Brisbane-based chamber music ensemble Southern Cross Soloists (SxS) has delighted audiences throughout Australia and internationally since 1995. From Baroque to cutting-edge contemporary, their music covers an extraordinary range of repertoire.  The group also frequently creates exciting new arrangements of extant works.

SxS comprises: Paul Dean (clarinet), Leesa Dean (bassoon), Tania Frazer (oboe), Peter Luff (horn), Kevin Power (piano) and Margaret Schindler (soprano).  The quality and variety of their musical skills provide the secret of the ensemble's success.

The annual Bangalow Music Festival, established by the ensemble in 2002, attracts appreciative crowds of music lovers to this historic town. Composer Peter Sculthorpe describes Bangalow as Australia's "most exciting festival outside a capital city".  It has featured such renowned artists as Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, Ilya Konovalov, Genevieve Lacey, Brett Dean and the Australian String Quartet.

International tours by SxS have included the US, Canada, China, New Zealand and South Korea. Each year the ensemble tours interstate, often with guest artists, and they have performed at events such as the Brisbane Festival, the Canberra International Festival of Chamber Music, the Queensland Music Festival, the Camden Haven Festival and the Port Fairy Festival.

The group's annual week-long SunWater & Stanwell Winter Music School in Rockhampton involves students from across Queensland in a stimulating program of rehearsals, workshops and concerts.  This program is significantly supported by CQUniversity Australia.

With a strong commitment to commissioning and performing new Australian music, SxS has worked with many composers including Paul Stanhope, Gerard Brophy, Gordon Kerry, Mary Mageau, Andrew Schultz and James Ledger.

SxS is currently Ensemble in Residence at Qld Conservatorium Griffith University and will shortly take up a position as Company in Residence with the Qld Performing Arts Trust.