Project 1

Jessica Jiang began playing the flute at age 10. She studied from Alison Catanach at Methodist Ladies’ College from 2004-2007, after gaining music and academic scholarships. She obtained her A.Mus.A (dist.) in 2005, and L.Mus.A the following year. She has received the Leslie Barklamb Flute Award and the VMTA Theory Award.

Jessica was a Young Academy musician at ANAM in 2006 and in 2007, joined Melbourne Youth Orchestra as principal flute and won the MYO Concerto Competition. In the same year, she was the Encouragement Award Winner of the 3MBS Victorian Young Performer Awards.

In 2008, she was the first prize winner of the Leslie Barklamb Scholarship, the Gold Medallion Winner of the instrumental section of the Dandenong Festival of Music and the first prize winner of the Boroondara Eisteddfod, open woodwind section.

Jessica has also won the 2008 VCA Concerto Competition and will be performing the Nielsen Flute Concerto with the orchestra next year in April. Jessica is a casual playing member of Orchestra Victoria. She is currently studying first year Bachelor of Music Performance at VCA, learning flute from Margaret Crawford.

Club Project information

2008 Award winner

The Frances Quinn Arts Encouragement Award is presented to an outstanding, talented 1st year music student at the Victorian College of the Arts, School of Music.

The award is presented in honour of Frances Quinn who was a member of the Zonta Club of Melbourne Yarra. Fran had a great interest in theatre and particularly singing. She had a very charming, lively personality and was a very popular member. When she died of cancer at the age of 54, the Zonta Club of Melbourne Yarra together with the Quinn family held fundraising activities to build up a trust fund so that a music award to support young talent could be presented in her memory. The Zonta Club of Melbourne on Yarra is continuing the tradition.

Zonta's mission is to advance the status of women. Zonta also seeks to advance tomorrow's leaders through mentoring and scholarship programs designed to encourage students, especially young women, to follow career paths which befit their talents. The Frances Quinn Arts Encouragement Award is an example of this approach.

Fran Quinn’s sister, Angela Deyong, with the Quintessential Collection CD.