FLINDERS QUARTET
Elizabeth Sellars • violin
Sulki Yu • guest violin
Helen Ireland • viola
Zoe Knighton • cello

AGATHA YIM, POLYPHONIC PICTURES filming and editing
THOMAS GRUBB, MANO MUSICA sound engineering, editing and mastering

Filmed November 2025 at Tempo Rubato, Brunswick

This project was made possible through support from The Ian Potter Foundation, Creative Victoria, Besen Family Foundation, and FQ’s Fifth String donors

BEN HOADLEY  b. 1976
DEEP RED CARNATION composed 2025
KATOOMBA composed 2025

Ben Hoadley is a bassoonist and composer working throughout Australia. He is principal bassoonist of the Canberra Symphony and appears as a guest with orchestras including the Sydney Symphony, Orchestra Victoria, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony and others. Ben's compositions include commissions from the Australian National Academy of Music's "The ANAM Set", the Australasian Double Reed Society, the Sydney Omega Ensemble, Chamber Music NZ and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra bassoon section. He has participated in the composer programmes of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, and regularly attended the Nelson Composer's Workshop as a performer and composer. Ben won the NSW Flute Society Composition Contest in 2020 for his work "involute". Ben's Double Bass Concerto was premiered in 2023 by the Auckland Youth Orchestra with soloist Oliver Spalter, and several of his works have also been performed by the Auckland Chamber Orchestra. Ben holds degrees in performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, and as Master of Music (composition) from the University of Waikato, where he won the Lilburn Composition Prize.