Myee began learning the violin at the age of ten with Ernest Llewellyn, OBE. Within eight years she had won 1st Prize at the QYO National Youth Concerto Competition and had joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra. However, in 1989 Myee left Australia to study with Alice Waten at the Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong. Graduating with a High Distinction, Myee moved to London for post-graduate studies with David Takeno and the Takacs String Quartet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In London Myee won 1st Prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition which resulted in an invitation to Cyprus to perform for Queen Elizabeth II. Myee was also selected as Concertmaster of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra for two years and performed at the European Rencontres of Chamber Music in Paris. As a member of the London Festival Orchestra and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Myee performed throughout England and Switzerland. Her next journey was to Norway in 1994 to play with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra as Principal 2nd Violin which led to the position of Assistant Concertmaster in 1997. During these years Myee became Artistic Leader of the 'Arctimus' ensemble, funded by the Norwegian Government to present 150 concerts a year throughout Scandinavia. Alongside these commitments she was a Guest Concertmaster of the Risor Festival Strings, Norbotten Chamber Orchestra in Sweden and Associate Concertmaster with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Myee became interested in Early Music performance and took lessons with specialists Lucy van Dael and Margaret Faultless. As a member of the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra she played at festivals in Cothen, Ansbach, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Lucerne, Frankfurt, Oslo and Bergen. After fifteen years away Myee returned home in 2003 and quickly established herself as a versatile performer of both modern and period violin playing. She has toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and been Guest Concertmaster/Leader of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, Sinfonia Australis and the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra. Myee has played chamber music at festivals throughout Australia with Natsuko Yoshimoto, Dimity Hall, Neal Peres da Costa, Daniel Yeadon, Julian Smiles, Emma Jane Murphy, Jane Sheldon and Lucinda Moon. The highlight of her life, however is being mummy to her two gorgeous girls, Freya and Kaia. |
