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The HSO is delighted to have the opportunity to perform with the following guest artists in its 2010 Concert Series.
Tristram Williams
 Tristram Williams maintains a busy international career as a soloist, ensemble musician, improvisor and educator.
He has appeared as a soloist in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Britain, USA, China and many times around Australia, with the Melbourne, Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.
Tristram was Associate Principal Trumpet of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at age 21, before resigning in 2006 after 7 years to concentrate on his other projects.
He has performed as acting Principal Trumpet with most of the Australian Orchestras, and in 2004 was invited by Markus Stenz to play principal trumpet in the Guerzenich Orchester's 100th Anniversary concert of their premiere of Mahler's 5th Symphony in Cologne.
Tristram is a member of the Australian New Music ensemble ELISION, and plays in a trumpet/electronics duo, DIODE.
Tristram Williams is Lecturer of Trumpet at the University of Melbourne. His teachers have included Armando Ghitalla, Hakan Hardenberger, Reinhold Friedrich, Markus Stockhausen, Daniel Mendelow and John Kellaway.
He is a laureate of major international trumpet competitions in Brussels and Eindhoven, the ABC Young Performers Award, a 2008 Churchill Fellowship, and was awarded a prize from Karlheinz Stockhausen at the 2006 Stockhausen Interpreters Course.
Natsuko Yoshimoto
 Born in Japan, Natsuko began playing the violin at the age of three and won a full scholarship to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England when she was eleven. She received direct guidance and teaching under Lord Menuhin and Wen Zhou Li. She continued her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with distinction in 1998.
She has won many prizes in international competitions including the Wieniawski, the Yehudi Menuhin and the Tibor Varga. She received the Gold Medal in both the prestigious 1994 Shell/London Symphony Orchestra Competition and the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Award. In 2007 Natsuko was presented with the Iwaki Award for outstanding achievement as a Japanese artist.
Natsuko has appeared frequently at major international festivals throughout Europe, U.S.A, Asia and Australia. As a chamber musician she has collaborated with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Heinz Holliger, Stephen Kovacevich, Brett Dean, Stephen Osbourne and Christina Ortiz.
In 1993, she was honoured to perform solo in the presence of the Queen and the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace. Her debut recital at London's Wigmore Hall in 1998 with Freddy Kempf received widespread critical acclaim.
In great demand as a soloist, she has appeared with many world renowned orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia (London), Halle Orchestra, Odense Symphony (Denmark), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with many leading conductors and formed a special relationship with both Yehudi Menuhin and Hiroyuki Iwaki over many years.
In 2001, she became the leader of the Australian String Quartet and subsequently was first violinist with the Grainger Quartet. Natsuko is currently the concertmaster with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and performed as a soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in July 2009.
Natsuko has given many world premieres of works by Australia's most prominent composers. She has recorded for Virgin Classics, ABC Classics, Melba Records and Tall Poppies.
Amir Farid
Winner of the 2006 Australian National Piano Award, pianist Amir Farid has been described as “a highly creative musician – a pianist of great intelligence and integrity. He brings strong musical substance to all that he does, imbuing it with his own particular experience and understanding”, and who “in a well-populated field...distinguishes himself for all the right reasons”.
In 2004 Amir completed his B.Mus (Hon) at the University of Melbourne under the guidance of Ronald Farren-Price, and later attended the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM), studying with Rita Reichman, Geoffrey Tozer and Timothy Young. In 2009, he graduated with distinction as a Scholar supported by the Gordon Calway Stone Memorial Award at the Royal College of Music London, studying with Andrew Ball.
He has performed concerti with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Melbourne Youth and ANAM Orchestras, including Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl with the Melbourne Symphony in front of a capacity 13,000 strong crowd.
As a chamber musician, Amir is pianist of the acclaimed Benaud Trio (www.benaudtrio.com), winning the Piano Trio prize at the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, and with whom he undertook a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. They are currently musicians-in-residence at 3MBS FM. As an accompanist, he was winner of the prize for best pianist at the 2006 Mietta Song Recital award, and the 2007 Geoffrey Parsons Award.
Amir is the recipient of various awards and scholarships, including the Australian Music Foundation, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the Royal Overseas League, the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation and the Tait Memorial Trust.
Jonathon Bam
Jonathon completed his Bachelor of Music Performance degree with honours at The University of Melbourne in 2000, during which he was the recipient of the Dame Nellie Melba Award and the Mable Kent Scholarship. Jonathon continued studying vocal performance at The University of Melbourne and completed a Master of Music Performance degree in 2002 under the direction of Merlyn Quaife.
Jonathon began his solo vocal career singing as the male lead of the opera 'Milushka', an opera written by the Australian composer Katie Abbott, premiered in Melba Hall in 2001 and broadcast on the ABC Young Australia Program. During the same year he performed this role at the Port Fairy Music Festival where he could also be seen as the lead of the musical 'Lucky Stiff'. Jonathon began singing with the Opera Australia Chorus in 2002 and the Victorian Opera Company Chorus in 2006.
Jonathon's singing has not been confined to Australia however and he has toured major cities overseas including Budapest, Vienna, Auckland and New York.
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