VIOLA Grace Leehan
Roots:
– New Zealand, South Korea
Education:
– Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours), University of Auckland, Stephen Larsen
– Master of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Prof. Andra Darzins
Musical activities:
– Academy of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
– Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Orchestra
– Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
– Artist you listen to the most
Big Thief
– What is your hidden talent:
Running insanely fast with my viola and a suitcase but only when I am late to catch a bus or a flight, otherwise, I am slow as a sloth.
– Which musicians/composers, dead or alive, would you invite to dinner:
Amy Winehouse, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Julien Baker, Nina Simone, Adrianne Lenker
– Favourite quartet memory:
Every time we blast the music loud and scream-sing in Alma’s car on the journey home after concerts