Learn from Australia's Finest

With an international performance career spanning Australia, the United States, and Europe, Adele has appeared at leading chamber music festivals including the Music Academy of the West, and has worked with ensembles such as the Australian Opera, the Omega Ensemble and the Australian Haydn Ensemble. A recent artistic highlight includes the curation of a chamber music masterclass and side-by-side performance at Barker College, featuring the Mendelssohn Octet alongside Sydney Symphony Orchestra musicians including Andrew Haveron and Simon Cobcroft. She has contributed as a guest artist within El Sistema–inspired programs. Her teaching focuses on developing independent, collaborative musicians through a rigorous and artist-led approach to ensemble playing.

As a soloist, Dene has worked with all of the Australian Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, performing over forty concertos with conductors including Edo de Waart, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Vladimir Ashkenazy. He gave the Australian premiere of Lutoslawski's Chain 2 with the composer conducting, and has premiered violin concertos by Carl Vine, Ross Edwards, and Richard Mills. He previously held the position of Leader and Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and has served as Artistic Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Sydney Opera House. His recording of Ross Edwards' Maninyas won the 1994 ARIA Award for Best Classical Recording, and his Elgar recordings with the Goldner Quartet were selected as Gramophone magazine's Record of the Month. He attended the Juilliard School from age fourteen as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian, graduating with a Master of Music and the Morris Loeb Prize, and in 1985 became a Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Violin Competition.