Lorraine Hook
Lorraine Hook has been a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s First Violin Section since 1986.
She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has worked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia and London Festival Orchestra, and maintains a varied musical life in chamber music, youth orchestra tutoring and teaching.
As a violinist she appears on Australian chamber and orchestral recordings, including string-quartet parts in contemporary clarinet works and earlier concerto programmes with Melbourne ensembles.
Performing as Academy of Melbourne
The Academy of Melbourne is a small chamber orchestra formed in 1989 by its artistic director, Brett Kelly, MSO principal trombone.
Horn Concertos
Hector McDonald, then Solo Principal Horn of the Vienna Symphony, joins the Academy of Melbourne under Brett Kelly in a programme of horn concertos by Haydn, Förster, Telemann and Teyber.