Erkki Veltheim

Background: Member of contemporary music ensemble Elision, improvisers' ensemble Australian Art Orchestra and Australian Indigenous singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's band.

OA repertoire: Onstage Violinist: Bliss

Other Companies: Performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Ensemble musikFabrik (Dusseldorf). Has collaborated with many Australian composers, improvisers and performers including Brett Dean, John Rodgers, Jon Rose, Anthony Pateras and Meow Meow (Melissa Madden Gray). Also active as a band musician and songwriter in his own group Roadkill Rodeo, as well as guesting with various rock, country, gypsy and world music bands. Erkki’s compositions have been performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian String Quartet and the Twitch Ensemble, and his installations and intermedia works have been exhibited in Australia, Spain and Finland. Experimental music theatre works include Kill Music and Let Sounds Live and Kill Art and Let Feelings Live (Queensland Performing Arts Trust) both co-written, directed and performed with John Rodgers