Music Team
The Music Team brings together extensive experience in artistic leadership, performance, education and program development. Led by Music Program Manager Luke Donohoe, with distinguished performers and educators Paul Wright and Raymond Yong as Music Fellows, the team supports a vibrant musical culture at St George’s College and creates opportunities for residents to learn, perform and collaborate.
Luke Donohoe | Music Program Manager
Luke Donohoe is an arts administrator and music program manager whose work has been shaped by a lifelong involvement in music as both a performer and arts leader. His career has focused on developing music organisations and artistic initiatives that create opportunities for participation.
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Over the past decade, Luke has worked extensively within the arts sector, leading the development and growth of ensembles, concert projects and arts initiatives across Australia. He is the founder of Voyces and The Choral Collective and has worked with organisations including West Australian Opera, Western Australian Youth Orchestras, Perth Festival, Perth Concert Hall and the Arts and Culture Trust, with experience spanning programming, operations, development, ticketing, marketing and organisational leadership.
Alongside his professional work, Luke has remained actively involved in arts advocacy and governance, serving as National President of the Australian National Choral Association and contributing to arts organisations including HIP Company, Wind Quintet Plus, West Australian Young Voices & Mirabilis Collective
Paul Wright | Music Fellow - Violin
Born in Adelaide, Paul Wright began studying violin with Lyndall Hendrickson at the age of eight and, three years later, gained a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. He later studied at the Guildhall School in London before continuing at the Juilliard School in New York under the renowned pedagogue Ivan Galamian.
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Throughout his career, Paul has appeared as a director, soloist and concertmaster with many of Australia’s leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Australian String Quartet, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble of the Classic Era, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
Paul has also enjoyed a distinguished career as an educator and chamber music coach, teaching at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne. He served as Head of Strings at Conservatorium of Music at UWA for 25 years and was Head of Strings at WAAPA from 2019 to 2022.
Raymond Yong | Music Fellow - Piano
Born in Malaysia, Raymond Yong emigrated to Australia at the age of two and later studied piano and conducting at the University of Melbourne under Stephen McIntyre and John Hopkins. A German government scholarship then took him to Hannover, where he undertook advanced piano studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the University of Music and Theater in Hannover.
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Throughout his career, Raymond has performed extensively in Australia and internationally appearing with many of the country’s leading instrumentalists, singers and ensembles. He has been a guest concerto soloist with the Auckland Philharmonia, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared at festivals for Musica Viva Australia and the Melbourne International Arts Festival (now RISING).
Now based in Perth, Raymond combines performance with teaching and research. His doctoral work explored approaches to reducing pain and injury risk for pianists while optimising performance outcomes. Raymond has taught at WAAPA and the UWA Conservatorium of Music.