Carla Blackwood

Carla Blackwood enjoys a diverse career performing as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician both in Australia and internationally.  Carla is committed both to the performance and promotion of new music and to historically informed early music performance.  On historical natural horns Carla is principal horn of the Orchestra of the Antipodes (Pinchgut Opera) and the Australian Haydn Ensemble.  On modern horn Carla performs regularly with the Australia Ensemble, Lyrebird Brass, Australian Wind Quintet, Ensemble Liaison, Melbourne Chamber Players and Quercus Trio, and is a regular guest principal horn with orchestras around Australia.  Carla is French Horn Lecturer at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Horn Faculty at the Australian National Academy of Music.

Prior to taking up her current position in Melbourne Carla was Principal Horn of the Tiroler Symphonie Orchester Innsbruck and Professor for Horn at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Austria. During her 13 years living in Europe, Carla performed as guest principal horn with orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Sinfonie Orchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Camerata Salzburg, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Swedish Philharmonic Orchestra.  Carla has held contracts in a number of orchestras across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 

Originally from Bathurst, NSW, Carla has a Masters of Soloist Performance from the Zürich Hochschule der Künste and a Masters in Performance from the Musikakademie der Stadt Basel, as well as a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her teachers have included Christian Lampert, Horst Ziegler, Hector McDonald and Radovan Vlatkovic on modern horn, and Thomas Mueller and Glen Borling on the natural horn.

.