Loreta Fin studied violin at the N.S.W. 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 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, were the winners of the 2004 TOAN 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 and is now honored to be the current National President of AUSTA. She was conductor of the Junior String Ensemble at the Queensland Young Conservatorium for four years 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 tutored at numerous music camps, including the Education Department's Most Outstanding Students' Program. She has published a series of over 30 pieces for young string ensembles. Loreta is an experienced adjudicator, having adjudicated at various 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 Redlands Eisteddfod, the Wynnum-Manly Eisteddfod, the Golden Fiddle Awards and the Australian Strings Association's Junior and Senior String Competitions.

Loreta has played violin and viola in many 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 has also worked with popular Australian groups INXS and Bachelor Girl. Loreta plays violin and viola with the Allegro Vivo String Quartet, the Patrick String Quartet and is Principal Violist with the Queensland Pops Orchestra.