This is Bryan’s fourth year with AYO (1st Violin) and he is in his third year studying piano performance at the University of Auckland. Bryan was appointed Assistant Manager in 2019....
Mary Lin
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Anne-Marie Forsyth
My involvement with the AYO began in 1989 and I spent 10 years as an official member of the viola section and an undisclosed number more as an unofficial player. I bounced backwards and forwards between the second and third desks and consider my main contribution to have lain in my exemplary counting skills!...
Helen Lewis
A retired chartered accountant, Helen has been AYO’s Treasurer since 2011. Helen is involved with several ensembles as an amateur violinist, particularly the St Matthews Chamber Orchestra and the Devonport Chamber Orchestra. Naturally she is a past AYO player!...
Alexander Cowdell
After a career as a longstanding first violinist with the English National Opera (ENO) Orchestra and a freelancer for a time with the London Symphony Orchestra, Alex returned to New Zealand in 2005. Alex is also a composer. He began composing seriously in the 1970s and his compositions have been performed and broadcast in Britain,...
Antun Poljanich
Born in Croatia, Antun studied piano in Dubrovnik, Ljubljana and Austria. Winning a scholarship to attend a three-year Master Course in Conducting at Leningrad’s Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory provided Antun with the opportunity to subsequently work with the Leningrad State Symphony Orchestra, the Veneto Philharmonia, the Slovene and Croatian National Orchestras and other prominent orchestras in...