About Loreta Fin
A.Mus.A., L.Mus.A., ATCL
Loreta Fin studied violin at
the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She was a first violinist with the
Sydney Youth Senior Symphony Orchestra, and later tutored and conducted
several of the groups within the Sydney Youth Orchestra Association.
She also taught at Sydney Grammar School before moving to Brisbane in
1988. At present, she holds the position of Director of Strings and
Instrumental Music at Somerville House Girls’ School and conducts and
oversees the school’s String Orchestras. There are over 500 students in
the instrumental music program, which includes more than 200 string
players from Year 3 to Year 12. All of the string ensembles have been
successful in competitions over the years and the senior group,
Somerville Strings, was the winner of the 2004 Orchestra Australia
Award for excellence in school orchestral music.
In addition to her teaching
commitments at Somerville House, Loreta was the President of AUSTA
Queensland (Australian Strings Association) from 2001 to 2004 was the
National President from 2005 to 2007. At the 2015 AUSTA National
Conference Loreta was presented with the AUSTA National Award in
Recognition and Appreciation for Outstanding Service within the String
and Music Community of Australia. She has taught at the Queensland
Young Conservatorium, lectured in String Pedagogy at the University of
Queensland and is a Violin and Viola Examiner with the Australian Music
Examinations Board (AMEB). Loreta has conducted workshops for the
Australian Strings Association and the Australian Band and Orchestras
Association. She has presented at National Austa String Conferences and
in 2009, presented at the American String Teachers Association
Conference in Atlanta. Loreta has tutored at numerous music camps,
including the Education Department’s Most Outstanding Students’ Program
and is in demand as a guest conductor for school festivals. She has
published a series of over 50 pieces for young string ensembles. Loreta
is an experienced adjudicator, having adjudicated at all major
Queensland festivals and competitions, including the Australian Academy
Festival of Music, the Gold Coast’s Tropicarnival, the Catholic
Schools’ Music Festival, the Sunshine Coast Eisteddfod, the Golden
Fiddle Awards and the Australian Strings Association’s Junior and
Senior String Competitions. In 2015 she was invited to conduct the
String Orchestra at the Queensland State Honours Ensemble Program.
Loreta has played violin and
viola in many freelance professional productions at the Queensland
Performing Arts Centre, including Les Miserables, Joseph and his
Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, The King and I, The Wizard of Oz,
Phantom of the Opera and the English Ballet’s production of Swan Lake.
She has also worked with many well-known artists, such as Natalie Cole,
Dionne Warwick, Shirley Bassey, Jerry Lewis, Gene Pitney, Kate Ceberano
Sarah Brightman, Rod Stewart and Marina Prior and played in the
Brisbane season of The Main Event, starring John Farnham, Olivia Newton
John and Anthony Warlow. She also performed in the Brisbane season of
The Boy from Oz starring Hugh Jackman. Loreta has been Principal
Violist with the Queensland Pops Orchestra for over 10 years.
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