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Zoë Knighton - cello Zoë Knighton is a founding member of the Flinders Quartet – one of Australia’s leading String Quartets which performs extensively throughout Australia, participating in many festivals. Their 2006 schedule involved repeat performances at the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields festival, Tyalgum Festival and Macedon alongside tours to Adelaide, Hobart and Launceston as well as tutoring engagements for the AYO Young Symphonist’s and the Mt Buller Chamber Music Summer School. The quartet has twice been winter residents at the Banff Centre for the Arts and has toured Switzerland and Sweden, performing at the Australian embassy in Stockholm. The group will return to Europe in 2007, performing throughout Sweden and the U.K. as well as appearances at the Bangalow Festival, The Melbourne International Festival, and performances throughout Victoria and NSW including Macedon, Castlemaine, Bateman’s Bay, and the Utzon room at the Sydney Opera House. The quartet has associations with many of the world's leading musicians including Gábor Takács-Nagy, William Hennessy, Menahem Pressler, Genevieve Lacey, David Thomas, Geoff Nutall, Elyane Laussade and the Goldner String Quartet. As an honours graduate of The University of Melbourne, receiving the highest mark of her year, Zoë studied with Michel Strauss of the Paris Conservatoire. She then completed a Master of Music Degree at The University of Melbourne and a postgraduate diploma at the University of Tasmania under Christian Wojtowicz. She has performed concertos with both faculty orchestras, Geminiani Chamber Orchestra, Stonnington Symphony Orchestra and Astra Chamber Music Society and will perform concertos with The Melbourne Musicians and the Zelman Symphony in 2007. As well as her commitments with the Flinders Quartet, Zoë performs with duo partner, pianist, Elyane Laussade. Their debut concerts visited the complete works by Beethoven for piano and cello and their 2007 engagements take them throughout NSW and Victoria. Zoë teaches at The University of Melbourne and The Victorian College of the Arts and in 2004, she was invited as Guest Lecturer in cello at The University of Tasmania.
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