Pippa Macmillan is a renowned specialist of historical bass instruments. After three years as a core member of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Toronto, she is now living in Australia and works regularly with Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, and Australian Haydn Ensemble. The first undergraduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, to specialise in Baroque Double Bass, she then completed a Masters in Historical Performance at The Juilliard School, New York.

Between 2015 and 2019 Pippa was Professor of Baroque Double Bass at the Royal College of Music, London. She is a fully qualified Suzuki cello teacher, as well as a trained Suzuki double bass and piano teacher. Recently she worked with students from all over the world at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute in Toronto.

Pippa MacMillan has been performing with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra since 2023 and tutors at the Young Mannheim Symphonists education programs.