Pat Murphy at tutti world youth music beijing

Pat Murphy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Tutor Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp 2008
Former Tankstream Quartet, Grainger Quartet

Cellist Patrick Murphy was recently appointed Cello Performance Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Music. Prior to this he was Lecturer in Cello at the University of Tasmania, Hobart Conservatorium. He has also taught cello and chamber music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and worked with the Sydney Symphony and Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

Patrick started learning the cello at the age of 8 with Rosemary Iversen in Perth. He completed his Bachelor degree studying with Gregory Baron and Michael Goldschlager before spending several years with the Halcyon String Quartet. Their studies took them to the UK and Canada where they were resident artists at the Banff Centre for the Arts and studied with David Takeno and Zoltan Szekely (Hungarian Quartet). Patrick then completed a Masters Degree studying with Alexander Ivashkin and Natalia Pavlutskaya.

Patrick has an extensive background in chamber music performance, and was a founding member of the Tankstream Quartet (now Australian String Quartet) whose international career was launched after winning first prize in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Japan 2002. They went on to be prize-winners in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition (2003) and soon after were invited to play at the reception of the wedding of Danish Royal Wedding of Crown Prince Frederick and Princess Mary Donaldson in Fredenborg Castle, Copenhagen.

Patrick was the cellist of the Grainger Quartet until 2008. Patrick was a tutor at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp in 2008. He has performed with many Sydney ensembles such as “Halcyon” and Ensemble Offspring - both ensembles dedicated to contemporary music; Sydney Philharmonia, and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.