EDUCATION AND TRAINING

EDUCATION and TRAINING

   2023 Education Queensland provider - CPR, Basic Emergency Life Support, First Aid - annual training
2016 Justice of the Peace - JP (Qual)
   2011-2012 University of Auckland - Master of Music (First Class Honours) - Voice Performance
   2010 South Australian Learning Centre - Certificate III in Disability
   2007-2008 The University of Adelaide - Graduate Diploma in Education
   2008 Australian Red Cross - Basic Emergency Life Support
   2007 Australian Red Cross - Intermediate First Aid (Senior First Aid)
   Families SA for Australian Education Union - Mandatory Notification Training
The University of Adelaide - Microsoft Office Word 2003 (Levels 1-4)
   2006 TAFE SA - Microsoft Excel (Intermediate & Advanced)
   1993 Member of The Australian Opera’s Young Artist Development Program
as Conductor/Composer
   1986-1988 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music - Bachelor of Music (Performance)
Principal Study: Conducting. Second Study: Singing.
   1984-1985 Western Australian Conservatorium of Music - Associate Diploma of Performing Arts (Music):
   Principal Study: Guitar. Second Study: Clarinet/Percussion.
   1980-1981 Fremantle Technical College, Western Australia - Tertiary Admission Examination
   1977-1979 Fremantle Community School, Western Australia

LANGUAGES STUDIED

   1997-1998 Colloquial (Palestinian) and Written Arabic
   1990 Introductory French
   1987-1988 Basic German
   1986 Introductory Italian

STUDIES WITH:

Richard Gill AO (Perth): conducting, voice, score-reading, piano, aural-training
Vladimir Ponkin (Perth): conducting
Megan Sutton (Perth): voice
Rosie Barnes (Auckland): voice, repertoire
Mary Hammond (London): voice
Valerie Collins-Varga OAM (Sydney): voice
Tom Edmonds AM (Adelaide): voice
Patricia Wright (Auckland): voice
Andreas Simon (Auckland): voice
Ross Daly (Athens): laouto, oud, Turkish music theory
Linsey Pollak OAM (Perth): Macedonian music
Christos Zotos (Athens): mainland laouto
Erdinç Şenyaylar (Istanbul): oud
Brian Black (Perth): guitar
Yurdal Tokcan (Istanbul - via Zoom): oud
Vasilis Kostas (Greece - via Zoom): mainland laouto
Muhittin Kemal (Stuttgart - via Zoom): Turkish classical repertoire

Workshops/Masterclasses/Casual Lessons with:

Carlo Felice Cillario, David Porcelijn (conducting);
Joshua Hecht, David Kram, Lionel Friend, Elizabeth Campbell, Stuart Skelton (voice);
Necati Çelik (oud); John Mills, Vince Gill, Derek Gripper (guitar); Isidoro Roitman (Spanish renaissance music);
Georgos Xylouris (laouto), Hopkinson Smith (theorbo), Polly Sussex (viola da gamba), William Rees (rabab).

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