Flinders Quartet
Formed in in 2000, the Flinders Quartet has fast become an exciting and dynamic force in Australian chamber music. Their performances have been met with widespread public and critical acclaim.
 ‘If it’s gutsy, compelling music-making you want, Flinders Quartet fits the bill.’ The Age.

Members of the Quartet

Erica Kennedy
is a Masters graduate of The Faculty of Music, The University of Melbourne where she studied with William Hennessy. As a soloist she has won numerous awards, recorded for national television and radio and performed solos with various Australian orchestras including the Tasmanian Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, the Soirées Musicales Orchestra and the Stonnington Symphony.
Erica has studied in the USA with the Vermeer Quartet and the Emerson Quartet, in Switzerland with Hatto Beyerle, in Australia with the Goldner String Quartet and the Melba Quartet and as a scholarship holder at the Australian National Academy of Music. 
Erica has worked with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as acting associate concertmaster/ concertmaster and with Orchestra Victoria as guest concertmaster. She also performs with the Australian Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra as well as teaching violin and chamber music at the University of Melbourne.
Mathew Tomkins
began violin lessons at the age of 5, learning from Reiko Moritz and John Hughes in Ballarat. In 1987 he began advanced studies with Marco van Pagee at the Victorian College of the Arts.
While studying for his engineering and science degrees at the University of Melbourne, Matthew continued his studies with Spiros Rantos.
Matthew was for many years a member of the Geminiani Orchestra, appearing as soloist performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and also was a frequent concertmaster, including their European tour in 1998. Upon returning to Melbourne, he took lessons with Mark Mogilevski, and in September 1999 was appointed to a position with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, with whom he toured Europe in 2000 and China in 2002. Matthew has played with the Academy of Melbourne and the Australian Philharmonic Orchestra as principal second violin and also with Australia Pro Arte. Matthew also teaches violin at The University of Melbourne.
Helen Ireland
is a graduate of the Canberra School of Music, and was awarded the Erica Haas prize for chamber music. She participated in several Australian Youth Orchestra tours, becoming principal viola of the Camerata in 1998. In 1996, Helen was finalist in the viola competition at the International Winter School for Strings.
Helen was worked with many leading Australian Orchestras, including the Tasmanian Symphony orchestra and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. After two years as a scholarship student at the Australian National academy of Music, she is in demand as both player and teacher, working regularly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria.
Zoe Knighton
is an honours graduate of the University of Melbourne. She studied with Michel Strauss at the Paris Conservatoire then completed a Master of Music Degree at The University of Melbourne under Christian Wojtowicz. She has performed concertos with both faculty orchestras, Geminiani Chamber Orchestra, Astra Chamber Music Society and Stonnington Symphony Orchestra.
As well as her commitment to the Flinders Quartet, Zoë performs duos with pianist Elyane Laussade.
Zoë teaches at The University of Melbourne and in 2004 was guest lecturer at The University of Tasmania

PROGRAME 1

Flinders + 1 - Flinders Quartet with Keith Crellin.

Bowman:   New Work - Homage to Mozart
Shostakovich:   String Quartet No.8 in C minor Op. 110
Mozart:   String Quintet in C major K.515

Monsalvat Barn Gallery
Sunday 13 April 2.30pm
Iwaki Auditorium
Tuesday 15 April 6.30 pm
(Delatite wine at 6.00pm)

PROGRAM 2

Beloved Beethoven

String Quartet Op.18 No.5 in A major
String Quartet Op. 127 in E flat major

Iwaki Auditorium
Tuesday 10 June 6.30pm
Montsalvat Barn Gallery
sunday 15 June 2.30

PROGRAME 3

Masterworks
Webern:  Langsamer Satz
Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.5 in D major
Schubert: String Quartet D.810 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden"

Monsalvat Barn Gallery
Sunday 19 October 2.30p[m
Iwaki Auditorium
Tuesday 28 October 6.30
(Delatite wine at 6.00pm)

Venues

Iwaki Auditorium
ABC Southbank Centre
Southbank Boulevard
Southbank  MELWAYS 2F

Montsalvat Barn Gallery
7 Hillcrest Avenue
Eltham MELWAYS 22 A 8

For further information:
The Flinders Quartet
PO Box 12301
A’Beckett St
Melbourne 8006 Australia.
Mobile: +61 (0) 419 314 440
Fax: 03 5423 2106
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