Apollo Trio

Maria Lindsay, Violin

Thomas Tsai, Cello
Thomas Tsai studied with Georg Pedersen at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he completed his DSCM , majoring in cello. Following graduation, he was awarded various scholarships for overseas studies. He was invited by Lynn Harrell to join his 'Gregor Piatigorsky Cello Class', at the University of Southern California, completing Masters in Music Performance.
During that time he won various awards, including being the first recipient of 'The American Symphony Scholarship' for outstanding musical performance. In addition to solo recitals, he also performed as soloist with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Symphony Orchestra.
Since commencing his professional career, Thomas has worked with the Glendale Symphony Orchestra (Los Angeles), Japan-American Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed many solo and chamber music recitals since returning to Australia in 1995, and has recorded for the ABC Classic FM and 2MBSFM radio stations. He plays a 1690 Giovanni Grancino and a 1934 AE. Smith.
Thomas is very active performing in Sydney and teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Barker College.

Daniel Herscovitch, Piano
Melbourne-born pianist Daniel Herscovitch studied with Alexander Sverjensky at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and later under Rosl Schmid in Munich. During his twelve years in Germany he not only performed extensively on the continent and in England but also undertook three extensive Australian tours. He appeared at several international festivals such as the Zagreb Biennale and the Saarbruecken Tage der Neuen Musik, and his performances were broadcast by  major European networks such as the BBC, RIAS Berlin and Bavarian Radio.

Since returning to Australia he has been active in both solo and chamber music, and has appeared at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the New Directions Festival and the Festivals of Melbourne and Sydney. He has toured for Musica Viva and his recent New Zealand tour included performances at the Bay of Islands Festival. He has been guest artist with Synergy, Flederman, the Song Company and the Australia Ensemble and has toured with the Seymour Group. He  has also made regular appearances at the Sydney Spring Festival of New Music. At the 2003 Sydney Symphony Contemporary Music Festival he was soloist with Natalia Ricci in the first Sydney performance of the Bartók Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra and in 2004 was again one of the SSO's featured  concerto soloists. He was a founding member of both Symeron and the eclectic collective and partners he has appeared with include Wanda Wilkomirska, Josephine Allan, Christopher Latham, David Pereira, Gerard Willems, and Carl Vine. His repertoire ranges from Bach to Carter and includes contemporary Australian, European and American works, many of which he commissioned and premiered.

Since 1996 he has been lecturer in piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and his recordings of repertoire ranging from Mozart to Smalley have been released on Tall Poppies, CSM, Continuum and ABC Classics labels.