Experienced string & ensemble adjudicator

Dr. Imogen Coward is an active performer-researcher (Australia / UK) and teacher specialising in string music, with a particular emphasis on pedagogy, early music, and music interpretation.

Imogen is an active performer, musical director, multi-instrumentalist and singer (featured soloist on the award-winning Canadian film 2BR02B:To Be or Naught To Be dir. Marco Checa-Garcia); and in 2014 she became the founding director of the internationally recognised Australian chamber orchestra Camerata Academica of the Antipodes, dubbed ‘musically combustible’ by Criticks (UK). Her appearances as a soloist include guest artist and speaker for the Solomos Society, and soloist for the University of New England, the Queensland sequicentenary celebrations and numerous chamber music appearances. Imogen has served as an adjudicator for Ryde Eisteddfod’s string section, and as an adviser to schools’ P&C Associations on the founding and successful development of string group programmes, including for Epping West Public and Pymble Public.

Imogen’s qualifications include: Historically Informed Performance and Improvisation studies, PhD (UNE), B.A. Hons First Class (Music), and Diplomas in Suzuki Violin and Viola teaching. She is the recipient of the Commonwealth Government’s prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award for her PhD studies, the Harold Brissenden Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was made a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society for academic brilliance. Her research on music has been published by Cambridge Scholars Press and the University of Otago, New Zealand. Imogen is an active member of the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA) and regularly presents at international academic conferences.