Carla Blackwood enjoys a diverse career performing as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician in Australia and internationally. Carla is Lecturer in French Horn Performance at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Horn Faculty at the Australian National Academy of Music.
Carla is a committed performer of both historically informed early music and contemporary repertoire. On historical horns she is principal horn of both the Orchestra of the Antipodes and the Australian Haydn Ensemble. On modern horn she performs regularly with numerous chamber ensembles including the Australian Wind Quintet, Australia Ensemble, Lyrebird Brass, Quercus Trio, and appears regularly as guest principal horn with orchestras around Australia. Carla is passionate about championing new, forgotten and Australia repertoire featuring the horn.
In addition to Carla's performance research she is working on the history of the horn in Australia.
