Megan Driscoll
Violinist & Lawyer
Megan started playing a cardboard box with ruler at the age of 3. She eventually moved onto an instrument that made sound in the form of an actual wooden violin and hasn't stopped playing since. Starting with the Suzuki method, she ultimately migrated to the AMEB system and gained her Associate of Music Diploma (AmusA) in 1992. Always finding orchestral playing to be a highlight, over the years Megan has been a member of the Armidale Youth Orchestra, Armidale Symphony Orchestra, New England Sinfonia, National Music Camp orchestras and the University of Queensland orchestra. Megan joined the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra in 2002 after being dragged along by a friend. She has recently taken up lessons again after a long hiatus of 13 years and is thoroughly enjoying it.
In her other life, Megan is a lawyer specialising in the field of immigration, through which she endeavours to defend non-Australians against the great might of the Australian government in the form of the Department of Immigration.
Sarah Sullivan
B Mus, Grad Dip Opera Performance
Sarah Sullivan is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Sarah has performed many roles for the Queensland Conservatorium and studied under Professor Janet Delpratt.
Sarah is a company member of Opera Queensland and has been a Developing Artist for that company.
In 2001, Sarah won the Horace Keats prize for best fourth year or post-graduate recital and the Opera Australia Foundation Covent Garden National Opera Studio Scholarship. This took her to London where, through the National Opera Studio, she worked with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Sarah is currently conductor of the Caloundra Chorale and is Front of House Manager for the Conservatorium Theatre Griffith University.
Programme Concert 1
Puccini: Arias from Tosca - soprano Sarah Sullivan
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 with Caloundra Chorale
Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture
Sibelius: Violin Concerto 2nd mvt - soloist Megan Driscoll
