About
Cellist Stephanie Arnold creates musical memoryscapes combining edited interview material and oral history recordings with music performance and audio art. Tracing voices and histories through this form of musical storytelling, her work focuses on the role of performance as a way to share stories, while mindful of the ethics of interviewing, editing and collecting recorded stories.
Stephanie has spent the last several years developing works using her edited interview material in live musical performance. Her work ‘Across the Water’, a collaboration with composer Robert Davidson, was awarded the Oral History Victoria 2017 innovation award. Other works These Tender Threads and If same is such a thing at all explore ideas of memory and identity, Song and Story she collaborated with artists from Baluk Arts about their artistic practice and Happy to Chat examines how new technology is changing the way we interact with our Uber drivers.
Stephanie has been invited to perform these works in Australia and internationally including Oral History Victoria’s 2016 inaugural showcase, History Council of Victoria’s ‘Making Public Histories’ seminar series, the Australian Oral History Conference, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Melbourne Recital Centre, Canberra International Music Festival, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Musicians in Residence, the Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Montreal and the Peninsula Summer Music Festival.
Stephanie has a Bachelor of Music in Performance (Honours) from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, a Master of Music Performance from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and a Master of Music from the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Germany).
Stephanie works with several Australian based musicians and chamber ensembles, tours regularly with Opera Australia’s regional tour, and performs as part of Solstice Trio.
Stephanie has spent the last several years developing works using her edited interview material in live musical performance. Her work ‘Across the Water’, a collaboration with composer Robert Davidson, was awarded the Oral History Victoria 2017 innovation award. Other works These Tender Threads and If same is such a thing at all explore ideas of memory and identity, Song and Story she collaborated with artists from Baluk Arts about their artistic practice and Happy to Chat examines how new technology is changing the way we interact with our Uber drivers.
Stephanie has been invited to perform these works in Australia and internationally including Oral History Victoria’s 2016 inaugural showcase, History Council of Victoria’s ‘Making Public Histories’ seminar series, the Australian Oral History Conference, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, Melbourne Recital Centre, Canberra International Music Festival, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Musicians in Residence, the Oral History Association Annual Meeting in Montreal and the Peninsula Summer Music Festival.
Stephanie has a Bachelor of Music in Performance (Honours) from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, a Master of Music Performance from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and a Master of Music from the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Germany).
Stephanie works with several Australian based musicians and chamber ensembles, tours regularly with Opera Australia’s regional tour, and performs as part of Solstice Trio.