Jacqueline Ogeil

Jacqueline Ogeil is an Australian harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist.

Early studies
She studied under Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam (1993). She has also studied with Colin Tilney in Toronto and John O'Donnell in Melbourne. She gained her Masters in Music at the University of Melbourne and completed her PhD on the Baroque music of Scarlatti at the University of Newcastle.

Career
Ogeil is known for performing Baroque works, but has also performed contemporary repertoire including works by Naji Hakim. As a solo musician, she has performed in Australia, Europe and Canada. As well as harpsichord, she also plays the organ and fortepiano.

She has guest-lectured at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Music and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music.

In 2001, she founded the baroque chamber ensemble Accademia Arcadia. As of 2017, she was its director and also played a Cristofori fortepiano for Il Diavolo alongside Davide Monti on violin and Josephine Vains on continuo cello.

In 2010, she was appointed as a director of the historical house and gardens at Duneira in Mt Macedon.

In 2018, she became the new Executive Director at Montsalvat artists' community in Melbourne.

Awards
Ogeil has won a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust Award.

In 2015, she was the winner of The Australian Financial Review, and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards for her double role as Director of Dunieira and her contribution to the Woodend Winter Arts Festival.

In 2019 she was awarded an Australia Day Arts Ambassador Award from the Macedon Ranges Shire Council.

Discography

 * The Virtuoso Harpsichord (1995) Move Records (MD 3167)
 * Buxtehude at the Harpsichord (1997) Move Records (MD 3191)
 * La Follia (1998)

Personal life
Ogeil is married with five step-children.