| Background: |
 Liz has been teaching flute, clarinet & saxophone for over 20 years in schools and in her private studio.
Many students have successfully completed A.M.E.B. exams, VCE solo and group performance. Other students have chosen to learn in a more popular style, sometimes including using CD's and backing tracks.
Liz has had many years experience in conducting beginning bands and more advanced groups. Her bands have continually achieved Siver and Gold awards at the Melbourne School Bands Festival.
Liz was invited to be a guest conductor for the Regional School Concert at the Melbourne Concert Hall and has also been a guest conductor in Queensland and New Zealand.
Woodwind Ensembles and junior Jazz ensembles have also been a busy area of her music life.
She was Director of Music at Upper Yarra S.C.for over 15 years where she ran a very successful and exciting music program.
Liz has involved her students in competitions with very successful results and has travelled with bands and ensembles both interstate and overseas. |
| Qualifications: |
Dip.Mus. (Melb. Uni.) |
| Associations: |
Victorian Institute of Teaching
Flute Guild
Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association
Clarinet & Saxophone Society |
| Testimonials: |
Please visit the Studio Blog |
| Hobbies: |
Liz enjoys spending time with her family,reading, walking and spending as much time as she can at the beach!!
She also loves to travel within Australia and overseas.
Meg the resident music critic enjoys listening to her students. Check out the photo! |
| Student Successes: |
Many of Liz's students have gone on to study music at University and have become music teachers or performers.
To Liz, her greatest success is the amount of students who love music, their lessons and the progress they make. |
| Strengths: |
Liz's strengths are the caring attitude towards all students and the belief that any student can succeed if they try!
She sets realistic and achieveable goals for individual students. |
| Other Info: |
Liz likes to keep in touch with all aspects of music teaching, performance and music technology. She is currently the music co-ordinator and woodwind teacher at Healesville High School and also teaches at Badger Creek Primary School. |
