Mikaela Oberg is a recorder and flute player who specialises in historical performance practice. She completed her undergraduate studies in recorder performance and music education at the Sydney Conservatorium and went on to postgraduate studies in early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Barthold Kuijken. During this time she performed both in The Netherlands and abroad, including with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the leadership of Frans Bruggen. Mikaela returned to Australia in 2014 and performs regularly with Sydney based early music ensembles such as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, which she has been a member of since 2005 and is often both flute and recorder soloist on regional and national tours, Pinchgut Opera, Australian Haydn Ensemble, Bach Akademie Australia, The Muffat Collective, the Australian Haydn Ensemble. Mikaela is also a woodwind examiner for the AMEB and teaches both instruments in her home studio and at Queenwood School for Girls and Fort Street High School.