Double Stopping: How Migration Shaped the Careers of Australia’s Celebrity Violinists

Suzanne Robinson is a former lecturer and research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, the recipient of the Kurt Weill Prize, the H. Earle Johnson Award from the Society of American Music and research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Academy of the Humanities and the State Library of NSW. Her books on modernist composers and Australian music history include Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Composer and Critic (2019).

Curt Thompson is Associate Professor and Head of Strings at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia, and founder and director of the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, Australia. He has held teaching appointments at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, USA and Texas Christian University, USA, and as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician has appeared in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Salle Gaveau in Paris and Shanghai Concert Hall.