Anouvong

Described as “electric” (The New York Times) and “fresh and inspirational” (The Adelaidean), flutist Anouvong Liensavanh has collaborated with members of the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo String Quartet and faculty from the Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. Anouvong has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, The Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge, Hamer Hall and Melbourne Town Hall, and has performed with the Australian Youth Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Yale Schola Cantorum and New Music New Haven. In 2011, Anouvong was awarded a fellowship by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, where he was a featured artist in the New Yorker magazine. A passionate advocate of music education, Anouvong served as an Undergraduate Lecturer in Flute and a Chamber Music Coach at Yale University, Guest Lecturer at Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music as well as a Teaching Artist in the Yale Music in Schools’ community engagement program. He has given masterclasses at many educational institutions including the Royal College of Music (London), Royal Academy of Music (London), San Francisco Conservatory and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. His students have gained entry to Ivy League schools including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia Universities and have won orchestral positions in professional orchestras throughout the United States. Anouvong holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from SUNY Stony Brook under the direction of Carol Wincenc. As a recipient of the Yale School of Music Irving S. Gilmore Fellowship and Scholarship, he holds a Master of Music Degree from Yale University, having studied with Ransom Wilson. He completed a Bachelor of Music degree with 1st Class Honours in 2008 at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide with Associate Professor Elizabeth Koch OAM, and received numerous awards throughout his study including an Elder Conservatorium Entrance Scholarship, the Victor Edgelow Memorial Scholarship, the May Gepp Pont Scholarship, the Honours Priority Scholarship and the EMR Traveling Scholarship. Anouvong was also the recipient of the 2009 Helpmann Academy Adelaide Bendigo Bank Award for the most outstanding arts graduate in South Australia.