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Synesthete and founder of Artaria Ltd, and elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music since 1997, Celia Craig was awarded Exhibitions, Craxton Chamber Music Prize, Advanced and Licentiate Diploma by the UK’s oldest music conservatoire. Trained initially by renowned Hungarian educator, Bela de Csillery, a pupil of both Kodaly and Hindemith, at Kent Junior Music School, a Scholar at The Purcell School with oboist Nicholas Daniel, at the Royal Academy of Music by George Caird, and at The University of York, Celia was invited as a student to the inaugural Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo Japan under personal tuition with Leonard Bernstein.

As an elite orchestral player Celia has toured to five continents, recorded regularly at Abbey Road and Dr Who, played for the Royal Family, elected as Chairman of BBC Symphony Orchestra, London, where she worked closely with artists such as John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Bernard Haitink, Sir Andrew Davis as well as touring and recording with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.

Celia was appointed Principal Oboe of Adelaide Symphony in 2011 and as President of the Australasian Double Reed Society, hosted the ADRS international Conference at the University of Adelaide in 2013. Celia’s first three recordings for Artaria have been well reviewed internationally and as Creative Director of Artaria, she was the winner of Winnovation SA Arts Award 2020, from Women in Innovation in South Australia. In 2020, Arts South Australia awarded Celia a prestigious Fellowship entitled ‘Exploring New Artistic Directions’.

Celia has served on juries for ABC Young Performer, BBC Young Musician, International Oboe Competition Tokyo 2015, coaching young oboists in the majority of UK Music Colleges and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore. She has been a featured artist at Coriole Festival, International Double Reed Society Conferences, Akaroa International Chamber Music Festival, TALIS Festival Sarajevo and was a faculty artist at South America’s largest youth music festival, Campos de Jordao, Sao Paolo.

Resident Artist, National Trust of South Australia, Celia has presented concerts in heritage buildings including Ayers House Museum, where she founded her Signature Series in 2018, and at Collingrove Homestead, Angaston. Celia now teaches in Adelaide at Seymour College, where she is developing a new junior oboe program, the Elder Conservatorium of Music, privately in her home studio, and digitally for OnlIne Virtuoso.

A Howarth of London Artist, Celia is a Finalist in the Australian Women in Music Awards 2022, for Excellence in Classical Music, and a member of the International Double Reed Society’s Honorary Lifetime Membership nomination committee.

With the commitment by the new federal government to renew and reinstate the Creative Australia National cultural policy by the end of 2022, there is a perfect opportunity to complete the Arts Front 2030 work, and promote the ideas and visions for the future that people have contributed over the last five years.

Jul 01 2022 To Jun 30 2023

Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.

Adelaide, Kaurna Yerta
Nov 11 2021 To Nov 12 2021