Music Team
Luke Donohoe | Music Program Manger
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, collaboration and community engagement through performance.
Over the past decade, Luke has worked extensively within the choral and classical music sectors, leading the development and growth of ensembles, concert projects and arts initiatives across Western Australia. He is the founder of The Choral Collective and has worked with organisations including West Australian Opera, Western Australian Youth Orchestras, Perth Concert Hall and Perth Theatre Trust, with experience spanning concert programming, event operations, audience 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 a number of Western Australian arts organisations..
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.
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 UWA for 25 years and was Winthrop Professor until 2015. From 2019 to 2022, he was Head of Strings at WAAPA and is currently a Music Fellow at St George’s College.
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.
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, Sydney, Queensland, Tasmanian and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared at festivals for Musica Viva Australia and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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 and is currently a Music Fellow at St George’s College.