ADRS Committee

Susan is a freelance oboist and teacher based in Melbourne, Australia.

She completed her Bachelor of Music Performance from the VCA in 2001, studying with Anne Gilby.

She regularly plays Oboe/Cor Anglais in John Foreman's Aussie Pops Orchestra and Crosswinds Ensemble. Past productions have included Oboe/Cor Anglais in The Production Company Orchestra for: Ragtime, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Oklahoma!, Brigadoon and the Melbourne productions of Mary Poppins (Disney Theatrical) (2010 and 2023), Dr Zhivago (Gordon Frost), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (TML Enterprises), South Pacific (Opera Australia) and Wicked (Crossroads Live). 

Susan has worked as a Woodwind Tutor for the Victorian Youth Symphony Orchestra and Oboe Tutor for State Music Camp. 

She presented a solo recital of all Australian music at the 2023 International Double Reed Conference in Thailand.

Susan is the Victorian representative of the Australasian Double Reed Society (ADRS) and is passionate about promoting and encouraging double reed players of all ages and levels. She has fond memories of mass double reed ensembles - which included 30 oboists and bassoonists playing together in the living room of her first teacher, Sue Taylor!

Jill Noble became the national treasurer of ADRS in April 2025. She lives in Adelaide. She has been playing the oboe for most of the last 45 years. She is an enthusiastic amateur, playing in the Norwood Symphony Orchestra, Cumberland Park Orchestra and various chamber music groups.

Professionally, Jill is a retired Chief Financial Officer, with degrees in Science (Computer Science & Mathematics), an MBA, and a Master of Commerce (Accounting). She is a Fellow of the Certified Practising Accountants (FCPA) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Since retiring, Jill continues to work as a Board director, in both professional and volunteer Boards, including as Treasurer of Chamber Music Adelaide, and the Norwood Symphony Orchestra.

Hailed by the Daily Telegraph as “a new star…who wields his instrument with virtuosic skill and with moves you usually associate with a rock guitarist”,  Matthew Kneale is one of Australia’s leading lights on the bassoon.

He was the first ever bassoonist to be awarded the prestigious Freedman Classical Fellowship. Matthew used this award in late 2019 to embark on an international concert tour that aimed to shatter preconceived notions by presenting the bassoon as a brilliant solo and chamber entity in its own right, with a strong emphasis on music by Australia’s leading young composers.

Matthew is a founding member of Arcadia Winds, Australia’s leading young wind ensemble, and Musica Viva’s inaugural FutureMakers musicians. With Arcadia Winds Matthew appears as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals and venues around Australia.

Anne recently retired from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra where she was Principal Bassoonist for thirty years. She continues her involvement in music in solo appearances and with various West Australian ensembles including the Perth Symphony Orchestra and the Perth Chamber Orchestra. Anne teaches in a number of schools where she is a strong advocate for the use of the Mini-Bassoon in upper Primary Years.

Alan, originally from Adelaide started both oboe and bassoon in his student years; oboe initially took over after a stint in the ABC Training Orchestra in 1968 which led to playing 2nd Oboe and Cor Anglais firstly in the Elizabethan Trust Sydney Orchestra, later in 1975 moving to Hobart (yea!) and playing in the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra retiring from there in 2001. In retirement (?!) there has been quite a bit more bassoonerie, both on Baroque and also his beloved Buffet.

Alan has been the ADRS Treasurer for 15 years and is a muched loved member of ADRS.

Secretary Stephen Moschner is a founding member of the ADRS in 1996 and studied Oboe at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Victorian College of the Arts. He is a busy administrator as well as performer and has worked with orchestras in Australia and overseas, and on events ranging from the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games to local concerts.

Caryl started the bassoon with Thomas Wightman at the Elder Conservatorium in the early 70s and has been playing ever since.

Caryl is a founder member of the Unley Symphony Orchestra and has also played with many other community groups throughout Adelaide. After teaching English and French at various State Secondary Schools she is now happily retired and plays regularly withthe Arbor Wind Quintet, Flinders University Chamber Ensemble, AdelaideSummer Orchestra and Notos Nonet.

She has been an active committee member of the SA Branch of ADRS for the last 10 years and is the sub-editor of Reeding Matter.

Christina has been a member of ADRS since 2016 after attending the National Competition in Sydney, NSW. Since then she has been a big supporter of ADRS, taking on the website in 2018 and becoming the QLD State Rep in 2024. 

Christina began her formal musical journey on Oboe and Violin in the UK before moving to Australia in the early 1980's. With oboe as her primary instrument Christina joined the RAAF in 1985 becoming the first woman musician in an Australian Airforce Band where she stayed until 1992. After a 25 year break from music,  Christina took up the oboe again as an avocational musician playing whenever she gets the opportunity which includes playing in Dubbo & District Concert Band, Tin Roof Big Band and Orange Symphony Orchestra before moving to Toowoomba, Qld. Christina is the Principal Oboe of Toowoomba Concert Orchestra, Toowoomba Concert Band and also a member of the Navy Veteran Band. In the past two years in Toowoomba Christina has also played with the Toowoomba Philharmonic Society as a member of the orchestra and as a solist as well as a Toowoomba Choral Society musical "Les Miserables", Bardon Strings, in Brisbane, Ars Cantorum as guest soloist. She is also the founding member of Bottle Tree Ensemble which includes 3 oboists / Cor Anglais, bassoon and strings playing mainly baroque music.

Christina is passionate about supporting other musicians regardless of age and encouraging adults to engage with playing wether it be to learn to play, or to take up an old school hobby.