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On the move: Latest sector appointments

Strong appointments in the music sector, including AD for Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and new General Manager at Tura.

25 Apr 2022

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

Major new appointments in the music sector. Image: sup[lied by Always Live.

The Board of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra has announced Sophie Rowell as the organisation’s new Artistic Director, marking a new era for the MCO, and the third to take the role in MCO’s 30-plus year history.

As a well respected and recognised violinist, Rowell has been Concertmaster of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 2015, was founder of the Tankstream Quartet, appointed to the Australian String Quartet and was winner of the 2000 ABC Young Performer’s Award.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.