Sacha Gibbs-McPhee is quickly gaining prestige as a chamber musician, soloist, and freelance orchestral clarinettist. As the director of his own concert series Noosa Chamber Music, he performs alongside Australia's best and most famous musicians in original programs that manifest his artistic vision.

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Born and raised in Queensland, Australia, Sacha learned the piano from his mother and started learning the clarinet at school, attending music festivals including the USQ McGregor Summer Schools where he studied with Martin Crook (former Associate Principal Clarinet of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra) and the AYO Young Symphonists program at fourteen, where he was tutored by Christopher Tingay. At fifteen, he performed his first concerto, a premiere of an original work by Michael Bakrnčev. He began tertiary study at the University of Queensland, where he interned and performed many concerts with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, graduating 2016 after winning the school's most prestigious competition, the Donald Tugby Performance Prize and playing Principal Clarinet with the Queensland Youth Symphony on their Queensland tour performing Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and other works under Sergei Korschmin, and piccolo clarinet in a performance of Stravinsky's original Firebird ballet under John Curro AM MBE. At this time he studied with the clarinettists of the QSO and performed concerti with the Brisbane City Pops Orchestra. Soon after graduation, he was accepted into a master's program at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Christopher Richards (LSO), Timothy Lines, Andrew Marriner, and Patrick Messina. Sacha was selected to represent the Academy in solo and chamber performances around the country, and was featured as principal clarinet in the Academy Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Orchestra in works including Mahler's Ninth Symphony under Semyon Bychkov, Iolanta and L'enfant et les sortilèges under Gareth Hancock, and an early performance of the recently discovered Funeral March for Rimsky-Korsakov by Stravinsky. During his studies at the Academy, Sacha was engaged in performances and professional development with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, also performing with Bloomsbury Opera, ARC Ensemble, the Glen Gould School, and performed the Premiere Rhapsody with the world's preeminent Debussy scholar, Dr Roy Howat.

As an authority on clarinet performance, he has been invited to adjudicate the Queensland Clarinet and Saxophone Society annual competition and the Toowoomba Eisteddfod. He regularly performs in the pit for ballet, opera, and music theatre productions, and on stage with symphony orchestras. His clarinet and bass clarinet playing can be heard in recordings of works written by the esteemed British/Australian composer Sam Wedgewood, and award winning Australian composer Nicole Murphy.

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Sacha has played under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, Pascal Rophé, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Johannes Fritzsch, Gareth Hancock, Tahu Matheson, Mathieu Herzog, Adam Hickox, Michael Poll, Antoni Bonetti AM, and the late Oliver Knussen CBE. He has performed alongside esteemed Australian concert pianist Simon Tedeschi, Ex-QSO Concertmaster Warwick Adeney, ABC Young Performer winner Hoang Pham, pianist Dr Nicholas Young, Ex-WASO Concertmaster Daniel Kossov, popular concert pianist and director of Brisbane Music Festival Alex Raineri, respected Australian pianist, harpsichordist, and Baroque specialist Janet Brewer, Australian violin soloist Dr Courtenay Cleary, Hungarian soprano Judit Molnár, Latvian string soloists Margarita and Roberts Balanas, triple-Grammy-winning flautist Tim Munro and members of every Australian symphony orchestra. He has performed as principal clarinet with the Sinfonia of St. Andrews, and frequently performs as principal clarinet with the Cadenza Chamber Players, Ballet Theatre Queensland's resident orchestra led by Dr Lucas D Lynch. Thanks to the patronage of generous sponsors such the Cope-Williams Arts Trust, Sacha is regularly performing recitals across Australia.