 Australian-born Charmian Gadd is an internationally-acclaimed violinist, violist and pedagogue and one of Australia's most famous and eminent musicians.
Gadd is a frequent juror of international solo and chamber music competitions, and is well known to audiences for having been the founding violinist of the Macquarie Trio and the Australian Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville.
With a rich and acclaimed international career spanning over four decades including performing as a soloist, in chamber ensembles, teaching extensively, publishing musical articles and running The Violinery in Sydney, she recently founded Musicians' Own, a concert and musical event series in Lindfield.
Highlights of her international career include solo performances with the Halle, Vienna Radio, Hong Kong, and BBC Orchestras, amongst many others. She has toured extensively internationally, playing in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall and St Johns Smith Square in London. Gadd's Australian engagements include playing with all the major Australian and New Zealand Orchestras and Musica Viva.
Gadd held music professorships at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh (10 years) and Western Washington University. Australian teaching appointments have included Head of the String Department at the Sydney Conservatorium, Head of the String Department at the Canberra School of Music and Head of Selective Performance Program at the Australian Institute of Music (where she mentored the Tankstream Quartet who later became the Australian String Quartet).
With her late husband and founder of Musica Viva, Richard Goldner, Gadd assisted in the development of the Playonair shoulder rest, the Goldner mute, the Cellimate end pin and several other inventions.
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