Currently bassoonist with Sydney Sympony Fellowship. Melissa Woodroffe was born in Brisbane and studied clarinet for two years at the University of Queensland, completing her AMUSA with premier clarinettist Paul Dean in 2006. She then commenced bassoon at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with Leesa Dean, graduating in 2008 with a Bachelor of Music. Since then she has studied with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s principal bassoonist, Matthew Wilkie, and then with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s... Read more