From a young age, Jared was a keen participant in many different festivals and events, studying and performing chamber music on both violin and viola under Gabriel Bolkowski at PhoenixPhest Chamber Music Festival in 2013, and successfully auditioning into several district orchestras in Northern Virginia, USA. Throughout high school, Jared continued to seek out opportunities and learning experiences, having participated in orchestras all throughout his studies, eventually becoming concertmaster of the School Orchestra and the Alastair Mackerras Chamber Orchestra at Sydney Grammar School from 2018-2019. Jared also successfully auditioned to be concertmaster of the Australian Combined Schools Music Festival Orchestra, and the Young Mannheim Symphonists Winter Academy, the latter of which kickstarted his interest in historically informed performance. In Year 12, he received Encore Nominations for both Composition and Performance, and ranked 3rd in NSW for HSC Music Extension.

After graduating in 2019, Jared entered the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra as a tutti player and has since performed with them as principal second violin and concertmaster. At the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Jared was awarded the Jean Giles and Thomas Louis Pidcock Violin Scholarship and has participated in a number of orchestral programs ranging from string and symphonic orchestras to the Early Music Ensemble with Erin Helyard and Neal Perez da Costa, which he led in 2021. Throughout university, his orchestral career has continued to grow, performing as an Emerging Artist with both the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and the Australian Haydn Ensemble, as a tutti player on national tours with ARCO and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and leading the 2nd Violins in the Landa Chamber Orchestra at AYO National Music Camp in 2023. Aside from pursuing early music, he also enjoys exploring modern repertoire, workshopping and performing new solo and chamber works composed by his peers, and in 2022, leading the New Music Ensemble at the Sydney Conservatorium.

During her time as an undergraduate, Issie’s musicianship has been recognised with various prizes: winner of the Richard Pollett String Prize (2021) and 4MBS Musica Viva Sid Page Chamber Music Prize with Viridian Piano Quartet (2022), as well as runner-up in the Sleath String Performance Prize (2022). As a soloist, she has performed Bruch Violin Concerto with Indooroopilly Chamber Orchestra (2023) and appeared frequently in the Queensland Youth Orchestras Morning Music Recital Series. Issie was awarded her AMusA in Violin Performance during her Year 12 studies at Somerville House (2018).

An engaged orchestral player, she has in recent years held positions of Associate Principal Second Violin and Principal Second Violin in Queensland Youth Symphony; Associate Principal Second Violin, Principal Second Violin and Associate Concertmaster in the University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra; and Principal Second Violin in University of Queensland Pulse Chamber Orchestra. Further, she was accepted into the Australian Youth Orchestra's 2023 National Music Camp, where she played second violin in the Landa Chamber Orchestra under the direction of violinist Elizabeth Layton.

Issie enjoys researching and writing about music. Her Honours thesis, for which she received the Donald Tugby Musicology Prize (2022), examined thematic syntax in Felix Mendelssohn’s concerto forms using analytical models from a recent nineteenth-century branch of New Formenlehre. She is also fascinated by the French language and is studying a Diploma of Languages majoring in Advanced French.

During her time as an undergraduate, Issie’s musicianship has been recognised with various prizes: winner of the Richard Pollett String Prize (2021) and 4MBS Musica Viva Sid Page Chamber Music Prize with Viridian Piano Quartet (2022), as well as runner-up in the Sleath String Performance Prize (2022). As a soloist, she has performed Bruch Violin Concerto with Indooroopilly Chamber Orchestra (2023) and appeared frequently in the Queensland Youth Orchestras Morning Music Recital Series. Issie was awarded her AMusA in Violin Performance during her Year 12 studies at Somerville House (2018).

An engaged orchestral player, she has in recent years held positions of Associate Principal Second Violin and Principal Second Violin in Queensland Youth Symphony; Associate Principal Second Violin, Principal Second Violin and Associate Concertmaster in the University of Queensland Symphony Orchestra; and Principal Second Violin in University of Queensland Pulse Chamber Orchestra. Further, she was accepted into the Australian Youth Orchestra's 2023 National Music Camp, where she played second violin in the Landa Chamber Orchestra under the direction of violinist Elizabeth Layton.

Issie enjoys researching and writing about music. Her Honours thesis, for which she received the Donald Tugby Musicology Prize (2022), examined thematic syntax in Felix Mendelssohn’s concerto forms using analytical models from a recent nineteenth-century branch of New Formenlehre. She is also fascinated by the French language and is studying a Diploma of Languages majoring in Advanced French.