The Directors

Roslyn Russell

Roslyn, 21, is a fourth year Media and Communications student at the University of Sydney, and is completing additional majors in Government and International Relations and Digital Cultures.

Roslyn first became involved in the Sydney arts scene at the age of 17, working as a volunteer for independent radio station FBi 94.5 FM. After working in various roles over the past four years from Giveaways Coordinator to Media Coordinator, Roslyn recently presented and produced a self-devised radio segment ‘Sound Safari’.

As a musician and artist Roslyn writes, records and distributes songs for free under the pseudonym Zeta Puppis and has received airplay both on FBi and Triple J, being named a Triple J Unearthed Artist of the Week in September 2007.

Roslyn has worked as the bookings coordinator for the Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia (2006-7), as a publicist and artist for independent theatre company Bambina Borracha productions (2007-8), and was an artist at the 2008 Underbelly Public Arts Lab at Carriage Works. Recently she has interned at the 2009 Sydney Festival, taught radio production at Sydney University and worked on the inaugural Creative Sydney festival held at the MCA.

A long-term inner west resident, Roslyn graduated from Burwood Girls High School in 2005. Plans for the future involve undertaking post graduate studies in interactive telecommunications and working as an artist and creative practitioner both in Sydney and the United States.


Jehan Kanga

A rising baroque violinist and early music director, 23-year-old Jehan Kanga represents the next generation in the Australian early music scene. Jehan is currently completing a combined Science (Adv)/Commerce degree with majors in Chemistry, Pharmacology, Finance, and Economics. His passion, however, has always been music and he spends much of his time putting together concert series for various groups around Sydney.

Jehan studied violin under Alex Todicescu from age 14, and under Janos Negyesy whilst on exchange in San Diego in 2008. He has studied historically informed performance practice under Winsome Evans since 2004, and more recently with Neal Peres Da Costa and has performed with The Renaissance Players, The Sydney Conservatorium Early Music Ensemble, Barefoot Musica Antigua, Ensemble Con Brio in the United States, and Trio Poem in Northern Italy. Jehan has also studied conducting under Chris Shepard assisting the Sydneian Bach Choir (2004-5), and under Steven Schick assisting the La Jolla Symphony in 2008. Jehan is currently the artistic director and conductor of The Madrigal Society, and the founding director of Ensemble Con Brio.

Jehan has an exciting future planned, with a tour of Italy scheduled in late 2009 with Barefoot Musica Antigua, and a new production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in the works for 2010. Jehan graduated from Sydney Grammar School in 2004, and currently lives in Gordon in Sydney’s upper North Shore.