Conductor

The present conductor is Marie-Louise Wright (Mary). She was born in Graz in Austria. She studied violin first with Brian Fish and subsequently with Zefferino Mendes, Tim Wachtel and Warwick Stengards. She has trained in Conducting and Music Direction with Dr Peter Clinch, Robert Rosen, Marvin Rabin and Jerry Nowak and regularly attends conducting workshops

She is the currently the Conductor of the:

Marie-Louise Wright:

  • conducts productions of Gilbert and Sullivan and Broadway Musicals in Eltham.  Past productions include Lehars Merry Widow and Fiddler on the Roof 
  • is a past player for and arranger of music for the Victorian Concert Orchestra
  • is a past tutor the Melbourne Youth Music - Saturday and Summer Schools and the Margaret Sutherland Strings for several years
  • is a busy and much sort after violin teacher, both privately and in local schools

Her favourite music includes Beethoven, especially Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral", and Classical ballet music of the Romantic era.