Celia is Principal Oboe of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Lecturer in Oboe at the Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, and she is currently South Australian representative for ADRS as well as National President. Last year she gave the Southern Hemisphere Premiere of Messiaen’s last work, ‘Concert a Quatre’ in Christchurch, New Zealand. As a soloist she has also performed in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican and on live television at the Royal Albert Hall, sold out at the Three Choirs Festival, Saint David’s Festival with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and partnered Thomas Trotter in chamber music for oboe and organ. As a well known orchestral player and former Chairman of the BBC Symphony Orchestra she has toured and broadcast all over the world, working with some of the best players and conductors in the world on a daily basis. Celia’s performances have always communicated to audiences, with critics describing her as “eloquent” and “marvellous”. Her debut recording for Chandos conducted by Richard Hickox was picked as Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine. Married to the well known oboe repairer Richard Craig, she moved with her family to his native Sydney in late 2006, where she featured in the Australia Ensemble, the Sydney Soloists and most of the Symphony Orchestras in Australia and New Zealand. Her recitals and masterclasses have taken her all over the country and she is currently South Australian representative for ADRS. She has formed an oboe and organ duo with the distinguished organist Amy Johansen with whom she has performed recitals described as ’spellbinding’ and is recording a duo album for the Move Records Label in 2013. A former pupil of Nicholas Daniel, she won many prizes and scholarships while studying at the Purcell School for musicians, the University of York and later at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Celia was Principal Oboe and concerto soloist for the London Chamber Players from 1989 to 1991- at that time she was also awarded an Honarary Associateship by the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded a place as an Sponsored Artist by East Midlands Arts, UK. Her student years found her working with Leonard Bernstein (in the first Pacific Music Festival) and Vladimir Ashkenazy (in the European Community Youth Orchestra) as well as winning the Oboe Prize of the National Festival of Music for Youth in 1988. Celia Craig “..the beauty of this work …… still lingers in this reviewer’s memory (especially Craig’s marvellous handling of the cadenza near the end….). ” – Seen and Heard International