Rachael Beesley

"My senses are my feedback."

Rachael Beesley is an internationally renowned Australian/British violinist, director, concertmaster and educator specialising in the field of historically informed performance.

Rachael has performed in festivals and concert halls worldwide as guest concertmaster with Europe’s most distinguished HIP ensembles and orchestras, including Anima Eterna Brugge, La Petite Bande and the New Dutch Academy, and as guest director of Les Muffatti in Brussels and NZBarok in Auckland.

As a highly regarded educator and mentor, Rachael teaches and lectures at the Melbourne and Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag, The Netherlands, and at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University.

Rachael has been awarded an Ian Potter Cultural Trust grant and is listed in the ‘Who’s Who of Australian Women’.