About the Artists

Caroline Almonte
One of Australia’s leading soloists, chamber musicians and educators, Caroline Almonte has a wide-ranging career as a pianist, producer, presenter and recording artist. Her awards include the 2019 Australian Women in Music – Excellence in Classical Music Award as well as the ABC Young Performer’s Awards – keyboard and Premio ‘Trio di Trieste’, Italy. She has performed throughout Australia and in Canada, China, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South America, U.K and the United States, including appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, Shanghai International Piano Festival and Teatro Colosseo Series in Buenos Aires.Caroline studied with Stephen McIntyre at the Victorian College of the Arts and Oxana Yablonskaya at the Juilliard School, New York.

Jennifer Trynes
Composer Jennifer Trynes studied at the University of Sydney where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Music; her special interests being Composition and Aboriginal Performing Arts. Trynes has composed a number of piano works for student pianists of all levels. Her Progressive Piano Series is, like Bartok’s Mikrokosmos, a graded series of pedagogically oriented compositions in which Trynes’ stated aim is to fill a need for lively and varied music with a fresh, modern approach for students of today.