About our presenters:

Jason Ballantine A.S.E. - Film Editor
As 1st Assistant Editor and Visual Effects Editor, Jason worked alongside many noteworthy Directors and Editors on films such as Babe and Pig In The City, Dark City, Moulin Rouge, MI2, Hearts in Atlantis, The Quiet American, Happy Feet, Australia and Star Wars Episode 2 and Episode 3 - in a career spanning 18 years.  Jason has recently been appointed President of the Australian Screen Editors Guild.

Dr Tom Benjamin
Dr Tom Benjamin is senior researcher at the Centre for Learning Innovation, NSW Department of Education and Training, whose background is as a psychologist and educator. Tom in earlier days was a frat party rock and roll singer in Detroit before coming to work in Australia as a psychologist. He has long been a fan of Orff Schulwerk and the music therapy movement. His music education system is part of his own ‘international radio, TV and movie network’ on the Web and was published in the October 2010 issue of Music in Action.

Amy Bennett
Amy works as an educator at the Digital Learning Hub at the Arts Centre developing and delivering programs in film making, music technology and multimedia. She freelances as a typesetter, arranger and copyist and spends a disproportionate amount of time on Sibelius forums. She attempts to keep up with the latest technologies (follow @NeutronGirl on twitter) and plays the viola and piano around the Melbourne music scene. Amy has worked for many years as a music and science educator in the classroom and also teaching small groups and individual lessons. Her special interests lie in the areas of music composition and integrating technology into the school curriculum. She holds a Masters of Applied Physics, Diploma of Music Performance and Postgraduate Diploma of Education.

Elliot Bledsoe
Elliott Bledsoe is a Project Officer with Creative Commons Australia, the organisation that administers the Australian Creative Commons licences and supports Australian licence users. At the core of the Creative Commons project is a suite of standardised licences, freely available to creators, that foster sharing and collaboration. Creative Commons builds upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” system. http://creativecommons.org.au, http://elliottbledsoe.com.

Evan Boyd
Evan Boyd has been immersed in the post-production and broadcast community for over a decade. A Sydney University graduate, Evan utilises his creative flare and passion for film and television by providing both technical and creative consulting and training for independent film and video post-production facilities and broadcasters. Recently employed by Avid as a Pre-sales Consultant for Australia and New Zealand, Evan provides Avid video solutions, advice and design for Avid customers and partners.

Ian Burke 
Ian Burke (BMusEd, MMusTech) has been involved in music education for over 25 years and is currently Creative Arts Coordinator at St Peter’s Catholic College, Tuggerah Lakes. Ian has recently completed a Master of Music Technology through the University of Newcastle where he also undertook research into the effective use of IWBs in music education. Ian has developed a wide range of IWB specific resources for secondary music classes and integrates ICLTextensively in his approach to teaching music.

David Cashman
David Cashman is the Coordinator of Academic Studies at the Australian Institute of Music. As such, he is responsible for the delivery of theory, aural, music history and general arts courses at the Institute. A pianist by training, his areas of research interest include music and tourism, popular music and implementation of e-learning in tertiary music education.

Helen Champion 
As Curriculum manager, Performing Arts at the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Helen Champion promotes discussion about how curriculum is constructed and interpreted in schools. 

Mick Coleman - National Manager, Tech Production Network
With over a decade of experience in a variety of music industry positions, Mick Coleman has developed strong skills in sound engineering, music production, song-writing and performance. Mick is also a registered secondary teacher, having recently completed his Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education, majoring in Information Technology and Drama. As an independent musician, songwriter and performer Mick has toured extensively across the globe, working with and learning from, those leading the way in the international music industry. In his role with COSAMP Mick manages the Tech Production Network and all of its associated music technology training resources, and visits schools all over Australia consulting on the classroom delivery of music technology training.

Nicholas Cowall
Nicholas Cowall is an experienced music educator, conductor, vocal coach, and vocalist. He has completed tertiary music study at Monash University, Melbourne University, the Moscow Conservatoire and the Victorian College of the Arts. Nicholas has conducted opera, orchestral and choral ensembles and is currently Director of Music at Marcellin College, the Vice president of the Association of Directors of Music in Independent Schools, guest lecturer at the Monash University School of Music – Conservatorium and music director of the professional choral ensemble Melbourne Cappella. Nicholas has a keen interest in technology and how it can be applied to music pedagogy. This interest has taken him outside the music classroom and into the realm of writing and the implementation of netiquette, cyberbullying and e-learning policy in school environments.

Craig Dabelstein
Craig Dabelstein began his professional life as a musician but has spent much of his time writing and editing music publications and developing web sites for music organisations. He has been the copyeditor and designer of the Australian Clarinet and Saxophone Magazine, is a research associate for the Teaching Music Through Performance In Band books and is a regular reviewer for Music Forum magazine. Craig is an advocate for music technology and is the writer and webmaster of the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors' Association web site.

Bernard Depasquale
Bernard Depasquale is the General Manager of the Australian Music Examinations Board. Coming from a background as a performing musician, Bernard also has significant experience in music business and tertiary education, making a unique package of understanding of the day to day life of the music teacher and music student.

Warrick Dowdy
Warrick is currently the Customer Services Manager at Music Education Network. Prior to joining Music EDnet in early 2009, for some 10 years he was an integral member of the team responsible for making Sibelius the success in education it is today. Through his role as customer services manager at Avid Technology, he gained invaluable knowledge of the various issues educators face when incorporating music technology into the classroom. Since joining Music EDnet, he has been able to put this knowledge to great use by assisting schools around the country establish and maintain music technology facilities. Currently studying at the Electronic Music Unit at Adelaide University, he is a keen composer of electronic music and an enthusiastic advocate for music in education.

Andy Firth
Andy Firth is one of a very small number of Australian artists to have ever performed a concert under their own name at Carnegie Hall. On the evening of the 21st March 2008, Andy Firth played a concert in Weill Recital Hall billed as “Goodman & Beyond” to a standing ovation. Andy Firth was born and grew up in Port Augusta, South Australia. He began performing professionally aged 14, and at age 17, appeared on national television with Don Burrows. Andy Firth has performed with some of the world’s finest musicians: Buddy DeFranco, Ingrid Jensen, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis, B.B. King, Lee Konitz, and Acker Bilk to name but a few. Andy is also a talented composer and educator with over 450 compositions to his credit. In 2006 Andy received an Australia MO Award for “Best Australian live jazz performer” and he will be the guest jazz soloist for the 2011 International Clarinet Conference to be held in Los Angeles. 

Gary France
Originally from New York, USA, Gary France received his Master of Music degree (Orchestral Performance / Jazz) from the University of North Texas. He became the first drummer/percussionist, in the fifty-year history of the university program, to direct one of the prestigious Jazz Lab Bands. Since moving to Australia, he has been regularly employed by peak music bodies such as the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Australian National Academy of Music to tutor developing percussionists. His former students now hold prominent positions as performers, educators and executives in the music industry both here in Australia and abroad. Since 1998 Mr. France has coordinated and nurtured the Percussion program at the Australian National University.
As a presenter Gary France has presented masterclasses, concerts and workshops throughout the U.S., China, Indonesia, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. As a performer he has played with diverse range of ensembles and artists, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, James Morrison, Lucky Oceans, Richie Cole, Ricky May, Nat Adderley, Dale Barlow, Jim McNeeley and numerous others. 

Robert Gavin
Robert is one of Australia's leading musical directors and conductors in music theatre. His career spans from the musical direction of Robyn Archer's A STAR IS TORN, PIRATES, CANDIDE, Jeannie Lewis’ PIAF – The Songs And The Story, STARLIGHT EXPRESS, ANYTHING GOES, BUDDY - The Buddy Holly Story through to conductor for BIG RIVER, JERRY'S GIRLS, THE KING AND I, VARIATIONS, EVITA, I DO! I DO!, PIRATES (original VSO production), OLYMPUS ON MY MIND, THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, CHESS, RASPUTIN (Chorus Master), THE CURRENCY LASS, TUTTI FLUTTI (Edinburgh Festival), CATS, STARLIGHT EXPRESS, BAD BOY JOHNNY AND THE PROPHETS OF DOOM, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW, PARIS, THE WEDDING SONG, PIANO MEN, TWO UP, INTO THE WOODS and SPRING AWAKENING as well as Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator for ONCE IN A BLUE A MOON for ABC Television with the Melbourne Symphony. His pre-eminence in orchestration has led to award-winning tracks for Marina Prior's LEADING LADY and ASPECTS OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, Anthony Warlow's ON THE BOARDS and Jane Rutter's APASSIONADA. He has been Composer-In-Residence for both Melbourne and Nimrod Theatre Companies and written over 100 scores for repertory theatre, as well as even being Music Editor for Opera Australia.

Andy Hagerman
Andy Hagerman (Digidesign Training Manager|Asia) has worn many hats during his professional life, which has resulted in a unique combination of traditional musical background and the latest in high-tech. Andy began his musical life at the early age of eight as an aspiring tubist and bassist. Excelling at his craft, he continued his studies at the prestigious Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. During his time there, he also discovered a passion for position and arranging, creating works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and even jazz and rock bands. Also during that time, the music technology revolution emerged (with the release of MIDI in the early 1980s), and Andy was immediately hooked, immediately recognizing the usefulness of music technology in aiding the creative process.
After graduation, Andy took his dual interests forward, performing in numerous ensembles of all types, and even enjoying many years of live playing and arranging at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland. As a composer and producer, he has been very active in the creation of planetarium and science centre soundtracks, and his work can be heard worldwide, including at the renowned American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Andy has served as the Associate Course Director of Advanced Audio Workstations at Full Sail Real World Education in Winter Park, Florida, coordinating and guiding the curriculum of one of the largest digital audio workstation lab environments in the world. Andy remains active in composition and production with Singularity Arts, which serves the worldwide planetarium community. Currently, Andy is the Manager of Digidesign’s Training and Education program for the Asia Pacific region, supporting a network of training partner institutions, as well as participating in numerous educational events and seminars He is a Certified Pro Tools Operator for both Music and Post Production, a Certified ICON Expert and Certified Pro Tools Instructor.
Andy has authored the following books, published by Course Technology:
• Zen and the Art of Music Technology
• Digital Music Making for Teens
• Working with Beats in Pro Tools: Skill Pack
• Pro Tools LE 7 Ignite! 

Jim Hayden
Jim is currently teaching Music and VET Entertainment at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield where he has recently taken up the position of Coordinator of Music Performance and Events. His expertise in music technology was founded during his time as a professional musician working in recording studios around the world. Jim’s focus area is now the integration of technology into the classroom, both music and Web 2.0 based and in particular using Apple software. He has been invited to present on this topic for CaSPA as well as conducting his own workshops through Teacher Training Australia. In striving to continually increase his knowledge, Jim has recently gained a Master of Music Technology from Newcastle University.

Len Henderson (M.Sc.) 
Len Henderson (M.Sc.) is a director of Binary Music, a company focused on helping music educators get the most out of using technology in their work. Even before the company formed in 1990 he was using the latest technological innovations in his music performances and compositions. With the rapid development of computer-based music technology and its expanded use in schools, Len has provided technical advice as well as training and professional development for teachers and students throughout Australia. Len is also a keen guitarist, having performed on several contemporary music recordings in the jazz and rock genres. Len can be contacted through his website at www.binarymusic.com.au

George Hess
George Hess is currently Associate Professor of Music Technology at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, National University of Singapore. An award-winning educator, he has presented papers, clinics and workshops at conferences throughout the world. Prior to coming to Singapore, George was Professor of Music Technology at Central Michigan University for ten years. He is on the Advisory Board for TI:ME and is an Apple Distinguished Educator. Dr. Hess holds degrees from the Berklee College of Music and University of Northern Colorado. In his spare time, George can be found playing jazz guitar around Singapore.

Alexandra Howes
Alexandra Howes is a educator/ musician who teaches individual instrumental music and whole class lessons in a government schools across Victoria. After completing a Bachelor of Music Performance and Composition, Alexandra pursued her interest in Music Education and completed a Diploma of Education through a sponsored program through the Victorian Department of Education.
Over the last 4 years, Alex has been focussing on the bringing the Musical Futures Classroom program to schools across Australia. In 2010, Alex travelled to London to learn about the innovative and exciting Musical Futures program from David Price. Since then, Alex has travelled throughout Victoria and interstate, delivering training to secondary music teachers and implementing this program across Secondary Schools. 

Antony Hubmayer
Antony Hubmayer is a passionate music educator with over 25 years of classroom teaching experience. He has worked extensively with teachers and students integrating music technology into secondary school music curricula and has presented workshops and papers throughout Australia and internationally. He is the author of the music technology activity resources 'Music Creation Using Garage Band/Mixcraft/ACID Music'. In 2010, he received an Australian Government Award for Excellence in School Music Education and is currently Head of Performing Arts and Director of Music at Scotch College Adelaide.   In his spare time, he composes, records and performs using ‘lots of gadgets’.

James Humberstone
James Humberstone bas been composer in residence at MLC School, Sydney since 2002. He is passionate about composition and music technology and loves it when the two can be combined somehow. In addition to his role at MLC, James often guest lectures in music education, composition and music publishing and is currently a PhD candidate in composition at UNSW. James shares freely many of his teaching and learning resources as well as his compositional output at www.composerhome.com. 

Keith Huxtable
Keith Huxtable is the Managing Director of Music EDnet and has been in the music industry for over 35 years. He has held senior positions with Yamaha and Roland, is a past Vice President of the Australian Music Association and a strong advocate of music and media technology in education.
An engineer and musician, Keith spent many years in professional audio working with recording studios, major live venues, radio and television before moving to Adelaide in 1991 to establish what is now known as Music EDnet.
Today Music EDnet is nationally recognized as a leading source of music technology in education and Keith travels throughout Australia, working closely with teachers, ICT staff and departmental decision makers.

Myke Ireland
Myke loves toys!! Anything that can be plugged in, pulled out, turned up, switched on, re routed, and tweaked he either already owns, or it’s on his wish list. His interest in music started by fumbling through his mother's record collection. Bands like ELO, The Doors and Pink Floyd inspired him to view music from a explorative point of view. 
His experiences include radio, electronic music production and remixing, studio engineering and production, and PA and studio installation and consultancy. Myke has built studios and music technology labs in some of Australia’s most prestigious schools, allowing them to pursue their dreams, and has assisted many schools in enhancing their music tech curriculum to inspire enthusiasm in their students.
Myke is a sessional lecturer at Melbourne’s JMC Academy and Monash University, and is no more at home then when in front of eager enthusiasts wanting to experience those light bulb moments in understanding music technology.

Paul Kucharski
Paul Kucharski is Co-ordinator of Bands and Brass Instruments at Brisbane Girls Grammar School. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Music degree from Indiana University, and a Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching from the University of Southern Queensland. He is a frequent adjudicator and clinician throughout the state. Since 2006, Paul has been the conductor and musical director of Queensland Wind and Brass, one of Queensland’s premier concert bands. He enjoys performing in, and composing for, a variety of genres, including concert bands, jazz ensembles and chamber ensembles.

Yvonne Lang
Yvonne has been involved in the Music Education Industry for more than twenty years, bringing with her a variety of skills in both music teaching, retailing, publishing and software development. She currently drives the implementation of Optimo Software, a specialised music resource management program which has been specifically designed for the Performing Arts. 
Optimo Software is being used by universities, schools and organisations in the United States and Australia and has recently been adopted in Taiwan. Optimo is the world's leading online music resource management program and is being recognised as a 'must have' for any school involved in Performing Arts.

Peter Lee
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Peter has worked in the field of Music Education and Technology for 15 years, and is one of the original authors of the Auralia and Musition programs.  He has worked extensively in the USA, UK and Australia, consulting with teachers and students to better identify appropriate technology solutions for the modern music classroom.
Auralia 4 and Musition 4 are widely acknowledged as leading ear training and theory programs in classrooms and studios around the world.

Peter Mahony
Peter Mahony is the Learning Technologies manager at Powerhouse Museum, where has managed the successful Soundhouse and Thinkspace creative media lab projects since 1994. He is responsible for the programs across four technology learning spaces, including PC labs with MIDI keyboards, collaboration spaces featuring Macbooks, and multiple Interactive whiteboards, and a production studio equipped with rock instruments, vocal booth, DJ rig, and photographic green screen. Powerhouse offers bookable visitor programs for teacher professional development, student groups, school holiday workshops, people with a disability and family groups. www.powerhousemuseum.com/thinkspace 
Peter plays guitar, enjoys surfing, likes dogs, and commutes to work by pushbike.

Luke Marinovich
Luke Marinovich is a graduate of the Auckland School Of Audio Engineering (SAE). Having commenced with Avid in 2007, Luke engages with the retail and professional audio community throughout Australia and New Zealand to deliver technical advice in relation to Avid audio solutions. With a personal interest in electronic music production, Luke is the resident expert on Torq DJ products and M-Audio keyboards, monitors and audio interfaces.

Ric Mills
British born Ric Mills has been teaching professionally for 16 years. He has taught peripatetic piano/organ, church choirs, at primary, secondary, TAFE, private college, graduate and post graduate levels. Ric’s educational areas of interest include Performance, Composition and Music Technology. As well as designing the Keyboard Revolution program Ric works as a PTC Teacher and Co-ordinator with TAFE South Western Sydney Institute on the Music Industry Studies Program. Ric also works as Educational & Product Specialist for Casio Sound Technology (Australia). In his spare time he composes music for film & TV. His work is often heard on all the main Australia TV Channels via Universal Production Music Australia. In addition, Ric holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition for Film & TV gained at Kingston University in London.  Ric lives in South West Sydney with his wife Priscille and baby daughter Matilda. He enjoys running and watching UKTV!

Josh Munday
Joshua Munday describes himself as the kind of person who can light up a room just by flicking a switch. Entertaining and informative, he has become one of Roland's most requested presenters.  Josh’s background includes hundreds of live gigs; encompassing everything from heavy metal to jazz to blues. He has played in a variety of cover bands, original bands and duos - entertaining audiences at stadiums, clubs, pubs and guitar shows all over Australia.  He has recorded dozens of songs, and earlier this year released a music video that has now become one of the most requested early morning clips of all time on Rage. Having used Roland and Boss musical equipment for over 15 years, Josh knows how to get the right sound for any situation. He is the first person in Australia to try out brand new Digital Recording Studios, Multi-FX, Pedals & Guitar Synthesizers and has been personally invited to visit the Boss R&D centre in Japan (to which he quickly replied ‘yes please!’).

Soo Yu Shen
Since the start of his career with Pinnacle in 2002, Yu Shen has been at the forefront of handling Pinnacle Studio for the Asia Pacific Pinnacle Division. From Technical Support to Distributor Support to conducting weekly training sessions for Singaporean consumers on the usage of Pinnacle Studio, he has been the face the public sees, during seminar launches with each and every new version of Pinnacle Studio. Currently a Product Manager with Pinnacle handing the Australian New Zealand region, Soo Yu Shen graduated with a Diploma in Legal Studies (Law & Management) from Temasek Polytechnic, and has just completed a Business Management with Marketing, an off-shore Bachelor Degree course conducted at the Singapore Institute of Management, and awarded by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. 

Stuart Newman
As a Composer/Music Producer, Stuart Newman has produced hundreds of TV commercials, albums and audio/music for short and feature films and has over 14 years of experience in the recording arts. Originally from Tasmania, Stuart has a Diploma of Audio Engineering/Music Production and has worked as a sound engineer and producer in major facilities around the world including, China, Dubai, New Zealand, Singapore and South East Asia. His role as Audio Channel Pre-sales Manager, Asia Pacific involves close consultation with high-end audio professionals to develop solutions for pro-audio production and composition. 

Tim Nikolsky
Versatility, passion and dedication are what Tim Nikolsky brings to his music. As well as being an accomplished guitarist, his abilities extend to arranging, composing, recording, and teaching. Tim is a well rounded, professional musician with a BA Music Industry, Advanced Dip. Contemporary Music and a Grad. Dip. Education (Music). Tim is currently completing a PhD at RMIT University. Tim Nikolsky & Margot Leighton have been making music together since they met in 1997, performing jazz as the voice and guitar duo White With Two as well as playing in combo's with some of Melbourne's finest jazz musicians including Bob Sedergreen, Paul Williamson, Alan Browne and Nick Haywood. They have performed at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the Stonnington Jazz Festival, and make regular appearances at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival each year. As well as appearances on Good Morning Australia and In Melbourne Today they have performed live to air on Derek Guille's evening show on 774 ABC Melbourne and Jazz On Saturday on PBS FM. Tim has also performed at the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Concert Hall. Tim has many composition and recording credits to his name. Tim is a musician who is well prepared to take on anything in the music industry: From event management, organising gigs, promotional strategies, sound engineering, professional development, conducting workshops, rehearsing and organising ensembles, website design, recording, arranging, composing, mastering, producing, post-production, film, television, radio and advertising. 

Kevin O'Mara
Kevin O’Mara, of Bushfire Press - music education publishers - oversaw the classroom programs Cool Cats Cross Arts Adventures and the popular Music Room. Some years ago he saw the potential for IWB technology in music education and commissioned South Australian teacher Cheryl Burgemeister to develop a software series addressing music teaching in a fun and interactive way. The Interactive Music Room – Book 1 and Book 2 are the first available titles, in a series of 7. Kevin is a VIT registered teacher in Victoria and runs a vocal/instrumental group of 70 students in a local primary school each week.

Oscar Partridge
Oscar Partridge, a film and media major, is an evangelist on learning technology in contemporary digital content creation. Working as a tutor at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, he takes a variety of courses for professional adult learning, as well as student based practice for short film production, digital music creation and photo composite.

Ray Partridge
Ray Partridge is a Music Technology consultant based in Sydney and has been involved with Music Technology for over 20 years. He specializes in providing training, support and professional development for studio, classroom and instrumental teachers and is well aware of the great opportunities that music technology can provide to both the educator and student. He has delivered music technology presentations for the South Australian and New South Wales Music Teachers Associations, ASME, the Association of Independent Schools, the Conservatorium of Music Open Academy, the University of Western Sydney, The SoundHouse Association, Alfreds Publishing and many schools throughout NSW. He also consults for Roland Corporation as their education Specialist. Ray can help you understand the why’s and how’s of music technology and his technology sessions are informative, easy to understand and relevant to today’s music teachers and students and his relaxed presentation style will have you feeling comfortable with technology.

David Pritchard-Blunt
David is a musical director and arranger for Australian television, theatre and albums. David originally hails from New Zealand, but now calls Australia home, where he has been Sydney-based since 1993. He has arranged extensively for television, including seven seasons of Australian Idol and for theatre productions such as "Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert" (currently playing in London's West End) and "Burn The Floor" on Broadway. In 2009, David took over as Musical Director of Australian Idol.

Marcel Pusey
Marcel Pusey is a London (UK) based composer, bass player and educator. Marcel’s Award Winning company, Bassistry Music Education (BME) is one of the UK’s leading music educational workshop groups. Marcel’s dynamic, innovative workshop programs for schools explores Latin, African and Contemporary Rhythm, Song and Dance. The workshops now operate throughout the UK, Australia and Hong Kong. 
Marcel co-designed O-Generator the innovative educational music software and worked alongside Sibelius Music Software (Avid) for many years. Marcel has composed and produced albums, written music for television and multimedia companies and employs some of the countries top musicians. Marcel regularly works as artist in residence in international schools and colleges around the world.

Anthony Roach (B.Mus/B.Ed)
Since graduating from UNSW in 1999, Anthony has worked as a performer, classroom music teacher and as private guitar tutor. Anthony's key areas of interest are classical guitar and music technology. For the last 10 years Anthony has worked for Major Music Wholesale, primarily as a product specialist supporting music software and recording equipment such as MOTU, Fostex, Antares, Vienna Symphonic Library, BIAS, FL Studio and Notion.

Andrew Robertson
Ex-Con (NSW Conservatorium!) Andrew has followed a career as a professional muso, composer/arranger, publisher and educator. He’s performed with artists such as Michael Buble, James Morrison, Tom Burlinson, Hugh Jackman, Jerry Lewis and in major Broadway shows. He has also recorded many well known jingles for television.
Andrew is well known through his involvement with JozzBeat Music Publishing - the Primary Music Resources, Print Music and “Jellybeans In-Schools Music Program” company.
Andrew is in strong demand as an Arranger, writing for Australian Idol, Eurovision Song Contest, television ads and “Battle Of The Choirs” on Australian TV. He was Director of the NSW Dept. of Education Performing Arts Unit Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble 1997-2006 and conducts workshops and lectures throughout Australia and abroad in Primary Music teaching and Improvisation and Arranging.

David Rogers
David Rogers is an educator at the Digital Learning Hub at the Arts Centre, Melbourne, where he develops and delivers programs that include music technology, multimedia and film making.  He is a home recording enthusiast and produces music for bands, advertisements and television from a small home studio, including a remix for Dead Man Bling. David performs in a number of bands, playing in mostly empty rooms around Melbourne.  He holds an Honours Degree in Behavioural Science and a Diploma of Education.

Michael Rohanek
Michael Rohanek, B.Mus.Ed., Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Currently teaching music technology at TAFE, specialising in Logic Pro, Sibelius, Reason. Previously tech support with MOTU / Digital Performer for Mac. Playing keyboards/piano with Deni Hines, Tamsin Carroll, Christine Anu.

Stephen Sajkowsky
Stephen works as Development Officer for Soundhouse Music Alliance, and as a Musical Futures educator both at Footscray West Primary School and Carranballac College Point Cook. He has experience working both with students and teachers delivering programs in music technology, instrumental music, electronic music, and multimedia.  He’s been a percussionist all his life, but realized while living in New York that playing I-IV-V on bass in a 60’s era country-rock cover band was his TRUE calling. His special interests include beat making, the art of sampling, and the history of blues, soul, and hip-hop. He holds a Bachelors of Music Performance in Percussion from the University of Toronto, and has teaching experience in New York, South Korea, and Melbourne.

Soo Yu Shen
Bio to come

Stephen Stanfield
Stephen Stanfield (b. 1966) is a Brisbane–based composer and music educator with a broad interest in art and popular music. In recent times he has been concentrating on electronic composition presented in surround sound performance and listening environments and is currently undertaking Doctoral studies in this area at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Stanfield has been engaged as composer and surround sound designer for interdisciplinary site–specific collaborations with Australian and international visual artists and choreographers and has lectured in composition, contextual music studies, and music technology at various Queensland tertiary institutions and secondary schools. He is currently Director of Music at Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane.

Attila Szlay
As an educator, Attila (B.A. Contemporary Music, B.Teaching - Secondary) has taught music in high schools around NSW, delivering the HSC curriculum and Music Industry VET courses. Leading workshops in video editing and digital recording as part of the ‘Values of Education’ initiative and video and music editing with the Department of Education and Training, Attila has developed valuable insights into achieving music curriculum outcomes through the applications of technology. A published author, he has also written for Music in Action on technology applications for the classroom. Working for Roland as an Education Specialist Attila has an easy going approach to helping teachers engage their students with the use of music ICT.

Kate Thompson 
Kate Thompson (B Mus (Hons), B Ed) has been teaching classroom music for four years at Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) in Brisbane and currently teaches Prep to Year 7. After completing her dual degree at the University of Queensland and McGill University (Montreal), Kate was lucky enough to be awarded a scholarship for a Rural Internship through Education Queensland which offered her the experience of teaching in rural Queensland prior to her current position at Churchie. 
In 2008 Kate completed her Australian Kodaly Certificate and in 2010 joined the Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia’s Queensland Committee. Kate is currently in the process of completing her Masters of Music Studies through the University of Queensland.

William Thorpe
Dr Thorpe's training is in the acoustic analysis of voice. He spent several years working with singing teachers at the National Voice Centre and the School of Communication Sciences in the University of Sydney, doing research on breathing in singing and flute performance, acoustics of the singing voice, and the use of visual feedback in singing training.  After returning to New Zealand he set up Cantovation Technology to develop and commercialise advanced acoustic analysis software tools suitable for use by singers and teachers. He is also an associate research fellow at the Bioengineering Institute of the University of Auckland where he is pursuing research in the physiology of voice production.

Shane Tooley
Shane graduated from QUT in 2002, with bachelor degrees in Music and Education. Since then he has quickly established a strong reputation as a Music Educator and specialist in Music Technology Education. He has worked at a number of leading secondary schools and is now the Director of Music at Ormiston College. Shane’s specialisation in Music Education and ICT integration has seen him complete a Masters of Learning Innovation at QUT and publish a number of journal articles on the integration of ICT into Music Education in leading national professional journals. He has worked widely as a Professional Development facilitator and consultant on music classroom pedagogy using technological resources.

Katie Wardrobe
Katie Wardrobe is a qualified teacher who enjoys helping people who are short on time and dislike reading software manuals.  Katie runs her own business - Midnight Music - which specialises in music technology training for educators and students, as well as offering music publishing services such as transcribing and typesetting.  She presents regularly at conferences and events around Australia and in 2010, ran a highly successful series of “BYO laptop” workshops for music teachers on behalf of the Association of Music Educators (Victoria).  Katie works regularly as a freelance copyist, music arranger and transcriber and is an Executive member of the Music Arrangers Guild of Australia.  Website: www.midnightmusic.com.au

Peter Wardrobe
Peter studied at Southern Cross University where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Music. He then studied at the University of Melbourne where he completed a Bachelor of Teaching degree and subsequently taught classroom music for 5 years. Peter then explored his love of music technology at the Alfred Brash SoundHouse at The Arts Centre in Melbourne, working as Programme Delivery Coordinator running student workshops and professional development courses for teachers. Peter moved to Sibelius (now a part of Avid) in 2006, and as full-time Education specialist, he developed new ways of integrating Sibelius software into the Australian music classroom.  In 2009, Peter took on the position of Avid's Education Manager for Australia and New Zealand. 

Michael White
Michael has worked in a variety of roles in music, as an artist, session musician, songwriter, arranger, producer, promoter, sound engineer and radio host. Additionally, Michael has been working as a session Music teacher in secondary schools and through private tuition, as well as working at Victoria University in Education. With a Bachelor of Music and Music Technology, both Michael's experience and passion drive him to develop exciting and engaging Music curriculum.

Anne Wisdom
Anne has focused on Music Technology since the late 80s when she discovered that computers could add another dimension to music teaching. She began to develop resources and tutorials for incorporating music technology into classroom music teaching and has presented these to teachers at Summer Schools at the University of Newcastle Conservatorium Campus, DET schools in NSW, and various conferences, for many years. She developed, wrote and mentored an online Music Technology in Education unit for teachers, providing them with credit points towards a Masters degree, in collaboration with DET and the University of Newcastle. As Director of Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre at Macquarie University in 2003-4, Anne was able to develop and trial new ideas and techniques for incorporating technology in creative arts education. She later incorporated many of these ideas into the K-9 Music Syllabus for Abu Dhabi, which she wrote as part of the Curriculum Team for Tafe Global. Anne is currently lecturing in Music Technology in Education to Bachelor of Music Education students at the University of Sydney Conservatorium Campus. 

Samuel Wright
Since completing a Bachelor of Music & Music Education double degree from UNSW in 2005, Samuel has been working in the Southern Highlands of NSW as a classroom teacher, ensemble manager and private instrumental tutor.  Dedicated to refining his practice, Samuel has attained his Professional Competency Accreditation with the NSW Institute of Teaching; Level 1 and 2 of Orff-Schulwerk’s Teacher Accreditation; Presented at the AIS ICT Integrators Conference in October 2010 and has completed two-thirds of a Masters of Music Technology through Newcastle University.  Samuel strives to provide a music education based on sound academic and practical knowledge, with technology integrated for content-rich lessons.  Samuel uses Apple Mac software with Logic, Reason and Sibelius to creating exciting resources for educators.

Nelson Wu
Born in Taiwan and educated in Auckland, New Zealand, Dr Po-Yi (Nelson) Wu read PhD in Music Theory and Analysis at King’s College London. He also studied violin with Professor Igor Petrushevski at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He was the Head of Music at Auckland Grammar School in New Zealand in 2008-2010. He is now the Director of Performing Arts at The Scots College in Sydney, Australia.