Phoebe received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho, and was the recipient of the Dorothy DeLay Violin Scholarship. She has also studied at the Australian National Academy of Music with Dr. Robin Wilson and was an Emerging Artist with Australian Chamber Orchestra. In 2023, Phoebe was awarded the ANAM Eva Besen Scholarship to attend the Karajan-Akademie, the training organisation of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

As an orchestral musician, highlights have included an Australian national tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as well as tours throughout Europe and the United States with Berliner Philharmoniker and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. Phoebe has also performed as guest Principal Violin of London Symphony Orchestra, Boulez Ensemble (Berlin) and Ensemble Apex (Australia). Whilst at Karajan-Akademie, she performed as concertmaster in projects lead by Sir Simon Rattle, Lisa Batiashvili and Marc Minkowski.

Awards and prizes in recognition of Phoebe’s work include the Nora Goodridge Young Artist Award from The Australian Music Foundation, 2nd prize in the Fine Music 2MBS FM Young Virtuoso Award, 1st prize in the Fontainebleau Chamber Music Competition, as well as prizes from the Adelphi Young Artist Awards and the National Young Arts Foundation in the United States. Phoebe has also received scholarships to several summer festivals including Valdres Sommersymfoni, Conservatoire américain de Fontainebleau, Aspen Music Festival and the Perlman Music Program Summer Music School and Chamber Music Workshop.
A prizewinner of the 2020 ANAM Concerto Competition, she was invited to perform Mozart Violin Concerto No.5 in A Major, K.219 with the ANAM Orchestra as part of Mostly Mozart Festival. The performance was broadcast by Australian Digital Concert Hall, who described it as “the most brilliant, uplifting performance you could ever imagine”.

Artistic collaborations have included recordings of new solo and chamber music works commissioned for the New York Choreographic Institute, New York City Ballet and Juilliard Choreographic Workshop. Phoebe has presented recitals with the Stearns Point Quartet, including special performances for the Perlman Music Program in New York and Florida. In 2020, Phoebe performed in several concert series presented by Australian Digital Concert Hall, including their first ever broadcast, with Beethoven’s Eighth Violin Sonata, and Mendelssohn and Beethoven String Quartets for ADCH x ANAM. She also recorded Mendelssohn String Quartet No.4 in E minor with the ‘Dacelo’ Quartet for special broadcast by The Violin Channel, and was an artist with the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and Castlemaine Chamber Music Festival.

Phoebe is grateful to be the current recipient of the Deconet violin (ex Castelberg), generously on loan from the Martha von Castelberg Stiftung. Read more about the Stiftung here.