Galston Concerts "Paris to Budapest" Clarinet & Piano

Name: Galston Concerts "Paris to Budapest" Clarinet & Piano
Start: 2026-02-22T14:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-02-22T14:00:00+11:00
Location: Galston Uniting Church

About

Kimberley Steele is a collaborative pianist, conductor, classroom teacher, and the Director of Voice at Radford College (Canberra). She graduated from the Liszt Academy of Music, with performance highlights including playing for Kodály's wife Sarolta in their family home, and memorising the formidable Dante Sonata by Liszt. At Sydney University she was recognised with a Geoffrey Parsons Scholarship, and at the Australian National University she won the Margaret Smiles Accompaniment Prize. She has been featured by the NSW Accompanists' Guild and Artsound Canberra, performed two concertos with the National Capital Orchestra, and accompanied tertiary performance students in Canberra for over a decade. Favourite artists to work with have included Alexander Knight (baritone), Anna Murakawa (violin) and her flagship ensemble the foray quintet. On June 21 she will return to the Galston stage with a vocal ensemble of Elegies.

Milan Kolundzija has been playing and teaching as a clarinettist in Canberra for the past eight years. A graduate of the Australian National University’s School of Music, Milan completed his classical clarinet studies with First Class Honours under the tutelage of Jason Noble (Ensemble Offspring), Alan Vivian (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra) and Dr Eloise Fisher (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra). In 2022, he made his solo debut as one of the performers featured in the ANU Orchestra’s Concerto Gala. In 2023, Milan was selected as an inaugural fellow of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Kingsland Fellowship. Milan has performed with a variety of ensembles in Canberra and interstate including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.