Your Committee

Goetz  is Chair of the Strings Department, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Previously, he was Associate Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony. Goetz is founder & director of the Sydney Schubert Ensemble, a chamber music group combining members of the Sydney Symphony and the Conservatorium of music.

Goetz's deep love for the music of Schubert together with his insightful musical,  historical & socio-political analysis of the works, their origin & significance gives  the Schubertiades an extra dimension on top of the deeply moving performances we are accustomed to hear.

Jeanell is Lecturer in Ensemble Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and a sought-after ensemble pianist.

She was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Wollongong and has authored an annotated guide to Australian post-1970 solo piano works, the only such guide in existence.

Richard is a retired computer consultant & mathematician and an amateur classical pianist with his own amateur chamber music ensemble, MAG Ensemble.

His love of Schubert formed as a young kid, when the Unfinished Symphony on 78s was one of his favourite works. He has performed solo piano works for the Australian Musicians Academy including Schubert's Moment Musicaux No 2, for which he received acclaim by Australian composer Dulcie Holland.

Murray is a retired petroleum geologist. In 1974 he was awarded the West Australian Citizen of the Year for the Professions.

In Murray's family, classical music  was not played at all. He was first attracted to classical music as a young teenager by the Disney film Fantasia. Now an avid opera & chamber music fan, his love of Schubert & our Schubertiades knows no bounds.    

Bob first heard about the Sydney Schubert Society from Robert Gay, when attending a lecture course at Sydney University. He has been hooked on Schubert ever since.

The society is very fortunate to have Bob, a retired accountant, as Treasurer

Jan, an amateur pianist, also has an amazingly comprehensive classical music CD collection.

 She is an ex-President of the Northside Opera Study Group and her wonderful all-Schubert monthly 2MBS-FM program, Sydney Schubert Society Presents, is eagerly listened to by many throughout Sydney.

Maire is currently a program co-ordinator for Northside Opera Study Group, and since August 1997, was our hard-working Treasurer.

Her special interest is to find effective ways to publicise our Schubertiades and other  society events with the limited budget at our disposal.

Ross is an engineer and public speaker (former President of NSW Rostrum) who has a love of chamber music. He enjoys the performance intimacy of chamber music and  believes that this is exemplified by the Schubertiades of the Sydney Schubert Society. 

As a life member and committee member, he assists with the promotion of our society.

Our Schubertiades provide an interval in which audience, artists & committee can mingle and enjoy some light refreshments.

Gabby, a retired businessman, applies his practical skills to the job of choosing & buying the food & drinks, managing the table display, and organising the tea, coffee and fruit drinks with quiet efficiency.