Erica Rasmussen (Director)
Erica is a percussionist, educator and creative director. She has completed a Bachelor of Music (Honours), Master of Music Performance in Percussion and most recently Master of Arts and Cultural Management at the University of Melbourne. Erica has received grants from Australia Council for the Arts, City of Melbourne, ArtPlay, Cybec Foundation and Moonee Valley Foundation to manage and direct a number of professional and community projects, including Crashendo! at Laverton College. Erica is co-director of Paint What You Hear art and music workshops and a regular teaching artist with ArtPlay and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She teaches percussion at a number of schools in Melbourne and is an avid performer, playing various gigs around Melbourne. Erica is co-founder of Tungsten Duo and the award-winning BED Percussion trio.
Miranda Hill
Miranda is a classically trained double bassist, musician, producer, and educator, who has performed everywhere from the Arts Centre to Mao’s live house Punk club in Beijing. Her performance interests move from historically informed period performance through to improvisation. Miranda is passionate about bringing experimental musical concepts to a broader audience and integrating improvisation and experimentation into music education. Miranda is Musical Director of 3 Shades Black, Riff Raff Radical Marching Band and co-director of Fine Fine Small Mountain and The Flying Tapirs. As a double bassist, Miranda plays as a freelance musician with Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra Victoria, Opera Australia regional tours, Australian Romantic Classical Orchestra, Arcko Symphonic Ensemble and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
Kristen Perry
Kristen is a passionate musician and educator, with a love and extensive experience in performing and teaching different styles of music including classical, tango, jazz, Latin and indie rock. She has been teaching and performing on flutes, saxophones and clarinet for over 20 years. Kristen has collaborated with visual artists, dancers and musicians in a variety of styles and formats. She has composed original music for Wax Studios Independent Theatre and Eaze multi-arts group with performances at Revolver, Earth Core Music Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival. Kristen has also worked as tour manager between Melbourne and Taiwan. She has managed tours to Ho Hai Yan Festival in Taiwan for The Dirty Three, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cat Power and more.
Tom D’Ath
Born in New Zealand before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 5, Tom D'Ath completed his Bachelor of Music (Honours) in Clarinet Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music in 2018, and is currently pursuing a Master of Music (Orchestral Performance) at the same institution. In 2018 Tom toured to Singapore and Shanghai with the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, attended the Australian Festival of Chamber Music Winterschool as a part of Ensemble Contineo, performed as a part of the Australian National Academy of Music Orchestra, and commissioned and performed new Australian works as a member of six-four. 2019 has seen Tom perform with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and hold principal positions in the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Jen Hanna
Jen is a flautist and pianist who has been teaching since 2016. She studied her BH-Mus and MMus at the University of Melbourne, specialising in flute and Musicology. Jen is also interested in music reseach and composition, especially for wind instruments, and performs in a woodwind quartet.
Dr Caerwen Martin
Dr Caerwen Martin’s imaginative and play-based-learning teaching style has been developed over 33 years of experience, mentorship, and dedicated practice led research. Their method is rooted in music therapy, psychology, physics and acoustics, with the aim to offer students, knowledge of the basic foundations of working memory, audiation, creative visualisation, leveraging weight distribution, neuro-training, self-evaluation, and learning autonomy. Caerwen is a passionate advocate for diversity inclusion with particular interest in neurodiversity and disability empowerment in the learning environment.
Indyana Kippin
Indyana, with over 16 years of experience, is trained classically in violin and viola. On top of obtaining her Bachelor of Music (Interactive Composition), she has performed at Hamer Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Sidney Myer Music Bowl and John Cain Arena, as well as at music festivals such as Port Fairy Folk Festival and the National Folk Festival. Indyana also enjoys combining her love of violin/viola with her passion for singing and writing poetry, which unite to create her ‘ethereal cinema pop’ genre for her singer-songwriter project ‘Indyana’. She has been releasing music since 2020 and is currently in the process of releasing her debut album.
Francesca Michelis
Francesca was first introduced to music through her grandfather, who was a self-taught musician and dancer. She began studying violin in the folk and popular genre and then completed her classical music studies at the conservatory of Turin, Italy, where she graduated with a Master of Music performance. She has studied with Bruno Pignata (former curator of Paganini's violin and first violin of Quartetto Paganini) and Adrian Pinzaru (first violin of Delian Quartet) and over the years she has gained experiences with different chamber music groups and various Italian orchestras. Coming from a mixed education, Francesca's approach to teaching aims to be as personal as possible and to find the different needs and talents of each individual or group, committing to share the beauty and power of music.
Sean Marantelli
Sean is a Melbourne based flutist who recently graduated with a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music where he studied flute with Derek Jones, Linda Verrier and Richard Davis, and piccolo with Andrew MacLeod of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 2018 Sean appeared as Principal Flute with the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra’s inaugural tour of China and Singapore. Sean has also appeared as Guest Principal Piccolo Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, and given solo performances in Israel, England, Scotland and South Korea. In his travels Sean garnered the attention of William Bennett, OBE, who described Sean as a flautist who “can play in time and with a good sound. He is blessed with a good ear”.