Lucy Macourt (violin), Bridget McCullough (viola) and Sofia Tortorelli (violin)
Recitals on the Fringe 2025 Season
North Adelaide Baptist Church Hall – Tynte Street, North Adelaide
Run Time: 6.30 – 7.00pm (estimated 1 hours)
Program subject to change
Cat Hope (1966 – )
Shadow
Belle Smibert
World Premiere
Lera Auerbach (1973 – )
Sonata for a Lonely Violinist (Solo Violin)
Angie Coffey
Phantasy
Hollis Taylor
Albanian Dance
Come to the Water, Geese
Kate Moore (1979 – )
Tarantella (Solo Viola)
Imogen Holst (1907 – 1984)
Suite for Solo viola
Sally Greenaway (1984 – )
Pastoral Caprice trio
| 10′ | 2′ | 12′ | 5′ | 5′ | 5′ | 6.5′ | 6.5′ | 6.5′ |
ABOUT LUCY
Hailing from Sydney, Violinist Lucy Macourt is a dynamic and accomplished musician with a passion for performance and pedagogy. Lucy performs regularly with the Adelaide and Canberra Symphony Orchestras, teaches at St Peter’s Girls and Pulteney Grammar Schools and is an active member of the Australian String Teachers Association’s committee. Lucy’s students have won multiple scholarships and competition prizes over the last several years, following in Lucy’s own footsteps.
Lucy completed her Bachelor of Music (Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2019, studying under Dr. Goetz Richter. During her time there, Lucy earned multiple prestigious awards, including the Matteson and Nancy Scholarship, the Kathleen and Allison Short Scholarship, and the Sydney Scholars Award. Before her degree, she was part of the Conservatorium’s Rising Stars program with Dr. Evgeny Sorkin. Lucy is also an alumnus of the Australian Youth Orchestra and interned with the Opera Australia Orchestra. In 2020, Lucy moved to Canberra to join the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Kingsland Artistic Residency Program, where she continues to perform regularly as a section violinist. She also curated a series of chamber music and solo recitals for the Wesley Music Centre and toured regional NSW and the ACT with her trio, The Olive Trio (featuring harp, oboe, and violin).
Alongside her performing career, Lucy built a thriving private teaching practice, with students earning top prizes at the Wollongong Eisteddfod and securing scholarships to leading music schools in Sydney and Canberra. In 2023, Lucy relocated to Adelaide to further her studies in performance and pedagogy at the Elder Conservatorium of Music under Dr. Elizabeth Layton. She received the David Galliver Memorial Scholarship that year, and in 2024, was awarded the Decie Denholm Scholarship, which enabled her to undertake historical performance training with the Tafelmusik Orchestra in Canada and further pedagogy training at the Center Stage Strings Festival.
ABOUT BRIDGET
Bridget McCullough is a classical violist who is currently undertaking her final year of Bachelor of Music Honours (Advanced) at the Elder Conservatorium of Music. She was under the tutelage of Keith Crellin from 2016-2022 and is currently studying with Stephen King. Bridget is a participant of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 2024 Traineeship program and the Recitals Australia 2024 Fellowship. She is passionate about chamber music and has received the Elder Conservatorium Recording Fund with Serendipity Trio and regularly performs with the Torrens String Quartet, including in their recent community outreach concert series supported by the Australian String Quartet’s NAQ Accelerator Program.
Bridget enjoys performing solo recitals and has performed for a variety of lunchtime concert series’ including Recitals Australia, Baroque Hall and Flinders Street. Bridget is principal viola in the Elder Conservatorium Baroque Ensemble and in 2023 attended the Young Mannheim Symphonists National Academy. In 2023 and 2024, she attended the Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp and performed in the 2024 Winter Season, and in 2023 she was principal viola in the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra and the Elder Conservatorium Chamber Orchestra. In 2022 and 2023, Bridget was the recipient of the Varley Scholarship and Exhibition. When Bridget is not performing, she enjoys teaching music at Nazareth Catholic College.