Cello Chloe Law

Chloe is a third-year law and music student at the Australian National University, studying cello with Rachel Johnston. She is a Wesley Music Scholar, holds the Ruth Pfanner Undergraduate Scholarship, won the 2024 Friends of the School of Music Chamber Music Competition and was awarded the 2024 Margot Lewin Prize for Cellists.

Chloe is the principal cellist of the ANU Orchestra, and featured as a soloist in the 2023 Concerto Gala, performing the first movement of Elgar’s Cello Concerto. As a member of the Canberra-based Ellery String Quartet, Chloe regularly collaborates with musicians, community choirs and regional orchestras from around Australia, performing at the 2025 National Folk Festival, and as a Young Artist at the Canberra International Music Festival.

Before relocating to Canberra from Melbourne, Chloe was awarded AMusA diplomas on cello at the age of 12 (2016) and on piano (2019), as well as completing her Grade 6 oboe exam. She played in the Melbourne String Ensemble from 2013 to 2018 and participated in the Australian Youth Orchestra’s National Music Camp in 2022 and 2025.

Chloe plays on a Thomas Smith cello (c.1760), kindly on loan from the ANU School of Music as part of the Dr Rosalind Dubs Companion Recurring Bursary for Cello.