Michael Loftus-Hills is a Melbourne based violinist, pianist, violin teacher and Alexander Technique teacher who has worked primarily with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra since 1996 and teaches violin and the Alexander Technique at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and the Alexander Technique at the Australian National Academy of Music. From 2009-2012, Michael was the Head of Strings at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne. he is a teacher of all levels and has directed many workshops for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s “Outreach” program, its education arm, including as Artistic Director of the “Pizzicato Effect”; an El Sistema inspired program. he has managed and performed for the Musica Viva schools program with the string quartet “Strung Out” and was the consultant editor for the Seies 9 Violin syllabus for the AMEB. He is an AMEB examiner and adjudicates at competitions around Melbourne He tutors for the Australian Youth Orchestra, Border Music Camp in Albury, and is an orchestral mentor at Monash University. Many of his past students have gone on to win scholarships and professional playing jobs in Australia, New Zealand and England and have won chamber music awards including first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. He has started two chamber music series: one at Epsom House outside Hobart and another in. Tribeca, New York where he has given recitals with Amir Farid and performs on piano with MSO violinist Isin Cakmakcioglu. Their latest album is Souvenirs Nostalgiques (2022) is on Spotify. He also is the second violinist in the Eroica Quartet. Through his years with the MSO he has toured to Europe, China, Russia and America and on many round trips of Victoria. In 2017, a neck injury from playing lead him to three years of full-time study in the Alexander Technique and became accredited as a teacher and has attracted players and teachers of all instruments from around Australia. He also enjoys working with in all areas of mastery and also in helping people perform the more mundane movements of life more easily and without pain. He is currently applying it whilst trying to lower his golf handicap, with mixed results.