Ros Dunlop: clarinetist, researcher, teacher, writer and advocate for new Australian clarinet music, has presented solo recitals internationally for over thirty years.  Ros is a founding member of  Charisma ensemble which has played for more than 25 years. One of her more unusual tours took her to East Timor in 2002. Years of field research of the indigenous music of Timor-Leste followed and became the subject of her doctoral thesis and award-winning publication Sounds of the Soul, now a text for the new education curriculum in East Timor. Ros was on staff at Sydney Conservatorium of Music for 25 years.