BMus (Hons), GradDipTchg

Glen graduated with a BMus (hons) in Popular Music performance from the London College of Music in 2000. Since then he has worked as a professional drummer working extensively across England and Europe. He has played all kinds of music from theatre shows to tribute shows, national tours through to Big Band Jazz gigs.  He moved to New Zealand in 2006 and has played and recorded with a wide range of New Zealand Artists. As an itinerant Drum teacher Glen has worked across many schools in Auckland. In 2013 he completed his Graduate Diploma of teaching at Auckland University and moved into classroom music teaching. He started teaching part time at Carmel college in 2015 and went full time in 2016. When he’s not teaching he plays with the Eagles tribute Act “Motel California” and Subs for Auckland Cover Band “Off the Wall” 

http://glenchild.com/

BA, Dip Tchg 

Pene is a very experienced teacher with a good understanding of pedagogy, of the flute and of performance. She graduated from Hamilton Teachers College and Waikato University, and undertook further studies in music at Auckland University. Pene uses a variety of highly successful instructional methods that have produced many fine flautists over many years. Pene is currently a member of different community orchestras, including the ASO and the DCO, which aim to bring music to the wider community in an accessible, affordable and educational manner.

Master of Music (Dist.), Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Primary),Post Graduate Diploma in Voice, Post Graduate Diploma in Opera Studies

Mezzo-soprano, Kate Webber (nee Spence) was educated at The University of Auckland and the Queensland Conservatorium, Australia. She graduated with a Master of Music (Dist.) and Post Graduate Diplomas in Opera and Vocal Studies. She holds an FTCL in Voice from the Trinity College of Music, London. Kate made her professional operatic debut for the Brisbane Festival and has since sung with companies such as Opera Queensland, OzOpera, English National Opera and NBR New Zealand Opera. She has extensive experience with Oratorio Repertoire and regularly performs as a soloist with Choral Societies throughout New Zealand. Kate has been a prizewinner in the NZ Mobil Song Quest and has gained a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to study in Austria at the Orff Institut, Salzburg. A qualified primary school teacher, Kate has worked as a Music Specialist in Yrs 1-8, teaches voice at Northcross Intermediate and runs a vocal studio at her home. Kate is a vocal coach to many of New Zealand’s leading choirs and regularly adjudicates vocal competitions, examinations and scholarships. 

Bev has spent more than 30 years as both a classroom teacher and itinerant teacher.  She studied double reed instruments and conducting at university but also teaches flute, chamber music and lower brass if required. 

Bev has performed as a freelance oboist with many orchestras around NZ including the APO and Dunedin Symphony. She also works as a freelance conductor and in Music Theatre.

For the last few years Bev has enjoyed learning about brass instruments and is now a member of Waitakere Auckland Brass. 

Robert directs the Carmel College Senior Choir and Carmini (combined choir with Rosmini) as well as teaching singing and piano at Carmel and five other schools in the Auckland region. He also directs the Pitt St Methodist Church choir and the Handel Consort & Quire, a chamber choir who perform the lesser-known works of Handel (as well as other composers such as Haydn, Purcell and others), often with professional orchestra, to critical acclaim. They have featured on TV's Praise Be! and Breakfast and also Radio NZ Concert programmes. They also provide a platform for aspiring young singers, many who have gone on to win major NZ competitions such as the Lexus Song Quest and NZ Aria. Robert is classically trained but also teaches a variety of vocal and piano styles.

https://youtu.be/0hWAjdPfTak 

BMus (Hons)

As a violinist, Robert has enjoyed a career playing violin with many fine orchestras including the NZSO, APO, Collegium Musicum Copenhagen and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has been concert master of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Wellington Sinfonia and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra where he still works.

As a teacher, Robert enjoys bringing the world of music alive to young students some of whom have gone onto to become professional musicians and teachers in their own right. 

Mark has been playing and performing professionally since 1981 in India, Hong Kong and now in NZ in all formats and genres, from bands, Musical Theatre, studio sessions and film projects. Mark studied drums at Musicians Institute, Hollywood, California in 1986 and has been teaching school students with much success, since 1998. Mark has his own drum school on the North Shore, where you can get more information.

 www.drumadiddle.co.nz 

Diploma in Orchestral Studies (University of London), GradDipTchng, S(Hons), HND Musical Instrument Technology

Anthony Elmsly is an experienced teacher and performer. He has a Diploma in Orchestral Studies, a Diploma in Teaching and a Bachelor of Science with Honours. Anthony was born in Auckland and brought up in Upper Hutt. He learned cello in Wellington with Farquhar Wilkinson (then Co-Principal Cellist of the NZSO).

During 1977 and 1978 he was a trainee cellist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, during which time he and colleagues made the first recording of the superb String Quartet in E minor by Douglas Lilburn. He then moved to London to study cello with the cello pedagogue Christopher Bunting and completed a Diploma in Orchestral Studies. He had become acquainted with highly effective string teaching ideas through attending a seminar given in New Zealand by the American string teaching expert Paul Rolland. In London he then had the good fortune to work as a teaching assistant in the Tower Hamlets Project under the leadership of the great string pedagogue Sheila Nelson. His teaching is also influenced by having attended masterclasses given by many of the greatest cellists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including: Anner Bijlsma, Lynn Harrell, Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Boris Pergamenchikoff, William Pleeth, Janos Starker, and Raphael Wallfisch. Perhaps the greatest revelation he experienced in sound and expressive power was hearing Steven Isserlis play. He performed in various ensembles in London and around the United Kingdom before branching out training as a violin maker. From 1994 to 2007 he was based in Basel (Switzerland) then returned to New Zealand in 2007.

Teaching Info

My goal in teaching is to give my students the tools that will enable them to learn, whatever their stage of learning, whatever their age. I enjoy helping students to both find solutions to technical problems and develop musical ideas, encouraging imagination and storytelling in music. I expect students to practice between lessons. Progress in learning is absolutely dependent on frequent practice. I explain to students in lessons how to practice at home to get the best results.I aim to make my lessons focused learning opportunities but also enjoyable.

Julia graduated from Trinity College of Music, London, where she was awarded the prize for woodwind playing and a scholarship for post-graduate study. She has performed and taught in schools both in the UK and New Zealand for over 30 years. She has played principal clarinet with many orchestras around New Zealand and as a soloist with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra, St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra and the Devonport Chamber Orchestra. Highlights have included performing at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Albert Hall and St. Martins in the Fields, London.