YOUNG AUSTRALIAN CONCERT ARTISTS (YACA)

A graduate of the Canberra School of Music, where she studied with Vincent Edwards and Ernest Llewellyn, Barbara Gilby continued her studies with Prof. Roman Totenberg at Boston University, from which she graduated in 1978 with the degree Master of Music in violin performance. Thereafter she spent six years in Germany where she played with the Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester and the North German Radio Orchestra, Hannover, as well as gaining proficiency in the German language.

On returning to Australia Barbara was appointed as Concertmaster of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, which position she occupied for fifteen years. Associated activities included leadership of the Tasmanian Symphony chamber Players and the Trigon Ensemble. The TSCP are well known for their wide-ranging repertoire and particularly for their individual and informed performances of Baroque music. The ensemble has made numerous recordings for ABC Classics including Vivaldi’s “the Four Seasons” (in which Barbara is the soloist), “Virtuoso String Music of the Eighteenth Century” and “Spirit of the Baroque”. Barbara appears as soloist in two of the works on the "String Concerti of Richard Mills" disc, also released by ABC Classics.

In 2000, Barbara joined the academic staff of the ANU School of Music. Her teaching interests focus on the development of methods for organising the mental and physical aspects of playing, on fostering the enjoyment of performing and on developing ensemble skills. Since July 2008, Barbara is employed part time by the ANU and has developed a thriving private teaching practice. In addition to her teaching commitments, Barbara continues to appear as soloist, chamber musician and guest concertmaster. She lives with her two happy black cats, Flora and Kaspar and spends any spare moments in her garden.

YACA Wind Quintet - Darwin
Margaret Crawford

Adelaide-born Margaret Crawford played piano and composed from the age of nine.  At fifteen she began flute lessons with David Cubbin at the Elder Conservatorium and then moved to Melbourne in 1960 to undertake a tertiary degree at the Melbourne University Conservatorium, studying flute under Leslie Barklamb and piano under Ronald Farren-Price.  For several years she played principal flute with the Australian Youth Orchestra.  In 1963 she gained her BMus and two years later a Master of Music majoring in flute performance.
 
In 1966 she won the ABC Concerto Competition (now Young Performer of the Year), which led to solo performances with all of the State Symphony Orchestras and numerous broadcasts.  A major focus for her at this time was the performance of contemporary music.  In 1967 she travelled to Vienna where she specialized in baroque music, studying recorder under Professor Hans-Maria Kneihs and flute under Hans Reznicek at the Vienna Academy of Music, graduating with honours in 1969.  She also studied in Paris with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion and attended masterclasses given by Rampal, Gazzeloni, Gerard Schaub and Marcel Moyse.

Since returning to Australia in 1970 Margaret Crawford has taught flute at the Canberra School of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium, the Queensland Conservatorium, the Melbourne University Conservatorium, the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music.  From 1990 to mid-1997 she held the position of Head of Woodwind, Brass and Percussion at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 1998 she returned to the Sydney Conservatorium as Senior Lecturer in Flute, moving back to Melbourne at the end of 2003.

Margaret Crawford has presented masterclasses and lectures on a wide range of musical and flute-related subjects. As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician she has toured Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, and South East Asia. She has broadcast extensively in Australia and recorded a number of works by Australian composers.

Margaret Crawford teaches in the Music Faculty of Melbourne University and at the VCA and is Artist in Residence at the Australian National Academy of Music.

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