Orchestras & Soloists
Brisbane
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Dane Lam
Pianist Tony Lee
Violinist Anna Da Silva Chen
Soprano Sharon Zhai
Mezzo soprano Victoria Lambourn
Guzheng Jammy Huang
Canberra
Conductor Guy Noble
Pianist Tony Lee
Violinist Anna Da Silva Chen
Soprano Sharon Zhai, Yafen
Mezzo soprano Victoria Lambourn
Guzheng Jammy Huang
Sydney
Conductor Guy Noble
Pianist Tony Lee
Violinist Amanda Chen
Soprano Sharon Zhai
Tenor Haotian Qi
Guzheng Jammy Huang
Adelaide
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Guy Noble
Pianist Tony Lee
Violinist Amanda Chen
Soprano Cathy Di Zhang
Mezzo soprano Victoria Lambourn
Guzheng Zhaohong Liang
Zhang Guoyong - Artistic Director
Prof Zhang is the current director of the Conducting Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the chief conductor of the Shanghai Opera House and the music director of the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, vice-chair of the Shanghai Musicians Association and the Chinese Musicians Association.
Zhang graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Professor Huang Xiaotong. In 1993, he went to Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory for further studies under the famous conductor Roger Stevinsky and was awarded a doctorate in music.
Guy Noble - Conductor
Guy Noble is one of Australia’s most versatile conductors and musical entertainers, conducting and presenting concerts with all the major Australian orchestras and performers such as The Beach Boys, Yvonne Kenny, David Hobson, Ben Folds, Dianne Reeves, Randy Newman and Clive James. He has cooked on stage with Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant, appeared as Darth Vader, and might be the only person to have ever sung the Ghostbusters theme live on stage accompanied by The Whitlams. Guy is a regular guest presenter on ABC Classic FM, writes a column for Limelight Magazine and presents the inflight classical channels on Qantas, Air China, China Airlines and Gulf Air.
Dane Lam - Conductor
The young Australian-Chinese conductor, Dane Lam, Principal Conductor of China’s Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, enjoys a career spanning three continents. With a particularly close relationship with London’s Opera Holland Park, he is equally at home in the theatre as on the concert platform. He was recently appointed Resident Conductor and Associate Music Director of Opera Queensland.
Tony Lee - Pianist
Winner of the Nancy Weir Best Australian Pianist in the prestigious 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition, Tony has appeared as soloist with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Samara Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly across Europe, China, USA, New Zealand and Australia.
Anna Da Silva Chen - Violinist
Anna Da Silva Chen is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading young violinists, enjoying an international career as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared with the Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmanian, Canberra, Willoughby and Metropolitan symphony orchestras as well as several regional and youth orchestras across Australia, performing concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Sibelius, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski.
Amanda Chen - Violinist
Amanda Chen started playing the violin at the age of seven. She completed her Bachelor of Music in 2019 and Master of Music Studies in 2021 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Associate Professor Alice Waten, who has been her main musical mentor since childhood.
Amanda was recently an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2020 and 2021, and since leaving formal studies she has played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Opera Australia. In 2017, she was a prize-winner at the Gisborne International Music Competition in New Zealand. She has been selected to play in masterclasses for Mauricio Fuks and Maxim Vengerov.
Sharon Zhai - Soprano
Sharon graduated in Opera Performance from the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing before obtaining a Masters in Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She recently returned to Sydney having spent 8 years based in Italy.
After private study with soprano Tiziana Fabbriccini and Maestro Leone Magiera, she won the OMEGA competition in Florence, the Umberto Giordano competition in Lucera, Foggia and the Magda Olivero award in Saluzzo, Cuneo; Sharon also won the Mietta Song Recital Award in Melbourne.
Cathy Di Zhang - Soprano
Australian soprano, Cathy-Di Zhang, is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London where she completed her studies on full scholarship from 2010-2015. She graduated with a Master of Arts (Vocal Studies) - Distinction, Dip.RAM and an Advanced Diploma in Opera Performance and she furthered her training on the ENO “Opera Works” Programme at English National Opera.
Victoria Lambourn - Mezzo Soprano
Victoria studied piano, cello, singing and composition at the Queensland Conservatorium Music School before continuing her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (UK) graduating with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and Master of Music Performance. She performed her first operatic role at the age of 15, when she performed Dido in her school’s production of Dido and Aeneas. Her performance as Angelina in La Cenerentola for the RNCM led to an invitation to participate in the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro (Italy).
Ya Fen - Soprano
Yafen is an award-winning Chinese soprano for folk songs who has promoted traditional Chinese folk songs around the world. She is part of the Chinese Armed Police Headquarters Art Troupe, a member of Chinese Musicians Association, ambassador of China Disabled Persons Federation and an envoy of Chinese and foreign cultural exchanges.
Jammy Huang - Guzheng
Jammy Huang holds a bachelor's and a master’s degree in Chinese Musicology from the National Taiwan University of Arts and is currently a guzheng teacher at the Sydney Meya Conservatory of Chinese Music. She has won the first prize in the Guzheng group of music competitions in Taiwan multiple times. In the past two years, she has actively participated in cross-field guzheng performances, guzheng composition, and guzheng teaching.
Zhao Liang - Guzheng
From Singapore, Zhao is an exciting and highly accomplished performer, with a heart for the community and touch of an artist. She is one of South Australia’s most grounded artists as her initiatives, projects and collaborations have been heavily focused within South Australia.