Anna Stoddart - Flute
Co-director, carisma

Anna Stoddart is a truly charismatic individual, both musically and personally, who touches and engages those she meets.

She approaches her music with sensitivity and flexibility that come from that dynamic combination of passion, skill and experience. Her dynamic and arousing musical style has developed through a performance career which has encompassed a wide variety of musical styles, from classical to jazz to soul.

Anna graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts (Music) degree from the Queensland Conservatorium, with distinction in Flute and Teaching. She became an instrumental music teacher with Education Queensland and taught in several Queensland schools. Highlights of Anna’s career include lecturing in Flute at the University of Southern Queensland, performing as a member of both
the Queensland Symphony and Queensland Philharmonic Orchestras, and directing and performing with various renowned local ensembles.

Janice Preece - Harp
Co-director carisma



Janice was born in Wales, the land of song and music. She says that this homeland is the place she found her love of music. It was in the very air she breathed.

After graduating with a B.Mus. (Hons) from the University of North Wales, Bangor, Wales; she completed a postgraduate Harp Performance Course at the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. Janice went on to win the Harp Competition at the prestigious Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales.

In recognition of Janice’s musical gifts, she was admitted as a bard in her home country, Wales. Her Bardic name is "Telynores Dwyfor" which translates as "The Harpist of Two Seas”.

This name took on profound significance when, she made Australia her new home while maintaining strong links with her Welsh homeland.

Janice has earned both a national and an international musical reputation through her performances in various symphony orchestras in Australia and the UK and the demands for her gifts and skills have taken her to many unique destinations both in Australia and abroad.

Janice is currently Principal Harpist with the Queensland Pops Orchestra.

When you experience the beauty of Janice’s harp music, you understand why she has Bardic status. Her music has mesmerizing and alluring qualities that are capable of evoking the deep feelings and meaning incarnated in the music.
Her music is captivating and adds a unique dimension to the trio carisma.

Louise King – ‘Cello

Louise King migrated to Australia from England in 2003. She has an appetite for adventure and has travelled to exotic climes with her cello, performing and soaking up life as she goes.

Her musicmaking is daring and vibrant and she plays with a stylish freshness and breath-taking versatility. Upon graduating with honours and winning every chamber music prize from the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester in 1997, Louise worked with the Northern Sinfonia, New London Soloists Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. Louise has performed in masterclasses given by Christopher Bunting, Anner Byslma, Ralph Kirshbaum
and Steven Isserlis and studied with William Pleeth at the Britten-Pears School and with Karine Georgian at the Dartington International Summer School. She currently freelances with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra, Topology, Southern Cross Soloists and the Baroque specialists Sirius Ensemble.