Paul Goodchild Paul Goodchild studied trumpet in Sydney and ...

Paul GoodchildPaul Goodchild studied trumpet in Sydney and Europe and was appointed a full-time member ofthe Sydney Symphony at age 18, later becoming Associate Principal Trumpet. With the SSO, hehas toured extensively throughout the USA, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Asia, as well as Singapore,China and Korea with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He is Principal Trumpet of many ofSydney's freelance orchestras and frequently performs with the Chamber Soloists of Sydney,Collegium Musicum at UNSW, Australia Ensemble, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, withwhom he has also been a soloist.In 2009 he performed in the Townsville Chamber Music Festival and in the Sydney Festival withthe London Sinfonietta and Morphoses Ballet. This year, he will perform at the InternationalTrumpet Guild World Conference in Sydney. Leading Australian composers have written works forhim, including Carl Vine, Ross Edwards, Barry McKimm, David Stanhope, Matthew Hindson andPaul Stanhope. In 2005 he gave the premiere of Alan Holley's trumpet concerto Doppler's Webwith the Sydney Symphony, reprising it in 2006 with the Queensland Orchestra.Paul Goodchild is Musical Director of the Waverley Bondi Beach Band and Director of SydneyBrass, one of Australia's oldest and most respected chamber music ensembles.David Elton – Principal TrumpetDavid Elton joined the Sydney Symphony as Principal Trumpet in 2012. He has previously heldprincipal positions with the West Australian and Adelaide symphony orchestras, and hasperformed as guest principal numerous orchestras nationally and overseas.He has performed concertos with the WASO, ASO and the Australian National Academy of Musicorchestra, including a concerto written for him by James Ledger, and 1998 won first prize in theInternational Trumpet Guild’s Solo Competition held in Kentucky, USA.Raised in Sydney, David Elton studied with Paul Goodchild. He holds a Bachelor of Music degreefrom the Queensland Conservatorium (where he studied with Yoram Levy), and a master's degreefrom Northwestern University (Charles Geyer). He was Head of Brass at the Western AustralianAcademy of Performing Arts when he resided in Perth, and is currently on the brass faculty atANAM.

Rob Johnson – Principal HornRobert Johnson studied horn at the NSW Conservatorium. He was appointed Principal Horn ofWest Australian Symphony Orchestra, with whom he regularly toured Western Australia andrecorded for ABC Radio. Following further study in Europe and the USA, Robert returned toSydney, and in 1986 joined the Sydney Symphony as Principal Horn. He has performed as asoloist and conductor with the orchestra on many occasions since.Robert Johnson works regularly with the Australia Ensemble and Sydney Soloists, and was afounding member of the Chamber Soloists of Sydney. He has also taught at the SydneyConservatorium and the Canberra School of Music.Ron Prussing – Principal TromboneRonald Prussing graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1974. In 1970, havingstudied the trombone for only 12 months, he was chosen to tour with the Australian YouthOrchestra to Japan for Expo '70. He subsequently gained much experience playing in manyorchestras as a casual musician, including the Sydney and Melbourne symphony orchestras.In 1978 he was appointed Principal Trombone with the Sydney Elizabethan Orchestra, andsubsequently Associate Principal Trombone with the Sydney Symphony. He was appointedPrincipal in 1986.In 1983, he was the first Australian trombonist to be invited to present lecturesand give recitals at the annual Seminar of the International Trombone Association, held inNashville, Tennessee.Ronald Prussing is a regular recitalist at trombone gatherings in Australia. He is a member of theSalvation Army, and has taken the Salvos' Band on tours of the USA and Canada.Rick Miller – Principal TimpanistRichard Miller was born in Melbourne in 1948. Although rock and jazz were the abiding passionsof his youth, he decided to begin percussion and timpani studies at the Sydney Conservatorium ofMusic with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's timpanist Alard Maling. He then joined the ABC'snewly formed National Training Orchestra, and subsequently began playing with the SSO.Richard Miller studied in the United States for five years and then spent two years in Britain andEurope, pursuing a jazz and rock career, before returning to Australia to take up a position aspercussionist with the SSO. He was also involved with the Sydney-based Synergy percussion

ensemble, a partnership which brought him in close contact with Peter Sculthorpe, Ross Edwards,Nigel Westlake and many of Australia's leading composers.Since becoming the SSO's principal timpanist in 1986, Richard Miller has performed with almostall the major performance ensembles in Sydney and also teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium ofMusic.Francesco Celata – Associate Principal ClarinetFrancesco Celata graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1987. Following studies inAmsterdam and Siena, he returned to Australia in 1991 where he was appointed Principal Clarinetwith the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra.Francesco has been a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 1993, and has appearedas soloist on numerous occasions with the Sydney Symphony as well as the Tasmanian SymphonyOrchestra and Auckland Philharmonia. He has also performed as guest principal Clarinet with theLondon Symphony Orchestra.Francesco Celata is an active chamber musician and is a founding member of one of Sydney'sleading chamber ensembles, the Sydney Soloists. He has taught clarinet at the SydneyConservatorium since 1994.Tobias Breider – Principal ViolaViolist Tobias Breider is originally from Münster, Germany. On completing his Master's degreewith distinction in Cologne, he travelled to New York to further his studies, before returning toGermany to undertake a soloist program in Lübeck. His intensive study of chamber music hasincluded lessons with the Alban Berg Quartet, the Juilliard String Quartet, Sarah Nelsova andMiriam Fried, among others.Tobias Breider was a fulltime member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for seven years.In 2008-09 he was Principal Viola in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg under SimoneYoung. He has also appeared as guest principal with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, theDüsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and orchestras in Viennaand Cologne.

Catherine Hewgill – Principal CelloCatherine Hewgill began studying cello in Perth, and in 1978 travelled to London for a year's studyat the Royal College of Music. She then studied at the University of Southern California.In 1984 she won the Hammer-Rostropovich Scholarship and was invited by Rostropovich toperform in a recital at the Second American Cello Congress. A period of private study withRostropovich followed. She then toured Europe with I Solisti Veneti, and studied with WilliamPleeth in London. On her return to Australia she joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra.In 1989 she joined the Sydney Symphony, and was appointed Principal Cello in 1990. She hasperformed as a soloist with most of the Australian orchestras.