| Archive of Featured Artists |
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Listed below are our past Featured Artists. To read their story click on the story title. |
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| » | Art for Heart's Sake | | Meet Raelean Hall, inspiring and healing others through her art and art therapy. | | |
| » | The Art of Spirit | | Meet Meloney Steyl, expressing her passion and faith through paint and pen. | | |
| » | Magic Music Mamma | | Meet Kath Willams, a talented performer and teacher, touching others through the magic of music. | | |
| » | Jewellery Gems. | | Meet Pauline Murray, decorating women everywhere with her exquisite jewellery. | | |
| » | Market Art Magic | | Meet Adrienne Parker, blending pattern and colour to create inspiring works of art. | | |
| » | Glamorous Glass | | Meet Glenys Fentiman shining a light on the diversity and beauty of glass art. | | |
| » | Inspiring Images | | Meet Tracy Woolley a photographer and business woman inspiring people all over the world. | | |
| » | Outback Artist | | Meet June McCotter, promoting and painting the essence of the outback experience. | | |
| » | Soulful Singer | | Meet Delany Delaney, a mesmerizing and magical performer, weaving her magic through song. | | |
| » | Natural Beauty | | Meet Saffron Drew, capturing the texture, colour, and dynamic pattern of nature in her art. | | |
| » | Forming the Female | | Meet Lindi Birnie – ‘Body & Soul’ – celebrating the female form sculpturally. | | |
| » | Funky Females | | Meet Denise Daffara, celebrating the light and joy of women in her funky, fun, colourful paintings | | |
| » | Captivating Ceramics | | Meet Shannon Garson, a porcelain artist inspired by nature and history, blending them into magical pieces. | | |
| » | Painting Pleasures | | Meet Natalie Dyer, diversely expressing the beauty of life in sensational works of art | | |
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| Meet Louise and Sarah, sisters in life, string and song, creating beautiful music together. |
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| How long have you both been involved in music? Louise & Sarah: “All our lives. We grew up in a musical, creative family. Our dad is a music teacher and choral director and our mum loves singing in community choirs and is an interior designer. Music and instruments were always around and our favourite play time when we were little was making up sound stories on the piano with our Dad.” |
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| How have you developed your skill in this area?
Louise & Sarah: “We both learnt piano, singing and recorder at home and discovered other instruments by going to concerts and taking formal lessons. Sarah chose the violin and Louise chose the cello after trying and not liking the sound of the flute, oboe and clarinet! We played in the local youth orchestra and made many friends through music.
Louise auditioned at twelve and was accepted into the Junior Royal College of Music in London (a three hour train trip every Saturday from home) and Sarah followed at thirteen. We both studied with great teachers at RCM (instrumental, piano and theory) and played in master classes, chamber music and orchestral programs as part of our training. This shaped us immensely and opened up our career paths and inspired Louise to be a concert cellist. Sarah developed an interest in modern music and started to explore other genres.
Tertiary training was music degrees for both of us. Louise, a double performing diploma and Bmus honours degree at Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and Sarah a degree in practical music and music technology at Scarborough Uni. Sarah met her Australian husband whilst at Uni and settled on the Coast and has taught strings in several local private schools since 2001.
Louise worked in Cairo setting up a music program in an international school and then worked for BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic before settling on the Coast in 2003.
As professional musicians and passionate teachers, we are constantly evolving our ideas and interests within our field and aim to pass this inspiration and freshness onto our students and our listeners.”
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in Music? Sarah: “My time spent at the RCM in London had a big influence on me and still inspires me now as a teacher and performer. We were exposed to some world-class teachers and musicians and I feel very privileged to have been part of it.”
Louise: “Inspiration starts for me with great music and musicians and the feelings it creates. Working with my teachers opened my mind and showed me the world through music and then there are the great cellists and inspiring stories of people who succeed against all odds. Touring and working with world famous conductors or singer songwriters is also inspiring for me.”
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| What do you hope to give with your music?
Sarah: “I would like to pass on the experiences and knowledge that I enjoy. I’m still on my own musical journey, finding new music that inspires me every day and new genres and styles to adapt to.”
Louise: “Pleasure, connection to the soul, comfort, excitement and inspiration.”
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| What do you get from your music?
Sarah: “A sense of electricity when it all falls into place.”
Louise: “All of the above”
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| What has been your greatest moment with your playing?
Sarah: “When I was younger taking part of a festival at the RCM with Yehudi Menuhin as our conductor and more recently performing with Katie Noonan at the Power House in Brisbane.”
Lou: “Playing music with my friends, playing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on tour, seeing 200 people turn up to a small wooden hall in the Hinterland to hear my trio play last year, playing with concert pianist Pascal Rogé, playing for Prince Charles and Princess Anne at 13, playing and connecting with the cancer patients at the children’s hospital in London, playing in great concert halls like London’s South Bank or Royal Albert Hall, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall or baroque palaces or great big cathedrals in Europe, playing for prisoners at Manchester Prison, recording and working with Katie Noonan, performing with Pavarotti, Nigel Kennedy, Il Divo, Persian and Egyptian musicians, playing as a tutor for the Australian Youth Orchestra and don’t forget the school concerts - they are always fun.”
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| Where would you like to take your music?
Sarah: “Where ever my musical journey takes it.”
Lou: “To people, who like me didn’t grow up in a city and have access to great teachers or inspirational artists visiting their community.”
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up playing an instrument?
Sarah: “Try it and have fun with it. As long as it’s fun it will stay with you forever.”
Lou: “Learning music is fun, challenging and can take you to wonderful places of the heart and mind but only if you let it – use your imagination and find a sound or an instrument that feels natural for you.”
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? Sarah: “I love to meet and play with musicians of all genres of music. To challenge myself and make something unique materialise takes perseverance and a deep belief in myself.”
Lou: “My whole spirit, dreams and aspiration are my music. I feel deeply when I play and listeners always comment on that tangible, heart-felt emotion and joy when I play or teach.”
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| Who do you know that is a ‘spirited’ woman?
Sarah: “My sis, mum and all my wonderfully different girl friends.”
Lou: “My sister, my mother, my friends and my many adult inspirational students.”
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| Is there anything else you would like to let us know about you?Sarah: “Believe in yourself and be patient.”
Lou: “Always put your complete self and love into everything you do.”
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