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MSV Patrons
STEPHEN MCINTYRE AM
Stephen McIntyre is known nationally and internationally
as one of Australia's most eminent pianists and
teachers.
After initial studies in Melbourne, Stephen McIntyre
worked in France and Italy with Nadia Boulanger, Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli and Guido Agosti. He has
performed as soloist and chamber music player in many
countries, and was Head of the Piano department at the
Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne from 1977
until 1992. He is particularly known for his
performances of French piano music, and his cycle of the
complete piano music of Ravel won the National Critics
Award.
Stephen McIntyre has performed as concerto soloist with
all major ABC orchestras; he has toured extensively with
Russian violinists Valery Klimov, Viktoria Mullova, and
Nelli Shkolnikova, and the renowned Dutch cellist Anner
Bylsma.
Stephen McIntyre was a founding member of Australian
Chamber Soloists, Principal Artistic Advisor for Musica
Viva during 1995/96, and Director of the chamber music
program for the Melbourne International Festival from
1989-99.
Stephen McIntyre is Associate Professor in the Faculty
of Music at the University of Melbourne. In 2003, he
was awarded the Sir Bernard Heinze Prize for
distinguished contribution to music in Australia.
SIR GUSTAV NOSSAL AC, CBE, FAA, FRS
Gustav Nossal was born in Austria in 1931 and came to
Australia in 1939. In 1965 he was appointed Director of
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
a position he held from 1965-1996. Sir Gustav is
currently a consultant for the World Health Organisation
and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also
Chairman of The Global Foundation Advisory Committee. He
was Deputy Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal
Reconciliation from 1998 to 2000. He was knighted in
1977, made a Companion in the Order of Australia in 1989
and appointed Australian of the Year 2000.
PROFESSOR YEAN LENG LIM AM
Professor Yean Leng Lim, an
Australian citizen, born 19th January 1948 in
Singapore, graduated from Monash University with the
degrees of BMedSc, MBBS and PhD. He was awarded the
Inaugural Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award
in 1993 and made a Member of the Order of Australia in
1997 for his contributions to Education and Medicine in
China and Australia.
After spending 5 years serving as the Director of
National Heart Center and Chairman of National Medical
Research Council in Singapore, Professor Lim has
returned to Melbourne recently to take up his new
appointment as Director of Cardiovascular Therapeutics
at the Western Health and a Professorial Fellow at the
University of Melbourne. Professor Lim is a leading
cardiologist in the Asia Pacific region, serving as
Permanent Secretary the Asia Pacific Society of
Interventional Cardiology (APSIC). Prof. Lim has
pioneered coronary intervention in China since 1986, and
helped to establish numerous coronary intervention units
throughout China. In 1995, he founded the Xiame
University Medical College and was appointed its
inaugural Dean until 2000.
At the age of 13, Prof. Lim is the youngest graduate of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and later served as the Chairman of its Board of Directors. He was awarded an Associate Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society of United Kingdom and published his photographic monograph entitled “Eastern Eye Western Light” in 1996. In addition to visual arts, Prof. Lim is also a Patron of The Musical Society of Victoria and Foundation President of the Melbourne Chinese Sacred Music Association.
JOHN HOPKINS OBE
Born in England, John Hopkins was appointed ABC Director of Music in 1963. His
previous positions included Assistant conductor, BBC Scottish Orchestra , Chief
Conductor, BBC Northern Orchestra ( now BBC Philharmonic ). Conductor, National
Orchestra of New Zealand Broadcasting Service ( now N Z S O ) For much of the
six years he was in N Z he was also Musical Director of the N Z Opera Company.
He conducted over 100 opera performances in N Z and helped launch many young
singers in their careers.
From 1973 to 1986 he was the founding Dean of the School of Music at the
Victorian College of the Arts. Melbourne and from 1986 to 1992 , Director of the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Since then he has continued to be very active as
a conductor, administrator and educator in Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa . He now devotes most of his time to teaching conducting at the
University of Melbourne, where he is a Professor.
For more than a decade he was conducting Kiri Te Kanawa's concerts in Australia,
New Zealand and Japan and he has conducted the Australian Opera and the
Victorian State Opera in a wide range of works from Mozart and Puccini to
Sculthorpe and Conyngham.
He has been the recipient of several awards including the O.B.E, in 1970 and the
Queens Jubilee Medal in 1977.
RONALD FARREN-PRICE AM
Ronald Farren-Price’s international career began with
his recognition by the legendary pianist, Claudio Arrau,
under whose guidance his distinctive style of playing
matured.
He has appeared both in recital and as concerto soloist
in the major concert halls of some forty countries.
Among his noted appearances are those at Queen Elizabeth
Hall London, Carnegie Recital Hall New York, Tchaikovsky
Hall Moscow, Philharmonic Hall St Petersburg, Musikhalle
Hamburg, Brahmsaal Vienna, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires,
Sydney Opera House and the Melbourne Concert Hall. He
maintains a highly active touring schedule from his home
base in Melbourne making three or more tours to perform,
teach or adjudicate each year. Highlights in 2005 are a
recital in the Chicago Institute of Art and in Spain.
In Melbourne his annual concert in December to celebrate
Beethoven’s birthday has become something of an
institution. Ronald Farren-Price’s unique success as an
Australian instrumentalist has been his twelve tours of
the former USSR where he played to capacity houses in
the finest musical centres. He is an Honorary Professor
of the Tianjin Conservatory of Music and was a pioneer
in bringing Australian performance to China and to
South-East Asia, including Vietnam where he gave
Vietnam’s first televised concert in the Hanoi Opera
House.
In addition to his career as a concert pianist,
Professor Ronald Farren-Price is a Principal Fellow of
the University of Melbourne where he teaches many of
Australia’s finest young pianists. He has also been
Director of the Australian National Academy of Music.
His recordings are on the Move label. Ronald
Farren-Price was awarded the Order of Australia in 1991
for services to music.
The Musical Society of Victoria congratulates our patron
Ronald Farren-Price on being granted an Honorary
Doctorate of Music by The University of Melbourne.
JOAN CARDEN
Background: Born, Australia. Awards: OBE, 1982, Joan Hammond Award, 1987, AO, 1988, 
D.Univ (SUT) 2000
OA repertoire: Marguerite: Faust, Gilda: Rigoletto, Desdemona: Otello, Leonora: Il trovatore/La forza del destino, Verdi's Requiem. Title roles - La traviata, Lakmé, Alcina, Adriana Lecouvreur, Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica, Tosca. Liù: Turandot, Tatyana: Eugene Onegin, Mimi: La bohème, Donna Anna/Elvira: Don Giovanni, Countess: The Marriage of Figaro, Pamina: The Magic Flute, Fiordiligi: Così fan tutte, Vitellia: La clemenza di Tito, Feldmarschallin: Der Rosenkavalier, Ellen Orford: Peter Grimes, four heroines: The Tales of Hoffmann, Eva: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Alice Ford: Falstaff, Elisabetta: Don Carlos/Maria Stuarda, Public Opinion: Orpheus in the Underworld
Other Companies: Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Metropolitan, Miami, Houston, Kennedy Center, I Solisti Veneti, Australian state companies. Mother Abess in The Sound of Music (Gordon/Frost Organisation)
Recordings/Videos: Great Opera Heroines (Walsingham), Joan Carden Sings Mozart, The Owl (Nigel Butterley), LaTraviata (AO), The People's Diva (RM Associates)
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