Haylie Ecker (born 9 October 1975) is an Australian performer, writer, artistic director, and the former first violinist and co-founding member of the multi-platinum selling classical crossover string quartet Bond. With Bond she sold over 4 million records and accrued 43 platinum and gold records internationally. She left Bond in 2008 to become a mother. She plays a 1751 J.B. Guadagnini. Career Ecker moved to London in 1995 on a music scholarship to later gain First Class Honours BMus-GSMD and a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Solo Studies from Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She won the Guildhall School Of Music And Drama's Maurice Warshaw Prize for Chausson's Poeme, and The Ivan Sutton Award for chamber music. Ecker toured Japan playing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in nine cities, with Western Australian Youth Orchestra 1997. She later played with Luxembourg Philharmonia. In 1998, pushing boundaries, Ecker co-founded Bond with three of her friends, alongside music producers Mel Bush and Mike Batt. Bond launched their recording and performing career to a sold-out concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was later released through Decca as a concert DVD: Live At Albert Hall. The DVD went on to win platinum status in the US along with other international regions. 2001–2010 Ecker worked with Magnus Fiennes on the animated cartoon series Freefonix in which she plays the character Syun, who has the superpower to manipulate time via extraordinary violin skills. Ecker is a featured artist on Zucchero Fornaciari's album "Zu & Co." on the platinum award-winning track Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, (Parlophone). Ecker presents for Classical Destinations Education Series 1, released internationally in 2007. Ecker debated against British Cultural commentator Norman Lebrecht on BBC Breakfast, which led to further invitations to debate current music issues on British media, including The Mozart Effect on LebrechtLive for BBC Radio 3 and a discussion on The Music Manifesto and music education with Julian Lloyd Webber on BBC2 TV's Lunchtime Show. Ecker recently toured with and recorded on Oi Va Voi's latest album. In 2008 Ecker arranged and recorded the strings for the BAFTA-nominated film Adulthood. Ecker left Bond in 2008 and moved to Hong Kong with her family. She took a break to have children and focus on her family. 2011–present In 2011 Ecker co-founded and was artistic director of PLAY!, a highbrow classical concert series for children, under the umbrella group of Premier Performances Hong Kong (www.pphk.org).