Chronology…

• Pinchgut Opera debut at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, in co-production with Opera Australia of Handel’s Theodora.
• Australian Chamber Orchestra Beethoven’s Emperor national tour with Kristian Bezuidenhout directing the ACO from the 2009 ANU McNulty Graf.
• Asian harpsichord maintenance tour visiting Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta.
• 35th International Competition for Early Music in Yamanashi.
• Twenty-fourth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.

• Australian Chamber Orchestra Four Seasons national tour with Joseph Tawadros, oud.
• Premiere of Caroline Shaw’s Harpsichord Concerto with Vatche Jambazian & Omega Ensemble.
• Resumption of Asian harpsichord maintenance tour, servicing a total of fifty-seven instruments in Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and throughout Taiwan.
• Post-COVID pandemic return as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Addition of Kevin Fryer Ottavina to our hire fleet, making its debut in Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s twelve-concert sellout Ottoman Baroque series.
• Filming of Mozart’s Sister documentary.

• Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Circa program for Sydney Festival.
• Concert debut of the restored 1775 Jacob & Abraham Kirckman double-manual harpsichord at Adelaide Festival, with Erin Helyard directing Australian Haydn Ensemble in three programs on the one day.
• Resonance: Chamber Landscapes at UKARIA for Adelaide Festival.
• Four Winds Festival at Bermagui.
• Roland Peelman directed Sydney Chamber Choir and Australian Haydn Ensemble in the first Australian original instrument performance of Haydn’s The Creation, live streamed on Australian Digital Concert Hall from Sydney’s City Recital Hall.
• Australian Chamber Orchestra national tour of Bach program using Ruckers Double and Fortepiano.
• Delivery of the Sydney Conservatorium Ruckers Double.
• 2003 Ruckers Double featured at Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville.
• Preparation of the ANU McNulty Graf for two Schubert cycles with Erin Helyard & David Greco at Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival.
• Pinchgut Opera’s Spiritual Forest & Women of the Pièta programs presented in Sydney and Melbourne as well as two opera productions: Cesti’s Orontea, and Charpentier’s Médée.
• Three performances of Sydney Philharmonia’s Messiah marked return to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall following its AUD150M rebuild and acoustic transformation.
• Australian Haydn Ensemble tour of CPE Bach: Universe of Harmony program, directed by Chad Kelly from the 1775 Kirckman.

• Sydney Symphony Orchestra performances @ Barangaroo for Sydney Festival.
• Many concerts and festivals cancelled with COVID-19 lockdowns.
• Two concert performances with Erin Helyard on fortepiano at UKARIA, accompanying baritone David Greco, then violinist Richard Tognetti.
• Delivery of the ANAM Ruckers Double.
• Pinchgut Opera’s Monteverdi Vespers presented in Sydney and Melbourne as well as two opera productions: Cavalli’s Apollo & Daphne, and Rameau’s Platée.
• Advice to anonymous US benefactor leading to the December 14 establishment in Japan of The Couperin Foundation for the Growth and Preservation of the Harpsichord.

• Run of Opera Australia’s summer season Don Giovanni completed before COVID-19 pandemic shutdown entire performing arts sector in March.
• Travel restrictions force cancellation of all usual interstate and overseas commitments, including Yamanashi Competition & Carmel Bach Festival.
• Completion of the ANU School of Music Ruckers Double six months ahead of schedule.
• Pinchgut Opera film A Delicate Fire with music of Barbara Strozzi.

• Final concert in Joyce DiDonato’s In War & Peace—Harmony Through Music Asian tour for Abu Dhabi Festival, with Il Pomo d’oro directed by Maxim Emelyanychev, opening the 2016 Ruckers Double harpsichord.
• Two Melbourne performances of Purcell’s King Arthur on Gabrieli Consort & Players’ first Australian tour.
• A Brief History of Time: Chamber Landscapes at UKARIA for Adelaide Festival.
• Concert performances of Don Giovanni with Freiburger Barockorchester/René Jacobs in Shenzhen and Bahrain.
• Appointed to International Editorial Board of Harpsichord & Fortepiano journal.
• Asian harpsichord maintenance tour, visiting Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur & Singapore.
• 2nd International Conference on Performance and Creativity: Historical Keyboard Music 1700–1850, hosted by Hong Hong Baptist University.
• Twenty-first year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Restoration completed of 1775 Jacob & Abraham Kirckman double-manual harpsichord.
• Australian Chamber Orchestra ten-concert Intimate Bach tour.
• 1770 Baker Harris spinet featured in Sydney Living Museums “Songs of Home” exhibition.
• Release of the final two François Couperin volumes (8 & 9) of Mark Kroll’s The Complete Pièces de clavecin recorded on the original 1776 Christian Kroll at the Chateâu Villarceaux, Chaussy, Val d’Oise, France.
• Two opera productions with Sydney’s Pinchgut Opera: Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria & Vivaldi’s Farnace.
• Sydney Philharmonia Choir’s 600-voice Messiah live-streamed by ABC Classic from Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

• Soundtrack for the 3D live-action/CGI animated adventure comedy film Peter Rabbit.
• Release of Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), posthumous album of legendary Yolŋu musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (1971–2017).
• Asian harpsichord maintenance tour, visiting Singapore, Penang, Hong Kong, Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Osaka, Yamanashi & Tokyo.
• Twentieth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• 1842 Broadwood square pianoforte on longterm loan to Sydney Living Museums for exhibition and concert use at Elizabeth Bay House.
• Fifth visit to Muscat, Oman, servicing instruments for Royal Opera House, Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra, and Bait Al Barakah & Qasa Al Alam Royal Palaces.
• Two opera productions with Pinchgut Opera: Handel’s Athalia & Hasse’s Artaserse.
• Preparation of Christophe Rousset’s original late 16th-century Italian harpsichord for his solo Frescobaldi recording on the Aparte label.
• Live broadcast from Melbourne Recital Centre of Vivica Genaux with Orchestra of the Antipodes.

• Asian maintenance tour visiting Bangkok—including concert & masterclass with Michele Benuzzi—& Singapore.
• Sole Australian appearance of Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini performing Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo for Adelaide Festival.
• ABC Classics solo recording by Erin Helyard playing Handel and Babell on the 1773 Kirckman.
• Nigel Kennedy’s The New Four Seasons in Sydney and Melbourne.
• Sydney Opera House debut of Mahan Esfahani on solo harpsichord.
• Three national tours with Australian Chamber Orchestra including Christmas Oratorio.
• Asian harpsichord maintenance tour, visiting Taipei, Kaohsiung, Seoul & Hong Kong.
• Nineteenth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Emergency trip to Hobart for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
• Release of Mountain documentary with Australian Chamber Orchestra soundtrack.
• Return visit to Shanghai for rejuvenation of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra harpsichord & Music China exhibition.
• Two opera productions with Pinchgut Opera: Rameau Triple Bill & Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea.

• Thirtieth year providing the early keyboard needs for Opera Australia.
• Musica Viva / Opera Victoria Voyage to the Moon tour.
• Second & final Brisbane Baroque festival, sadly just prior it entering liquidation.
• Many concerts with Sydney Symphony Orchestra including Haydn’s Creation with Maasaki Suzuki.
• 29th Early Music Festival, including International Competition for Early Music, Yamanashi.
• Annual Asian harpsichord maintenance tour, visiting Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore & Bangkok.
• Eighteenth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Two projects with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra: JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion & Haydn’s Creation.

• Hobart Baroque festival moved north to become Brisbane Baroque.
• Visits to Sydney by Tafelmusik and Les Arts Florissants.
• Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti The Four Seasons tour & reprise at year end.
• Contributor to second edition of Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments ISBN 978 0 19 974339 1.
• First concert in Joyce DiDonato’s Drama Queens Asian tour with Il Pomo d’oro at Royal Opera House Muscat.
• Annual maintenance tour, visiting Muscat, Bangkok, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Seoul, Hong Kong & Singapore.
• Two performances of Haydn’s Creation with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
• Twelve-concert tour in June with Richard Egarr directing the Australian Chamber Orchestra from 2003 Ruckers Double harpsichord & fortepiano.
• Two matching Grimaldis (1990 & 1995) used for Pinchgut Opera’s midyear production of Vivaldi’s Bajazet.
• Seventeenth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Opening of the Scotch College Melbourne Ruckers Double harpsichord with Donald Nicolson.
• Return visit to Shanghai for the Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music & Music China exhibition.

• Akademie für alte Musik Berlin at Sydney Festival.
• Second Hobart Baroque festival.
• 27th Early Music Festival, including International Competition for Early Music, Yamanashi.
• Annual maintenance tour, visiting Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Penang, Singapore, Bangkok, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Muscat & onwards: 14 countries in 99 days, 25 sectors totaling 39903 miles flown on 9 different airlines.
• Recipient, National Trust of Australia (NSW) 2014 Heritage Award (Conservation—Interiors & Objects) for restoration of 1773 Kirckman.
• Sixteenth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Red Bull Flying Bach on tour: Thirteen performances on the 2003 Ruckers Double in Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide.
• Four recordings released, including two versions of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
• All hire harpsichords requilled with Canada goose.

• Early keyboard instruments make a welcome return to Sydney Festival with eleven performances.
• Classical music meets breakdance with four sellout Sydney performances of Red Bull’s Flying Bach Tour—and another four in Melbourne.
• Inaugural performance on the Royal Opera House Muscat Ruckers Double harpsichord by Ton Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
• First Hobart Baroque festival.
• Maintenance tour, visiting Taipei, Kaohsiung, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur & onwards.
• Inaugural performance on the Pymble Ladies’ College Ruckers Double harpsichord with Paul Dyer AO.
• Fifteenth year as harpsichord technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Orfeo, crossing the Ganges for Akadêmia in New Delhi.
• Special visit to Shanghai for the Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
• Debut of the restored 1773 Kirckman harpsichord by Richard Egarr leading the Academy of Ancient Music on their Australian tour for Musica Viva.

• Maintenance visit to Wellington for New Zealand School of Music.
• 25th Early Music Festival, including International Competition for Early Music, Yamanashi
• Maintenance tour visiting eight Asian cities, Helsinki and Paris—as well as Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Lima, Ottawa & Panama City for the first time.
• 75th Anniversary Season of Carmel Bach Festival.
• 1951 Honolulu Challis restoration.
• Eleven-concert tour with Richard Egarr directing the Australian Chamber Orchestra from harpsichord & fortepiano.
• Restoration commenced on the 1773 Kirckman harpsichord.
• Masterclass & outdoor concert on 2003 Ruckers Double in Dubai with Byron Schenkman & Seattle Baroque.

• YouTube Symphony String Concert.
• Twenty-fifth year providing the early keyboard needs for Opera Australia.
• First visit to Muscat, Oman.
• @hpschdnu established on Twitter and ran until December 2019.
• Maintenance tour visiting Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok & onwards.
• Christophe Rousset solo recitals sold out in Tokyo & Osaka for East Japan Earthquake Benefit.
• Maintenance visit to Helsinki & Paris.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Maintenance visit to San Juan & Honolulu.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• QANTAS Lifetime Gold Frequent Flyer.
• Maintenance visit to Papeete & Auckland.
• Regular maintenance in Singapore en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.
• 2000 Ruckers Single used for LG 3D TV commercial.

2010

• Maintenance tour to Singapore & onwards.
• Harpsichord preparation in Shenzen for Trevor Pinnock concert with Emmanuel Pahud & Jonathan Manson.
• Invitation to Shanghai to assist musicians of the The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague.
• Maintenance in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Seoul, Tokyo, Honolulu & Anchorage.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, including Béatrice Martin solo recital.
• Collaboration with acoustician Neville Fletcher to co-author “Harpsichord and Clavichord” chapter for Thomas Rossing’s The Science of String Instruments ISBN 978 1 4419 7109 8.

• Miriam Allan & Ironwood tour for Musica Viva.
• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• Maintenance tour visiting Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Helsinki, Paris & onwards.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Maintenance in San Juan & Honolulu.
• Carmel Bach Festival, with feature article in the program book Keyboard Musing or Tuning on the Fly.
• Maintenance in Singapore en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.

2008

• First soundboard painting of Australian flowers and fruits rendered in the style of early Ioannes Ruckers by Diana Ford.
• 2003 Ruckers Double Harpsichord supplied for Nigel Kennedy tour with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
• Maintenance in Singapore & Hong Kong.
• Recognition of tenth year as keyboard technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Shooting in Carmel for Intermezzo Number 1, a short portrait documentary by Douglas Mueller subsequently shown at Nashville Film Festival and Ozark Foothills Film Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu.
• Regular maintenance in Singapore en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.

• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• Maintenance tour visiting Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Penang, Singapore, Bangkok, Helsinki, Paris, Cairo & onwards.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Visited Mexico City & San Diego.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• YouTube hpschdnu channel established.
• Maintenance visit to Honolulu.
• Maintenance in Darwin to coincide with visit by Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.
• Regular maintenance in Singapore en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.
• First year providing early keyboard needs for Pinchgut Opera.

• Concerts with Collegium Vocale Ghent at Singapore National Arts Festival.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu.
• Music China exhibition in Shanghai.
• Regular maintenance in Singapore en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.
• Invitation to Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow.
• Neapolitan harpsichord sent to Thursday Island for Vast Productions film 4.

• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• Maintenance tour visiting Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Penang, Singapore, Bangkok, Helsinki, Milan, Florence, Paris, Istanbul, London, Dublin & onwards.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Maintenance in San Juan & San Diego.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu.
• Regular maintenance in Singapore en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.

• Complete Brandenburg Concertos at opening concert of 2004 Franco-Flemish Double for Singapore Symphony.
• Klop continuo organ added to hire fleet.
• QANTAS Platinum Frequent Flyer.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance visit to Singapore & Bali en route to Greenwich International Festival and Exhibition of Early Music.

• Debut concerts of 2003 Ruckers Double with Les Arts Florissants/William Christie opening Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore.
• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• Maintenance tour visiting Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Helsinki, Paris, Stockstädt (Stockstädter Musiktage), London, Athens & onwards.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu.

• Colin van der Lecq internship.
• Le Pupitre harpsichord editions made available worldwide.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu.
• Maintenance tour visiting Berlin (Berliner Tage für Alte Musik), Paris, London (London International Exhibition of Early Music), Helsinki & Singapore.
• First fully imported entry-level instruments from Atelier Marc Ducornet.
• Portrait painted by Judith Johnson.

• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• Maintenance tour visiting Tokyo, Osaka, Daegu, Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Bangkok, Helsinki, Stockstädt (Stockstädter Musiktage), Paris, London & onwards.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu.
• Daniel Johns used 2000 Ruckers Single for Across the Night, first track on silverchair’s Diorama recording.

• Chris Berensen for Work Experience.
• Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance tour visiting Singapore, Paris, Berlin (Berliner Tage für Alte Musik), Hamburg, Leiden, London (London International Exhibition of Early Music), Paris & Milan.
• Presented maintenance course over several days for Master’s degree harpsichord students at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.

• Bamboo Organ Festival, Manila.
• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• Maintenance tour visiting Osaka, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, London, Paris & onwards.
• Four performances with Opera Atelier at Singapore National Arts Festival.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Establishment of THE PARIS WORKSHOP: Continued collaboration with Marc Ducornet.
• First construction manual written, for builders of our TPW Delin spinet.
• Visit to Toronto & Vancouver.
• First season as early keyboard technician at Carmel Bach Festival.
• Maintenance in Honolulu and visited Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch on return to Sydney.

• hpschd.nu domain registered.
• Sell-out solo Rameau program in Government House for Sydney Festival by Christophe Rousset on the 1991 French Double.

• Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition.
• London & Paris.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Visited Toronto, San Francisco, Auckland & Wellington.
• Final issue (#31) of Harpsichord News Brief.

• Regular visit to Hong Kong (coinciding with Igor Kipnis on Kirkpatrick’s 1966 Dowd), Bangkok & Singapore (American Bach Soloists tour, using the Restored antique harpsichord).
• Initial visit to Kuala Lumpur (presented lectures to music students at four different universities) & Jakarta.
• Final CBH Annual Open Weekend.
• First fortepiano concerts in China with English early music group Florilegium accompanying Pieter Wispelwey.

• First visit to Japan for Yamanashi Kofu Harpsichord Contest & Exhibition & invitation to inspect the new Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments.
• Visit to Auckland en route to Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Met with colleagues in San Francisco, Boston & New York.
• Prolonged sojourn in Stonington, London & Paris followed by Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge.
• Extended maintenance visit to Bangkok, Singapore & Hong Kong.
• CBH website established.
• Restoration of typhoon-damaged Rädecker & Lunau Square Pianoforte c1832 from Hong Kong.

• Ton Koopman visit with Australian Chamber Orchestra.
• Extended maintenance visit to Hong Kong, where two workshops were run.
• First visit to Taiwan.
• First visit to mainland China in response to invitations from the Xi’an Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
• Maintenance visit to Singapore & Papua New Guinea.

• One month residency at Hong Kong University.
• Prepared Kirkpatrick’s 1966 Dowd for Colin Tilney recital in Hong Kong.
• Instrument featured in Stirling Macoboy’s book Macoboy’s Roses.
• Met with colleagues in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Iowa City, Charlotte & Charleston en route to Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Extended sojourn in Stonington, London and Paris.
• Met with clients in Singapore.

• Performances by visiting Bolivian harpsichordist Teresa Laredo.
• Three operas in Sydney for The Australian Opera.

• Almost-new 1990 Grimaldi chosen by Christopher Hogwood for The Australian Opera’s production of La clemenza di Tito.
• Met with colleagues in Honolulu, San Francisco, Denver, San Antonio & New York en route to Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition.
• Fifth intensive study period at Stonington workshop, mounting a French Double.
• Prolonged visits with associates in London & Paris.
• First overseas commission, Large Clavichord for a private owner then resident in Hong Kong.
• First maintenance visit to Hong Kong.
• First Australian harpsichordist on CD: “Ayers Barock” track for didjeridu & harpsichord included on Australian Made… Australian Played… OZM1008.
• Tenth CBH Open Weekend, a National Arts Week event.

• First year providing early keyboard services to Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.
• Work noted in Mike Atherton’s book Australian Made… Australian Played….
• The Australian Opera tour of Così fan tutte to Perth.
• Huntington Estate Music Festival.

• Workshop moved to brand new 150m2 premises in Peakhurst with showroom & mezzanine office.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Met with colleagues in San Francisco, Boston & New York.
• Fourth intensive study period at Stonington workshop.
• Prolonged visits with associates in London & Paris.
• Preliminary visit to Bangkok & Singapore.
• Flightcase commissioned.
• First harpsichord maker in the world with a mobile phone.
• First year providing early keyboard services to Australian Chamber Orchestra.

• TV commercial for Tudor watches in two languages for Hong Kong release.
• Instrument on show at World Expo, Brisbane.
• Four operas using harpsichord in The Australian Opera season for the Australian Bicentenary year.
• First harpsichord maker in the world with a fax machine.

• Abandoned dual instrument making/performing career to concentrate on harpsichord making.
• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Met with colleagues in Boston & New York.
• Repeat invitation to be tuner/technician for Malcolm Bilson’s Fortepiano Summer School at Cornell University, NY.
• Third intensive study period at Stonington workshop, building Flemish Double.
• Prolonged visits with associates in London & Paris.
• Investigated museum collections in London, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Marseilles, Florence, Rome, Naples, Milan, Paris, Chartres & Johannesburg.
• Met with colleagues and clients in Cape Town, Johannesburg & Harare.
• Instrument appeared in ABC-Revcom production of Captain James Cook mini-series.

• First season providing the early keyboard needs for The Australian Opera.
• Clavecin by Candlelight recitals in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney & Melbourne: First for Australian harpsichordist playing same program on same instrument in four cities.

• Instrument List service established.
• Tuner/Technician for Malcolm Bilson’s Fortepiano Summer School at Cornell University, NY.
• Second intensive study period at Stonington workshop.
• Perused museum collections in Boston, New York, Washington DC & New Haven.
• First visit to Europe to peruse museum collections in London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Nuremburg, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Milan, Zurich, Geneva & Paris.
• Prolonged stays with associates in London & Paris.
• Appearance in two TV commercials for Marshall Cavendish Great Composers series, including Beethoven composing at the fortepiano.

• Appearance in TV commercial playing 1983 Flemish Single for Philips Stereo Video.
• Three-city piano history lecture tour with Maribel Meisel.

• Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition.
• Met with colleagues in Boston, New York, Washington DC & Los Angeles.
• First intensive study period with David Jacques Way at Stonington Connecticut workshop, building Flemish Single.
• Investigated original instruments in museum collections in Boston, New Haven, New York & Washington DC.
• Accredited Harpsichord Teacher by NSW Conservatorium.

• First BMus Harpsichord major to graduate from NSW Conservatorium, along with Paul Dyer and Denise Patton.
• Harpsichord performance diploma: Fellow of Trinity College London (FTCL).
• Took over THE HARPSICHORD CENTRE as owner retired from Canberra to return to UK.
• Appointed youngest ever International agent for Zuckermann Harpsichords Inc.
• First commission, French Double Harpsichord for Canberra School of Music.
• Joined Australian Association of Musical Instrument Makers.
• First issue of Harpsichord News Brief.
• First CBH Annual Open Weekend.

• Carey Beebe Harpsichords business name registered.
• Commenced tuning professionally for NSW Conservatorium of Music.
• Harpsichord performance diploma: Licentiate of Trinity College London (LTCL).

• Completed first harpsichord with father, Zuckermann French Double IV with wooden jacks and crow-quill plectra.

• Admitted to Bachelor of Music course at NSW Conservatorium of Music as Piano major, studying with Head of Keyboard Department, Gordon Watson.
• Organ study with Christa & David Rumsey.
• Changed major to harpsichord at end of first semester for study with Robert Goode.

• Awarded piano performance diploma in final year of high school: Associate of Music Australia with Distinction (AMusA).