Jacqueline Ogeil

Jacqueline Ogeil (B. Mus., B. Mus. Ed., MMus., University of Melbourne) studied with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam (1993), Colin Tilney in Toronto and John O'Donnell in Melbourne. As a student she won the Royal South Street Competition (Ballarat) and the Heidelberg Eisteddfod in 1988, both as a pianist, and in 1989 the Rotary International Foundation Scholarship to study harpsichord with Tilney—the sole awardee in a district of 64 clubs and the youngest recipient in forty years. In 1995 she received a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust Award and was a semi-finalist for the Young Achiever of the Year Awards.

Her continuo playing has kept her in demand as an accompanist. She has worked with Gerald English (Monteverdi Vespers, Collins Street Grand Music Promenade 1995), Cynthia O'Brien and Ruth Wilkinson of Capella Corelli, Ensemble Gombert, Fonte Musicale, Lucinda Moon and Gary Ekkel, and with Berlin recorder virtuoso Susanne Ehrhardt on La Follia (MD 3211), with whom she toured Europe in July 1998. She has also played with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

She has been a guest lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Music on figured-bass accompaniment, Artist-in-Residence at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Mackay, and presenter of lecture-recitals for the National Trust's Johnson Collection on eighteenth-century fashion, manners and style.

As a soloist she has performed in Australia, Europe and Canada, and has recorded for ABC FM (including Young Australia) and 3MBS FM. The Virtuoso Harpsichord (MD 3167) was recorded in April 1995; Buxtehude at the Harpsichord (MD 3191) followed in 1996–97 for the Sacred Heart Early Music Festival; and 1998 brought La Follia (MD 3211) with Ehrhardt and her first European concert tour.

She has long championed modern works for the instrument. In 1994 she gave the first Australian performance of Naji Hakim's Shasta and made its first recording; Hakim praised the playing as ‘superb, both energetic and poetical’ and bought fifty copies of the disc.

She plays a Marc Nobel harpsichord (Melbourne, 1988), a copy of a seventeenth-century Flemish Couchet, at A=415.