Rebecca Chan...
...began her musical studies at an early age on both violin and piano and has been performing since the age of four.  When she was fifteen she began studying at the Melbourne University Conservatorium with William Hennessy whilst completing degrees in Medicine and Arts.  Since 2004 she has studied with Alice Waten at the Australian National Academy of Music.  She has also received tuition from and performed with other numerous international and local visiting artists, both in Melbourne and overseas, including Felix Andrievsky, Oleh Krysa, Boris Kuschnir and Daniel Gaede, Igor Ozim and Paul Roczek. Rebecca has won numerous major prizes at eisteddfods and has also been a prizewinner in the Gisborne International competition, the Hephzibah Menuhin award, won the Melbourne University JS Bach prize and was a finalist in the 2005 Dorcas Maclean Scholarship. She is a two-time winner of the National Academy’s concerto competition and has been invited to play solos with a number of orchestras including Orchestra Victoria, Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the ANAM orchestra, the Melbourne University Chamber Orchestra and Melbourne Youth Orchestra, including a number of live and national broadcasts.  Rebecca has been a keen chamber musician for years and has collaborated with or been tutored by notable ensembles including the Borodin, Artemis, Petersen and Henschel Quartets.  As a member of the Hamer Quartet she has performed in concerts and festivals both in Australia and overseas and been awarded several prizes/grants. She is also a founding member of Trio Anima Mundi. Rebecca is one of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 2008 Emerging Artists.  She has also been a member of the Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra since 2004 and has been a regular casual member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2005. 

Miranda Brockman...
...has been a cellist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for eight years. She grew up in Geelong as a member of a large musical family and studied both piano and cello as a child. Her teachers include Marianne Hunt, Kate Finnis, Nelson Cooke and Christian Wojtowicz and she has played in master-classes with Anna Bylsma and Janos Starker. Miranda graduated from a Masters degree in Music Performance at Melbourne University in 1998.

Before joining the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Miranda played with Australia Pro Arte, the Australian Chamber Soloists and performed as principal cellist with the Australian Pops Orchestra and the Geelong Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Miranda was a member of the Lyric Piano Trio and is a founding member of Trio Anima Mundi. She has a strong commitment to country audiences bringing chamber music concerts to towns across Victoria as well as in Melbourne. She is also a regular performer in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series.

Kenji Fujimura...
...is the recipient of numerous major prizes and scholarships, and has been broadcast on radio and television on many occasions by BBC Radio3, ABC-FM and TV, the MBS-FM network and Bravo! Canada. He pursued his tertiary studies in Melbourne and at the Royal Academy of Music, London.  Hiis principal teacher was Ronald Farren-Price.

An avid supporter of both contemporary and lesser-known music, Kenji’s doctoral research, with the assistance of a PhD scholarship, has centred on the life and works of English composer William Hurlstone (1876-1906). Kenji has given world premieres of works by Calvin Bowman, Brian Harnetty and Graham Hair amongst others, and Australian premieres of music by Karen Tanaka, Robert Walker, and Henri Busser. 

A major project for 2006 included the performance of the cycle of Mozart Sonatas for piano and violin with violinist Elizabeth Sellars, as well as premieres of works by Bowman and Philip Czaplowski.  In 2008 Kenji will be giving Australian premieres of piano trios by Hurlstone, and Stanford among others with Trio Anima Mundi of whom he is a founding member

As a composer, Kenji was winner of the 2005 William Lincer Foundation International Composition Competition (New York) and was selected for the 2006 Symphony Australia Composers’ Workshop.

Kenji has been Lecturer in Piano/Keyboard at the School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University since 2002, and is also an examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board.