live recorded concerts in the radio's archives and was featured in 2010 in a series of live NPS portrait CDs in co-operation together with the low countries' classical music magazine Luister. In 2012, Murphy was appointed music advisor to the Netherlands' Prinsjes Festival. Between 2012 and 2019, he was curator of the Classical & Jazz Stage at the Netherlands' Embassy Festival. In 2019, Murphy received the Charles Burney Award from the Dutch national Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Education and early years Murphy received his early, music tuition as a music scholar at the Scots College in Sydney. He completed his undergraduate studies in the areas of music performance, musicology and fine arts at the University of Sydney in 1996. He studied the viola with Russian-Australian Leonid Volovelsky and early music performance with Hans-Dieter Michatz and Geoffrey Lancaster. He taught at The University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, and played in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under conductors David Porcelijn and Hans Vonk. Murphy moved to the Netherlands in 1996 where he was further educated by the leading lights of the Dutch early music revival. He studied baroque viola with Alda Stuurop at the Utrechts Conservatorium (between 1996 and 1999) and performed extensively with legendary figures including Frans Brüggen and Gustav Leonhardt in leading European authentic instrument ensembles such as The Orchestra of the 18th-century. Between 2000 and 2005, Murphy was also the violist of The Amsterdam String Quartet. For his study, he was awarded grants by the Sir Ian Potter Foundation and the Netherlands Performing Arts Fund. Recitals Alongside his conducting activities, Murphy is active as a viola soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, also performing on Bach's own hand-held violoncello piccolo (also known as the viola da spalla or viola pomposa). On this instrument, he was invited to give a special of recitals in original Bach castles as part of the Bachfest Leipzig and Thüringer Bachwochen. His recital partners have included harpsichordists Menno van Delft and Mahan Esfahani, and lutenist/guitarist Karl Nyhlin. Teaching Murphy has given masterclasses, workshops and lecture-recitals at international institutions including The Royal Conservatory of The Hague; The Royal College of Music, Stockholm; The Sydney Conservatorium of Music; Central Conservatory, Beijing; The Glinka Conservatorium, Nizhny Novgorod; and The Getty Center, Los Angeles on topics including historically informed performance. References External links Artist's Official Website http://www.simonmurphyconductor.com Official Website of The New Dutch Academy https://web.archive.org/web/20130626000623/http://thehaguebaroqueorchestra.com/ and http://www.newdutchacademy.nl Pentatone http://www.pentatonemusic.com Australian conductors