Camille Wells has been Associate Principal Oboe of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra since 2009. In demand with orchestras worldwide, Camille has performed as a guest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra. Most recently, she spent the 2024-25 season in the role of Acting Associate Principal Oboe with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Camille grew up in a small town outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where her father repaired woodwind instruments. After graduating from Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Camille attended Indiana University, the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory. Her primary teachers were Linda Strommen, John Ferrillo, and Richard Woodhams.

Clarinettist Jonathan Cohen joined the Auckland Philharmonia in 2020. A third-generation musician, he was born in New Orleans and began his studies at the age of ten with his father, Steve Cohen.

Jonathan has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Following the completion of his Master of Music at The Juilliard School, he performed for three seasons with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

He has been featured at prominent summer festivals such as Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, the Naumburg Summer Series, Tanglewood, and the Minnesota Beethoven Festival, among others. In addition to his performing career, Jonathan is a dedicated educator who has presented masterclasses at universities throughout the United States and New Zealand.

In addition to his core orchestral work in the Auckland Philharmonia, Jonathan has performed as a guest with an extensive list of internationally recognised ensembles, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).

Jonathan's principal teachers include Steve Cohen, Nathan Williams, Yehuda Gilad, Mark Nuccio, and Anthony McGill. He holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School.

American born bassoonist Ingrid Hagan is the principal bassoonist of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. She won the post in 2010. Prior to that she was a bassoonist with the New World Symphony in Miami, FL, USA, from 2007-2010. At 22, she was one of the youngest players to be accepted into the prestigious program in Miami. Immediately following her 3 years in Miami, she trialed with the Norrkoping Symphony in Sweden, before winning the job in Auckland. She has performed in Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, Panama, and Germany, with various ensembles, including the festival ensemble of Stuttgart. She was Principal Bassoon of the Breckenridge Music Festival in 2009, where she was selected as a concerto soloist, performing the Mozart Bassoon Concerto. She has played in several competitions, including the Meg Quigley competition (’07) which she tied for second prize, and the Swiss Muri Competition, in which she was the only participant to be selected from the USA or Australasia. (’13). In 2015 she traveled to the USA to compete in the Gilet/Hugo Fox competition, where she received an Honorable Mention. Hagan attended the Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 2007 and studying with the principal bassoonist of the Metropolitan Opera , Whitney Crockett. She is currently on the artists faculty of the University of Auckland, and has performed regularly throughout New Zealand with the Koru Wind Quintet, NZSO, Auckland Chamber Orchestra, and Bay of Plenty Symphonia. In 2013, she was a concerto soloist with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, performing the John Williams Concerto, ” The Five Sacred Trees.” It was the first time this piece had been performed with full orchestra in New Zealand. Hagan has been featured several times on National Public Radio in the US, and filmed on shows such as Good Morning Miami and also TV3 New Zealand. She can be heard weekly performing live with the APO on Radio New Zealand. Hagan plays on a Fox mountain maple #601 Bassoon.

Gabrielle Pho is principal horn of the Auckland Philharmonia, a position she has held since 2023. Originally from the United States, she is a graduate of the Juilliard School where she studied with Julie Landsman and Jennifer Montone and was the recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. She has performed with ensembles all over the world including the London Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Gabrielle was previously a participant in the National Symphony Orchestra's Youth Fellowship program where she performed regularly at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In 2018 she toured Asia with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. She has also attended the Music Academy of the West where she won the Digital Challenge for her original composition and multimedia performance.

New Zealand pianist Stephen De Pledge has a wide-ranging career as soloist, chamber musician and song accompanist. After studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he won the Gold Medal, he spent two years as a Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music. Stephen’s solo performances have taken him to Hong Kong, Italy, France, Singapore, Japan, Australia and the USA, in addition to numerous appearances in London, at Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, Barbican Hall and Kings Place. Concerto appearances include the Philharmonia (London), Bournemouth Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony and New London orchestras. He has recorded solo works of Bliss, Messiaen and Arvo Pärt, for whom he made the world premiere recording of the piano sonatinas. He also made the premiere recording of the four Piano Preludes of Gorecki. As a chamber musician, Stephen has collaborated with groups such as the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble and the Scottish Ensemble. Recent chamber music performances have been in New York, Dresden, Bogotà, Shanghai, Paris and Beijing, and he has performed at many international festivals in the UK and abroad. Stephen has also worked in recital with many musicians, including Dame Felicity Lott, Raphael Wallfisch, Alan Hacker and Viktoria Mullova. Stephen’s repertoire is far-reaching, from the music of the 17th to the 21st centuries. In 2001 he performed the complete chamber works of Arvo Pärt during the Edinburgh Festival, under the guidance of the composer, and he has become particularly associated with the music of Messiaen, which he studied in Paris with the composer’s widow, the late Yvonne Loriod. In 2008 he gave the first performance of the "Landscape Preludes", twelve new works by New Zealand composers, at the International Festival in Wellington, and with the NZSO has recorded the piano concerto of Lyell Cresswell, released in 2014. In addition to his solo recordings, Stephen’s recordings for Naxos, Sanctuary Classics, ASV, Quartz and Landor labels include song cycles by Ned Rorem and Samuel Barber, and chamber music of Messiaen, Shostakovich, Schnittke and Pärt. He has broadcast for Radio 3 and Classic FM in the UK, and has also been on radio in USA, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden, as well as BBC Television.