Rosanne Hunt
Rosanne Hunt’s eclectic cello life spans contemporary music with Forest Collective, period performance with the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra and the Australian Classical and Romantic Orchestra, and chamber music with the Inventi Ensemble.
She appears on numerous recordings with many groups, including the Elision Ensemble, of which she was a founding member.
Born in Melbourne, she studied first with her mother Marianne Hunt, then in Hobart with Christian Wojtowicz and in The Hague with philosopher-cellist Anner Bylsma. Later she renovated her technique with American cello pedagogy expert Irene Sharp in San Francisco. That work engendered a joy of teaching which has become a strong thread in her career.
Performing as Accademia Arcadia
Accademia Arcadia plays baroque cantatas and chamber sonatas with one-to-a-part heat: Buxtehude's sacred motets, Handel's Italian dramas full of fire, Corelli through Purcell and Leclair, and improvisatory violin writing that still feels spontaneous.
Trio Sonatas
Four of Australia’s foremost early musicians join forces for Baroque trio sonatas by Corelli, Purcell and Leclair, in a programme that spans Italian, English and French styles.
Handel: Italian Cantatas
Melbourne ensemble Arcadia specialises in baroque cantata repertoire. Here they bring fire and passion to five of Handel's Italian cantatas: virtuosic music, beautifully performed.
Rosanne Hunt also appears on
Christine McCombe: Three Kinds of Silence
Christine McCombe is a Melbourne-based composer, teacher and writer. This disc gathers four of her chamber works in world premiere recordings, and is the first CD devoted to her chamber music.