of Fishies as part of the festival. In March Jonathan performed a recital in the Restrung Festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse playing violin, piano and violin with his own pre- recorded piano accompaniment works by John Adams, Frederic Rzewski, Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt. In September, Jonathan performed twice in Cathedral Week as a new member of the Camerata of St John’s and with the Elston Quartet. Jonathan continues to run his private teaching studio (violin and piano) and in 2008 started a piano teaching position at St Joseph’s Nudgee College. Tales of the Faithful is Jonathan’s first appearance with Collusion.