Woodwind
Chair/Senior Lecturer
Michael Duke (Saxophone), BMus VCA, MM Indiana Uni, DM Indiana Uni
Professor
Kim Walker (Bassoon), Premier Prix de Virtuosité Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
Senior Lecturer
Andrew Barnes (Bassoon), PerfDip PerfCert Indiana Perfectionnement Geneva BEc Macq
Lecturers
Francesco Celata (Clarinet), BMus VCA
Ngaire de Korte (Oboe), BMus VCA UM Rotterdam
Alexandre Oguey (Oboe), Konzertreifdiplom Lehrdiplom Zurich
Sue Newsome (Clarinet), BMus GradDip Rotterdam
Part-time Staff
Geoff Collins (Flute)
Diana Doherty (Oboe)
Deborah de Graaff (Clarinet), BMus
Louise Delitt (Flute)
Roslyn Dunlop (Clarinet), BMus
Peter Jenkin (Clarinet), BMus Adel
James Kortum (Flute), BMus DePaul Uni MA UON
Christina Leonard (Saxophone), MMus Syd
Riley Lee (Shakuhachi), MA PhD University of Hawaii
Elizabeth Lim (Clarinet), ASCM BMus (Merit) MMus
Catherine McCorkill (Clarinet), BA(Music) GradDipMus Canberra
Matthew Wilkie (Bassoon)
Chair / Senior Lecturer
Michael Duke (Saxophone), BMus VCA, MM Indiana Uni, DM Indiana Uni
Born in Melbourne Australia, Michael Duke completed his Bachelor of Music degree with honors at Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts under the instruction of saxophonist Graeme Shilton. He received both Master's and Doctorate Degrees in Music Performance from Indiana University studying under the tutelage of renowned classical saxophonists Eugene Rousseau, Thomas Walsh, Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Arno Bornkamp. His doctoral document is entitled “The Saxophone in Chamber Music Since 1980: An Annotated Bibliography of Original Works.” While pursuing jazz studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, Duke studied with Shannon LeClaire, Jim Odgren and George Garzone and performed in the ensembles of Phil Wilson, Greg Hopkins, Victor Mendoza, and Joe Lovano.
Throughout the United States and abroad, Duke has engaged in an extensive performance career. He has performed with many of Australia’s premiere orchestras including the Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, the Australian Philharmonic and Pops Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. In the United States he has performed with the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra (Kentucky), the Camerata Symphony Orchestra (Indiana), the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, and the Cedar Rapids Symphony (Iowa). In the spring of 2002 Duke won the Indiana University Woodwind Concerto Competition for his performance of Jacques Ibert’s "Concertino da camera" for alto saxophone and orchestra. On the national and world stages he has been invited to perform at the past four bi-annual North American Saxophone Alliance National conferences, two World Saxophone Congresses, and has lectured at the Australian National Band and Orchestra Clinic. As a freelance musician in the Boston area, Duke has backed such varied artists as Gloria Estefan, The Four Tops, Bill Cosby and Gary Burton. He has also performed with the Danilo Perez Big Band, the Jim Widner Big Band, and the Greg Hopkins Big Band.
As well as teaching an extensive private studio, Duke is an active clinician and tutor. At the tertiary level, Duke has taught on the faculty of Simpson College in Iowa (2002-2005), Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts (2007-2008), and as an Associate Instructor at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana (1998-2000). In July 2008, Dr. Duke commenced his appointment as Lecturer of Woodwind (Saxophone) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Professor
Kim Walker (Bassoon), Premier Prix de Virtuosité Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
Kim Walker is one of the world's most celebrated bassoonists, a prolific recording artist, and a respected teacher and administrator.
Trained in the United States and then Switzerland, Professor Walker has toured as a soloist with many of Europe's leading orchestras since 1982, working with such conductors as Ashkenazy, Solti, Bernstein, Rattle and Dorati.
With 23 solo CDs to her name, Walker’s interest in both classical and modern composers has also made her a regular guest at many of the world's most prestigious festivals. She was the founding artistic director of the Archigny chamber music festival in France, and before moving to Sydney was both the Professor of Music and Director of Arts and Outreach at Indiana University, Bloomington. She gives frequent masterclasses and has seen her students celebrated in orchestras around the world.
Lecturers
Andrew Barnes
Andrew moved to Sydney from New Zealand at the age of six and commenced study of the bassoon with John Cran in 1983. Upon completing an Economics degree at Macquarie University Andrew decided to pursue his studies of the bassoon in a full time capacity. At this point he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust Scholarship and he moved to Switzerland to study with, Kim Walker. Here Andrew received the “Prix de Perfectionnement” and won the Swiss International Performance Competition. Andrew completed his studies at Indiana University in the United States, where he received a Performer Diploma and became the first bassoonist to be awarded the “Performer Certificate”, the highest performance prize offered by the School of Music.
Returning to Australia in 1995, Andrew took up a position with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, where he played for 3 years. During this time he was also a member of the “new” Adelaide Wind Quintet and appeared as soloist with the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. This was followed by his appointment to the distinguished faculty of Indiana University School of Music in 1998 where he took on the role of Professor of Bassoon and Coordinator of Chamber Music. While in the United States Andrew was able to focus on playing chamber music and solo recitals but also performed as Principal Bassoon of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra in Tennessee.
Andrew returned to Australia in September 2002 to take up the position of Lecturer of Bassoon and Chair of Woodwind at the Conservatorium of Music. This he combines with an active performing career including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, ymphonia Australis and the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra.
Sue Newsome
Sue Newsome studied clarinet at the Sydney Conservatorium with Gabor Reeves, gaining her Bachelor of Music with merit and becoming a State Finalist in the ABC Concerto Competition. She embarked upon a busy freelance career including many performances with the Windbags Quintet for Musica Viva.
Sue completed the Uitvoerend Musicus on bass clarinet with Professor Henri Bok at the Rotterdam Conservatorium for which she was awarded an Australia Council International Study Grant. Whilst in the Netherlands she made premiere recordings for Belgian Radio and collaborated on a CD of new works with Entente Musicale and Duo Contemporain.
Sue has played as Guest Principal Bass Clarinet with the Sydney Symphony,
the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed and recorded with leading new music ensembles including the Seymour Group, Sydney Alpha Ensemble and Aark Ensemble and was a founding member of the electro-acoustic duo TouchBass.
Major solo appearances include the Sydney Spring Festival, the Australasian Clarinet and Saxophone Conferences and the World Bass Clarinet Convention. Sue has given lecture/recitals and master classes in Australia and the Netherlands and is currently Lecturer in Clarinet at the Sydney Conservatorium.