Jacqueline Ogeil


Jacqueline Ogeil is an Australian harpsichordist. She studied under Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam ; her other teachers included Colin Tilney in Toronto and John O'Donnell in Melbourne. Ogeil has won several awards, including a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust Award. She has been in demand as an accompanist, but she has toured as a soloist in Australia, Europe and Canada as well.
In addition to Baroque works, Ogeil has performed contemporary repertoire including works by Naji Hakim. In 2001 she founded the Accademia Arcadia as a "Baroque chamber ensemble of high originality." As of 2017 she was still its director and also played a Cristofori fortepiano for Il Diavolo alongside Davide Monti on violin and Josephine Vains on continuo cello.
In 2010, Ogeil was appointed director of the historical house and gardens at Duneira in Mt Macedon.
In 2015, Ogeil was winner in The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards, for her double role as Director of Dunieira and her contribution to the Woodend Winter Arts Festival.

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