DeClassified Music | 2025

Musicians:

 

Brieley Cutting - Piano

Described as “such a force!” (Tempo Rubato), “technically assured with excellent control of the keyboard” (Courier Mail), and as having “at her disposal a myriad of different colours and who knows how to take the time to let the music speak” (Auckland Scoop), Brieley is known for bringing her trademark energy and refinement to a career encompassing solo and collaborative performance, event curation, arts promotion and practice-focused research. Also a dedicated teacher, she enjoys sharing her love of music with young musicians. Brieley completed doctoral studies at Griffith University; is an alumna of the Royal College of Music and ANAM, as well as being a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Trust; and she has been winner of numerous competitions, including being National Keyboard Winner of the 2006 ABC Young Performers Awards. Brieley continues to produce DeClassified Music events, with the organisation and its concerts continuing to attract awards and rave reviews. 

 

 

Daniel Lopez - Violin

Daniel's abilities on the violin are a result of training with some of the world’s most celebrated violinists, and a musical lineage that extends to Joseph Joachim and Antonin Dvořák. Hailing from Geelong, he commenced his studies in Sydney with Goetz Richter and Alexandru Todicescu before moving to Brisbane to study with Spiros Rantos. He won a full scholarship to further his studies in Tasmania with Edwin Paling, participating in masterclasses with Jan Sedivka, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Ning Feng, Jennifer Pike, and Antje Weithaas. He won a further scholarship to study in London with Gyorgy Pauk (Royal Academy of Music) and David Takeno (Guildhall School of Music and Drama). Since returning to Australia he has performed regularly with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Australia Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, and many musical theatre seasons. He is concertmaster of the Australian Session Orchestra, and performs on a bespoke violin made by Adele Beardsmore. 

 

 

Eleanor Streatfeild - Cello

Eleanor is the principal cellist and co-director of the Australian Session Orchestra. Her cello studies began in Ethiopia where her family lived until 1994, but soon after moving back to Australia, she began lessons with Anthea Scott-Mitchell at the Newcastle Conservatorium. On a cello scholarship from the age of 13, Eleanor quickly began to build up performance experience in a wide variety of settings; from solo recitals, chamber music, and orchestral playing through to recording sessions and corporate events. This has continued in her professional life, offering her opportunities to travel and collaborate with excellent musicians all over the world. Now based in Sydney, Eleanor frequently performs with the Opera Australia Orchestra, and teaches cello and chamber music at Cranbrook School.

 

 

Andrew Meisel - Double Bass

Andrew Meisel holds the position of Associate Principal Double Bass in the Opera Australia Orchestra. From the age of fifteen Andrew played bass in school orchestras, jazz ensembles and big bands. In 1993, in his first year of university at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, he successfully auditioned for the position of tutti Double Bass with the Orchestra. Andrew studied in Sydney with Brett Berthold, in London with Thomas Martin, in New York with Timothy Cobb and Boston under Ed Barker. Andrew completed a Diploma of Music, majoring in performance, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

 

 

Luke Spicer - Viola

Luke Spicer is an accomplished Australian violist and conductor. He has performed extensively with major Australian orchestras, including as Guest Principal Viola and Tutti Viola (casual) with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and as Tutti Viola (contract) with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. A passionate chamber musician, Luke was a founding member of the Greenway String Quartet, which studied in Freiburg and Manchester, and was awarded the Musica Viva Chamber Music Award (2006) and named a finalist in the Australian Chamber Music Competition (2005). He has collaborated with leading artists including Brett Dean, Kees Boersma, Helena Rathbone, and Marshall Maguire. Luke studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Alex Todicescu and Roger Benedict, and has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor, he has led performances with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Canberra Symphony Orchestra.

 

 

Mark Oliveiro - Composer/Live Electronics 

Mark Oliveiro is an Australian composer-researcher, performer, and educator working at the intersection of experimental electronics, post-glitch aesthetics, and analog synthesis. His practice couples generative systems with creative agency, integrating field recordings, live processing, and multimedia congruency. His research draws on digital autoethnography to situate composition as critical, practice-led inquiry. Oliveiro serves as President of the Australasian Computer Music Association and lectures at the Australian Institute of Music, embedding emerging technologies into pedagogy. His music has been performed by the Decibel Ensemble and collaborators across new-music, EDM, and media-art contexts. He has received commissions from Seamus, the Art Music Fund, and independent performers, creating works that span multimedia chamber music, site-responsive environmental pieces, and algorithmic systems employing Euclidean rhythms and stochastic textures. Across concert, installation, and studio settings, Oliveiro’s projects explore the intersections of culture, technology, and place through textured sound.