About the artists

Simone Slattery (violin/vocals, Australian National Academy of Music, PhD, Churchill Fellow) and Anthony Albrecht (cello, The Juilliard School, PhD) are internationally renowned musicians, specializing on both period and modern instruments, and founded the Bowerbird Collective in 2017 to make art for nature. Both musicians have appeared as Principals players with international ensembles including Il Pomo d'Oro (Italy), Ruckus (USA), Pinchgut Opera, Van Diemen’s Band and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.

The Bowerbird Collective's work has received international acclaim, and their ARIA-nominated albums of threatened bird, frog and mammal calls, ‘Songs of Disappearance’, reached the top of the ARIA Album Charts ahead of Taylor Swift, Adele, ABBA and Ed Sheeran. They have appeared at WOMADelaide, the Woodford Folk Festival, the Canberra International Music Festival, and at Climate Week in NYC. They have worked together with the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership to promote migratory shorebird conservation through the arts since 2020.