Cindy Masterman is a Brisbane-born cellist, currently in her second year at ANAM, where she is training with the esteemed cellist and tutor Howard Penny.
In 2019, Cindy completed her Licentiate with Distinction and recently achieved her Bachelor of Music. She continued to graduate in 2023 with a Postgraduate Certificate in performance under the guidance of Trish Dean.
Her love for chamber music has led to various opportunities to travel alongside fellow members of the Tarilindy String Quartet, which was established in 2021.
Cindy traveled to Montreal in Canada to attend the Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival and was a winner of the Ross Peters Chamber Music Prize. She also attended the Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) Chamber Players in Melbourne in 2023, receiving guidance from Sophie Rowell. Cindy has also performed as a mentee alongside Ensemble Q and, most recently, the Australian String Quartet.
Cindy was recently a principal cellist at AYO’s National Music Camp, which she has attended since 2019. Her orchestral journey began in 2014 with the Queensland Youth Orchestra, which she attended for six years.
She has been awarded the Piatti Prize and participated as a finalist in the Vada Jefferies Prize and Basil Jones Sonata Prize while studying at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Aside from Cindy’s musical endeavors, her other interests are in fitness and health.
FROM: QLD. Lands of the Yuggera people.
Cindy is supported by ANAM Syndicate donors Elida Brereton, Dororthy and Hans Carlborg, Lyndsey Hawkins, Mick and Margaret Toller, Michael Schwartz and David Clouston.
Photo by Pia Johnson