Cellist Rosanne Hunt
We're very excited to be welcoming cellist Rosanne Hunt as guest mentor for Episode 5!
Rosanne Hunt is a Melbourne-based cellist and cello teacher. She started her studies aged 6 with her mother, iconic Melbourne teacher Marianne Hunt, who taught, among others, Michael Dahlenburg (now of Australian String Quartet), Chris Howlett (Australian Digital Concert Hall), and many other professionals in the Arts including theatre director Barry Kosky. Rosanne is sister to period violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch, and to Elizabeth's twin, Tanya Prochazka, who, before her untimely cancer death in 2015, was a stunning cellist with a career in North America.
After her first years with her mother, Rosanne went on to study with Christian Wojtowicz in Hobart and played as principal cello in the Australian Youth Orchestra in 1984. She then had the great good fortune to study with cellist-philosopher Anner Bylsma in The Hague, and with ground-breaking cello pedagogue Irene Sharp in San Francisco. She was encouraged in baroque cello by Paul Dyer of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and in contemporary cello by Daryl Buckley of the ELISION Ensemble.
All these influences, plus detours into studying medicine and working in organic farming, have given Rosanne the possibility of an eclectic, rich freelance life. She has played with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria (guest principal cellist), the contemporary groups ELISION and Forest Collective, the Sydney contemporary group Halcyon, and many other freelance engagements in both modern and period cello. Recent highlights include premiering and recording Elliott Gyger's "Autobiochemistry" song cycle for soprano and cello, performing alongside Elizabeth Wallfisch in performances of Telemann Violin Concertos with the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra (recorded by 3MBS), and playing in recital with Dutch saxophonist Niels Bijl.
She is a founding member of the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and teaches cello and chamber music at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. She also administers and raises funds for the Hunt Family Memorial Fund (in memory of her parents and her sister Tanya) which helps send disadvantaged young musicians to the Australian Youth Orchestra's National Music Camp.
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