Music Lessons

I teach from home in Kaikorai, Dunedin. Get in touch about lesson availability across the week.

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, for all ages.

Work

• Private teaching - mainly cello, with growing violin students. I am also the cello teacher at Dunedin
  Rudolf Steiner School.
• Dunedin Youth Orchestra Coordinator
• Dunedin Symphony Orchestra Academy Conductor and orchestra administration
• NZCT Chamber Music Contest Otago District Co-ordinator (Chamber Music New Zealand)
• Dunedin Children's Choir Choir Supervisor / Community Liaison
• Institute of Registered Music Teachers Otago Branch secretary (voluntary)

Past roles

• Cello teacher at Saturday Morning Music (George Street) and John McGlashan College
• Chamber Music New Zealand: Dunedin Concert Manager
• Cellists of Otago committee secretary (voluntary)

Performance

• Dunedin Symphony Orchestra cellist, including schools tour 2025/6
• Ōwheo Quartet
  • 2022 - Royal Society Te Āparangi Ōtepoti and Te Whanganui-a-Tara Awards Ceremonies
  • 2023 - present Weddings, recording sessions
• Waitaki Summer Music Camp 2025, 2026 (assistant tutor, cellos)
• Available for recordings
• 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
  • 2024/5 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 Colour Wānaka 2023: Colours of Grief
• NZ Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra 2016

Education

• Associate Member IRMT (Cello and Theory)
• 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 (2022)
• Bachelor of Arts majoring in Māori Studies (2020)
• ABRSM Grade 7 Clarinet (2016)
• ABRSM Grade 7 Violin (2015)
• Piano lessons 2024-present