Haylie Ecker

Haylie is a Public Advocate of music in education at Musica Viva Australia and is also a current council member of Australian Youth Orchestra (2015–2018).

In 2013 Haylie often records with award-winning film composer Ilan Eshkeri. In 2013 she recorded the violin solos for BAFTA nominated The Snowdog and The Snowman.

In 2012 Haylie performed a solo arrangement of Saint Saens Danse Macabre, with Orchestre Lamoureux and Faycal Karoui for Jardin de Tuileries first ever outdoor concerts.

In 2011 Haylie co-founded and was artistic director of PLAY!, a highbrow classical concert series for children, under the umbrella group of Premier Performances Hong Kong (www.pphk.org). As Artistic Director, she collaborated with artists such as Brooklyn Rider , Alpin Hong, Freddy Kempf and Dobrinka Tabakova, the latter with whom she curated an adaption of Saint Saens's Carnival of the Animals for Chinese New Year, which was premiered in 2013 Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival, and is in the process of being published as a coffee table book.

Between 2011 and 2014 Haylie was a writer for Sassy Mama HK contributing music mixes for holiday events.

In 2008 Haylie arranged and recorded the strings for the BAFTA nominated film Adulthood.

Haylie left Bond in 2008 and moved to Hong Kong with her family. She took a break to start a family.

Ecker worked with Magnus Fiennes on the animated cartoon series Freefonix in which she plays the character Syun, who has the superpower to manipulate time via extraordinary violin skills. Ecker is a featured artist on Zucchero Fornaciari's album "Zu & Co." on the platinum award-winning track Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, (Parlophone). Ecker presents for Classical Destinations Education Series 1, released internationally in 2007.

In 1998, pushing boundaries, Haylie co-founded Bond with three of her girlfriends, alongside music Svengali Mel Bush and Mike Batt. Bond launched their recording and performing career to a sold-out concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, which was later released through Decca as a concert DVD: Live At Albert Hall. This DVD went on to win platinum status in the USA along with other international regions.

Haylie toured Japan playing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in nine cities, with Western Australian Youth Orchestra 1997 And later with Luxembourg Philharmonia.

Haylie moved to London in 1995 on a music scholarship to later gain First Class Honours BMus-GSMD and a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Solo Studies from Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She won Guildhall School Of Music And Drama's Maurice Warshaw Prize for Chausson's Poeme, and The Ivan Sutton Award for chamber music.

Haylie Ecker (born 9 October 1975) is an Australian performer, writer, artistic director, and the former first violinist and co-founding member of the multi-platinum selling classical crossover string quartet Bond. With Bond she sold over 4 million records and accrued 43 platinum and gold records internationally. She left Bond in 2008 to become a mother. She plays a 1751 J.B. Guadagnini.