Hatched: Where Are They Now?
Thursday 25 June, 2026
Every year since 2014, one outstanding Australian instrumentalist who demonstrates a passion for new music has been selected as Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched Emerging Performer. Before you apply for the 2027 Hatched Emerging Performer program, check out what our past performers have been up to!
2014: Jeremy Rose
Jeremy runs Earshift Music, the record label he founded in 2009, and is a mover and shaker around Sydney as a jazz saxophone player and academic at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His bands The Vampires, Visions of Nar and the Jeremy Rose Quartet regularly tour Australia and the world.
https://www.jeremyrose.com.au/
2014: Callum G’Froerer
Originally from Perth, Callum has been part of the Melbourne experimental music scene for many years. He recently purchased a double bell trumpet (the only one in Australia) and has commissioned a lot of Australian music for it as well as performing as part of leading experimental music festivals in Melbourne.
2015: Jacob Abela
In demand as a pianist and an ondes Martenot player (the instrument that Messiaen uses extensively in pieces such as Turangalila), Jacob is a member of Melbourne’s new music group, Rubik’s Collective. He recently joined Ensemble Offspring and Sydney Chamber Orchestra for the opera Gilgamesh and performs regularly with the MSO.
https://linktr.ee/jacobabela
2015: Jodie Rottle
Dr Jodie Rottle is a creative flutist, researcher, lecturer, composer, and improviser who explores the curious and surprising sounds of everyday objects. Her work within music often extends into performance art, puppetry, circus, installation art, and interdisciplinary realms. She is a member of the two-time Queensland Music Award-winning Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra.
https://www.jodierottle.com/
2016: David Moran
David Moran is a cellist and artistic researcher specialising in contemporary performance practice. He has appeared in performances across Australia and internationally in solo, chamber, orchestral, and multidisciplinary contexts. David is an ensemble member of Moirai and Wattleseed Ensemble and a casual cellist with the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras.
https://www.davidmoran.com.au/
2016: Jules Reidy
Guitarist Jules Reidy is currently based in Berlin and works across song cycles and electro-acoustic composition for solo performance, ensembles and spaces. Their music explores devotional love, transcendence, and ego death, invoking states of uncanniness, dissociation, imagination, and void. They have recently written for Zinc&Copper, JACK Quartet and the Australian Art Orchestra.
https://julesreidy.com/
2016: Mary Rapp
Dr Mary Rapp plays the cello, bass and sings, exploring jazz, classical, experimental and Korean traditional music. In 2022, she spent 6 months in Seoul studying traditional Korean singing, and in 2023 she completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
https://maryrapp.com.au/
2017: Luke Carbon
Luke Carbon is a woodwind multi-instrumentalist and educator based in Melbourne. He studied at the Queensland Conservatorium and the Australian National Academy of Music and regularly appears as a guest musician on both clarinets and saxophones with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, Victorian Opera and conducts wind bands on the side.
https://www.lukecarbon.com.au/
2017: Kieran Welch
Kieran Welch is an Australian curator, production manager, violist, DJ, writer and educator based in Melbourne. Kieran is the founder and co-director of the post-genre concert series Dots+Loops. His ongoing commitment to culture and community has already been recognised at a national level, as the recipient of the 2022 APRA AMCOS Queensland Luminary Award for "sustained contribution to the creative music culture of Brisbane as a performer and artistic director".
https://www.kieranwelch.com/
2018: Georgina Oakes
Georgina performs internationally as a soloist, as well as a chamber musician and in orchestras, having appeared in New York, Siena, England, Sweden and Japan. Now a Mum of three, she has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris), and The Diaghilev Festival Orchestra (Russia).
https://georginaoakesdotcom.wordpress.com/
2019: Henry Justo
Winner of the 2023 Freedman Classical Fellowship, Henry is a violist from Brisbane, Queensland who is now based in Edinburgh. In Australia he has performed with Sydney Chamber Opera, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Apex, most of the major Australian symphony orchestras, and more recently across the UK with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC and Royal National and Scottish Symphony Orchestras.
2020-2021: Will Hansen
Will is an Australian double bassist currently based in Essen, Germany where he is doing postgraduate studies. He is as comfortable as a soloist as he is with orchestras and performs regularly with Theater Osnabrück and has previously performed with SPIRAL, Ensemble Onsombl, Ensemble Apex and the Australian String Quartet.
2022: Eliza Shephard
Winner of the 2022 ABC Young Performers Award, Eliza Shephard is highly sought after internationally in solo, chamber, and orchestral situations. Her multi-year project ‘March of the Women’ celebrates female composers, and her course ‘The Extended Flute’ details experimental flute techniques and has been presented Australia-wide. A recipient of the Ian Potter Emerging Performers Fellowship, Eliza commissions, records, and produces exciting and vibrant musical adventures, championing her instrument as a storytelling machine!
https://elizashephard.com/
2023: Abbey Felton
Abbey is currently based in Glasgow, where she has just finished her Master's of Music Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her practice is people centred: collaborating with composers and performers to create new music, working alongside other instruments in chamber settings, writing music for and performing alongside dancers, and programming works by living composers. She is looking forward to attending the 2026 Bang on a Can Summer Course as a performance fellow, and returning to Western Australia in late 2027 to establish a contemporary music ensemble.
https://www.abbeyfelton.com/
2024: Alice Morgan
Alice is a Sydney/Eora-based musician, educator and producer who frequently appears with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as Guest Principal Saxophone. She is currently taking part in the 2026 Young Performers Awards and in 2027 she will tour with pianist and Hatched Alumni Ronan Apcar as a Musica Viva Featured Artist. Alice is also an experienced producer and orchestral manager as one of the founding members of Ensemble Apex.
https://www.alicemorgan.com.au/
2025: Ronan Apcar
Ronan Apcar is a pianist, musician, and composer with a reputation for versatility, edge, and tenacity. His love for music across many styles - jazz to the avant-garde, contemporary art music to house music – translates into his open-minded, exciting, and unique work as a musician. He is an ANAM graduate and from the start of our 2026 season, Ronan was invited to join Ensemble Offspring as a core musician. He is currently in Europe taking part in the Andriessen Academy and more.
https://www.ronanapcar.com/
2026: Arkie Moore
In 2025, Arkie was Associate Principal Trumpet on the recent Australian Youth Orchestra International Tour to Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, performing under David Robertson (NYC) in venues including the Concertgebouw (AMS) and Musikverein (WIE). She has performed with renowned groups such as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia, Victorian Opera and Sydney Lyric Orchestra to name a few, and is a core member of the Jazz Composers Co-op big band. She has also been a part of the Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra four times and is our 2026 Hatched Emerging Performer - Arkie is joining us for lots of concerts in 2026 so don’t miss her!
This could be you! Apply now for the 2027 Hatched Emerging Performer program. Expressions of interest are due by Sunday July 12, 11:59pm. Please note we are only accepting strings and woodwinds (including saxophone) for 2027.
