Many years ago (about fifteen of them) in a land far away (Perth), Stephanie began her musical journey on the oboe, quit, and then picked up the bassoon. Thankfully, it stuck! In 2025 she is in her second year at ANAM under the guidance of Lyndon Watts.
Stephanie completed her Bachelor of Music with Honours at the Western Australian Academy of Music in 2019 and was awarded an additional Honours degree in 2020 from the University of Melbourne.
Stephanie is an active freelance musician across several orchestras throughout Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. She has an avid love for musicals and opera and most recently performed in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with Victorian Opera, including travelling to Dubai.
Stephanie adores chamber music and is a champion for the reed quintet, an emerging ensemble comprising oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon.
Outside of performing, Stephanie spends her time wrangling her two cats Clara (Nutcracker) and Mimi (La bohème), asking her Yiayia and mother for step-by-step instructions on how to make various delicious Greek foods and giving various art projects a go before leaving them half finished.
FROM: WA. Lands of the Wajuk people.
Stephanie is supported by ANAM Syndicate donors Merilyn and the late David Howorth, Barry Jones AC and Rachel Faggetter, Chris Perks and Victor Goldsztein, Adrian Turley and the late Frank van Straten AM.
Photo by Pia Johnson