Sacha Gibbs-McPhee
Clarinettist
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Professional Concerts in the Noosa, the Sunshine Coast, and Hinterland, Featuring Australia's Most Elite Musicians
Great Things Come In Small Concerts
The Noosa region is a vibrant hub of art and music enthusiasts. The local choirs, theatre companies, art galleries, orchestras, and fine art societies continue to thrive by entertaining locals, and enticing national and international tourists. Locals demand a higher class of art and culture, and they shall have it.
Noosa Chamber Music (established in 2024 in its prototype Coastal Cadenzas concert series) has established itself as the region's most premium cultural institution, regularly inviting celebrated and prestigious musicians to perform in artfully crafted chamber music programs.
For centuries, legendary composers, soloists, and aristocrats would meet as friends in the opulent chambers of dukes, barons, and kings to play a special kind of music where everyone was a soloist. As music evolved through the Nineteenth Century, chamber music was the medium where composers wrote their most advanced and novel works. These pieces were also the most personal and honest compositions, as they were often writing for loved ones and close friends.
Chamber music demands from every player their complete attention, effort, and passion. The music will not perform itself, and it is the duty of all musicians to uplift their audience's spirit, to comfort and heal, to challenge and inspire, and to dedicate their heart to every note and phrase.
Artistic Director | Sacha Gibbs-McPhee
I grew up in Peregian Beach, where I learned piano from my mother, later taking up the clarinet at the local primary school. Playing in the local youth orchestra, I discovered a yearning to become a professional musician. With a new goal in sight, I moved to Brisbane to study at UQ with the QSO players, and then to London, where I studied at the Royal Academy of Music under the guidance of the LSO and Philharmonia players.
Learning from Europe's best musicians, I gained skills and prestige performing under legendary conductors in famous concert halls and attaining mastery over my instrument.
I returned home because it is my desire to build my own kind of musical institution in my home town, and perform concerts for the local community. Many of the mentors and teachers who guided me as a child still reside in Noosa and the Sunshine Coast. It is thanks to them, and others who supported me during my studies and while I was establishing my performance career, that Australia's best musicians now join me on stage to play the music which has inspired me through my life.
In return, I seek to build an enduring art-music industry in Noosa which delights the public and inspires the next generation of musicians to discover this beautiful art-form and the joy it brings all of us.
Driven by an unshakable will and a passion for the discovery and creation of beautiful art, I promise to offer you the best concerts you have ever attended.
