Nicole E Wood

Hailing from Hill Top, New South Wales, Nicole E Wood is 25 year old Melbourne based violinist and violin teacher. Nicole completed her Bachelor of Music at the University of Melbourne in 2017 and her Bachelor of Music, Honours at the University of Tasmania in 2019.

Throughout her undergraduate in Melbourne Nicole received The Lionel Gell Foundation Scholarship-MCM in 2017 and The EC Wellisch Bequest Scholarship in 2016. At the start of 2017 Nicole travelled to Manchester in the United Kingdom to complete a six-month educational exchange at the University of Manchester. She immediately rose to a position of respect and became the principal second violin in several of the Manchester University Music Society orchestral concerts.

During her honours Nicole received the University Scholarship in Orchestral String Instruments in 2018, was a finalist in the Tasmanian OSSA prize and D&MV McDonald Scholarship in Music and was admitted to the Executive Dean’s Honour Roll upon completion of her degree in 2019.

Nicole is a sought-after violinist for corporate events, musical pit work and orchestral performances in Melbourne and around Australia. Her flexible and energetic playing enable her to contribute to a large variety of performance styles. Most recently she has performed the Mozart Requiem as part of The Tasmanian Conservatorium Camerata with members of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, performed solo for The Damler Doty 2019 awards at The Forum and as the solo violinist in the premier performances of Jack Frost the Musical.