Aubrey Murphy

Biography

Aubrey was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1965. At the age of ten he was the first Irish student to enter the Yehudi Menuhin School. In 1983 he began his studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, under Franco Gulli and Henryk Kowalski. He has been guest leader with Scottish Chamber Orchestra and BBC Ulster Orchestra. Aubrey then spent eight years with Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Principal Violinist and regular guest leader working with conductors such as George Solti, Daniela Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Charles Mackerras, Simone Young, Richard Hickox and Colin Davis. During the time he was there, the orchestra won many awards including Evening Standard Opera Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement and the 1999 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. The orchestra has also been referred to as “one of the best in the world”.

 

Aubrey was appointed Concertmaster of Opera Australia’s Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra in May 2002 . With the blessing of Jorn Utzon he founded the Utzon Ensemble ™ and he also performs with the Sydney Soloists on a regular basis. Aubrey, along with actor David Wenham, is an Ambassador to the world famous Wayside Chapel. In May 2005 Aubrey was invited to be Guest Concertmaster for English National Opera’s performance of Eugene Onegin.

 

Awards: Artists Diploma and Performers Certificate (Bloomington). Centenary Medal of Australia for Services to Music (awarded 2002).

 

Aubrey plays a rare 1853 Guiseppe Rocca violin

 

Text Box: New Year’s Eve Gala Concert (On Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music) …supported by excellent sustained violin solos from concertmaster Aubrey Murphy The Australian. January 2005 Der Rosenkavalier “ … moments of true excellence, such as Aubrey Murphy’s violin solos.” Sydney Morning Herald. Sept 2004 Swan Lake “..with outstanding violin solos from Aubrey Murphy.” Sydney Morning Herald. May 2004 Beethoven Nine “The AOBO’s recently appointed concertmaster, Aubrey Murphy, led the way with steely focus through the tricky build-up to Beethoven’s thundering first subject…” The Australian. January 2003 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk “It’s probably not coincidental that the AOBO has - at last - a new, permanent concertmaster in Aubrey Murphy whose playing gleamed and pointed up the enriched strings.” The Australian. June 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Contact details: 

Opera Centre, 480 Elizabeth Street, Sydney

NSW 2010  Australia.   Email: roccaubs@aol.com

 

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