In 2021 singer Mia-Chenea Robinson, pianist Sebastian Coyne and cellist Noah Lawrence on cello entered Strike A Chord as Trio Finifugal, and reached the National Final, performing Brahms's beautiful Geistliches Wiegenlied from Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91. 

Five years on, all three members of Trio Finifugal are pursuing music at a professional level. Sebastian is in his third year at the Australian National Academy of Music. Noah graduated from ANAM in 2024 and is currently in his second year as a Cello Fellow with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As for Mia-Chenea, she is in her third year at the University of Melbourne, on a full residential scholarship at Trinity College.

Singing has taken Mia-Chenea around the world, touring China and Singapore as a soloist with the Choir of Trinity College, and singing at Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Dublin and St Peter's Basilica in Rome. She has also appeared with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, and with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in the ABC Classic 100 in Concert.

 
Catch this rising star in 2026 as soloist in Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's annual performance of Handel's Messiah, conducted by Sir James MacMillan.
Trio Finifugal may have come together just for the 2021 Strike A Chord competition, but their winning performance of Brahms's Geistliches Wiegenlied (from Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91) announced three musicians well worth watching. Watch it here.
Learn more about Strike A Chord here 

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