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Guest Artist: Fiona Ziegler • violin SUNDAY AUGUST 3, 2.30pm Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW After early training at the Conservatorium High School, Fiona Ziegler played in the Australian Youth Orchestra touring, with it to China. The following year she toured Asia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and after three years as a member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, which she toured Asia, Europe and the UK, she joined the Sydney Symphony in 1983, and bis currently Assistant Concert Master. Fiona Ziegler has twice been state finalist in the ABC Young Performers'Awards and has travelled to the UK on a Sydney Symphony Friends' Scholarship, studying with Eugene Sarbu, and early music with Carl Dolmetsch. She began violin and piano studies at the age of five with her mother, Sydney violinist Eva Kelly. At the Conservatorium High School she studied violin with Christopher Kimber and Harry Curby, piano with Nancy Salas and cello with Lois Simpson. She also attended master classes with Valery Klimov, Igor Ozim and the Quartetto Beethoven di Roma. Fiona Ziegler is one of Sydney's leading baroque violinists and performs with Ensemble de la Reine. She was a founding member of The Australian Fortepiano Trio, the Trio Pollastri and her baroque trio, Concertato. She has performed regularly with the Renaissance Players,Sydney Chamber Choir, Coro Innominata, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Sydney Soloists.Fiona was a member of  the Sydney String Quartet for 4 years and has led the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra since 1992. Fiona Ziegler is also a founding member of the Gagliano String Quartet, which was chosen as the sole Australian representative at Portsmouth in the Fourth International String Quartet Competition under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin. Grevillea Ensemble is proudly sponsored by Stephen Yarrow Design & Print