Hedda Maria Oosterhoff is an interior acoustic designer working in theatre, opera, schools and commercial settings; she was born in Holland and lives and works in New Zealand.
She started learning the violin at the age of 5, and played in chamber orchestras, bands, orchestras for operas and musicals, and co-founded a string group called Rosa Musica.
[1] Oosterhoff is credited with initiating and leading the development of a new building product, Vertibrace, which separates a partition wall from the main wall of a structure, allowing movement in high winds or earthquakes.
[4] In 2009, she received the Peter Lees-Jeffries Memorial Scholarship from the Dame Malvina Major Foundation.
[5][6] In 2010, she received the Pettman Dare International Performance Scholarship to work at Opera North and receive mentoring in opera design and management at the University of Leeds.