Caroline Almonte

Melbourne-born pianist Caroline Almonte has won numerous awards, has recorded and produced for the ABC and, alongside her performance commitments, teaches piano at the University of Melbourne. She has performed in Europe, the US, China, Japan, Canada and South America, and at the Edinburgh Festival, Teatro Colosseo series, and major festivals in Australia. She has played under conductors Nicholas Braithwaite, Oleg Caetani, Reinhard Goebel, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Richard Mills, Benjamin Northey, Tadaaki Otaka, David Porcelijn and Markus Stenz. Her chamber partners have included, among others, Ralph Kirshbaum, Yvonne Kenny, Ian Munro, Li-Wei Qin, Merlyn Quaife, Miki Tsunoda- Duo Sol , Elizabeth Sellars and Molly Kadarauch in the Sutherland Trio. Previous Engagements have included Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, recitals with Daniel Hope, Sarah Chang and Pieter Wispelwey in Sydney and Melbourne, the Dunkeld Festival of Music with the Australian String Quartet and Musica Viva’s festival at Huntington. She also appeared with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra on the Hush Music Foundation’s album, The Magic Island. Caroline Almonte studied with Stephen McIntyre at the Victorian College of the Arts before completing postgraduate studies at the Juilliard School in New York.