Music Lessons

I teach from North East Valley Dunedin, with times available during the day and evenings, weekends on enquiry. Pricing available on request.

Some instrument hire options available.

Scratch the itch and come try it out! I hope to provide a fun, comfortable and encouraging environment for the learner and their aims, supported by a strong technical foundation. Beginner and beyond, all ages.

Work

• Mainly cello teaching, with growing violin students, including at Saturday Morning Music (George Street), John McGlashan College and Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School
• Dunedin Symphony Orchestra Academy Conductor and orchestra administration
• Chamber Music New Zealand: Dunedin Concert Manager and
  • NZCT Chamber Music Contest Otago District Co-ordinator

Performance

• Dunedin Symphony Orchestra
• Ōwheo Quartet
  • 2022 - Royal Society Te Āparangi Ōtepoti and Te Whanganui-a-Tara Awards Ceremonies
  • 2023 - present Weddings, recording sessions
• Dunedin Youth Orchestra
  • 2021 Young Musicians' Award and solo with DYO and CYO 2022
  • 2019 Fashion iD small orchestra and recording session
  • 2018 Rhian Sheehan A Quiet Divide Live at Arts Festival Dunedin
  • 2024 Mentoring
• Porpoise
  • 2022 Eyegum Scenic Tour with Mirror Ritual
  • 2022 do what you want/my life in dreams, Breakneck Brain
  • 2021 Astronaut Single, Blue Whale EP
• Cellists of Otago
  • Festival of Coulour Wānaka 2023: Colours of Grief
• NZ Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra 2016

Education

• Associate Member IRMT
• CSO Aspirations conducting course (2024)
• Bachelor of Music First Class Honours (2021)
  • Cello Performance with Heleen du Plessis
  • MUSI490 Dissertation: 'Fertile Soil: Women in Leadership in New Zealand Orchestral Music'
  • MUSI375 Studio Pedagogy
  • MUSI259 Special Topic: Practical Conducting
• Bachelor of Arts majoring in Māori Studies (2020)
• ABRSM Grade 7 Clarinet (2016)
• ABRSM Grade 7 Violin (2015)