Zoë Black – Violin
Zoë has won numerous awards including the National Youth Concerto Competition in 1989 and the String section of the ABC Young Performers Award in 1991. Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1992, Zoë was awarded grants from the Australia Council and the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Trust and a major performance award of the Australian Musical Foundation in London where she studied at the Guildhall School of Music under David Takeno and subsequently at the Vienna Hochschule with Michael Schnitzler. During her time in London she studied chamber music with the Takacs Quartet, played with the London Symphony Orchestra, and in Vienna with the Wiener Kammerorchester.
She returned to Australia in 1996 to become Assistant Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Zoë has performed regularly in the MSO Chamber Music series, appeared as soloist with the Tasmanian and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and is a regular solo performer for the ABC Sunday Live series. She has also featured in the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Sydney Festival and the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival.