Wendy Rolls enjoys working with singers as a teacher, conductor and performer. She currently divides her time between choral conducting (at Brisbane Girls Grammar School & All Hallows’ School), classroom music (at BGGS) and singing teaching in small group and one-to-one settings (BGGS, AHS & Mary MacKillop College, Nundah, and private studio).

Wendy holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Science (UQ), Bachelor of Education (QUT), and an Australian Kodály Certificate and a Master of Music Studies in vocal pedagogy from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. Her Masters’ thesis was titled: The adolescent female singer: What pedagogy is best for her voice?

She has presented workshops and seminars on vocal pedagogy, vocal health for teachers, and classroom musicianship as well as conference presentations for Kodály Australia, Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS) and Australian National Choral Association (ANCA). Wendy is committed to supporting music teachers to achieve optimum vocal health, and to apply the principles of Kodály-informed musicianship and evidence-based vocal pedagogy in choral and classroom settings. She believes that we must foster healthy, sustainable singing in children to set up for a lifetime.

Kathy Rappel is a specialist music teacher at Brisbane Boys’ College where she implements a Music Every Day Program for the Prep to Year 3 students. A significant initiative of this program is commissioning new Australian choral repertoire suitable for young children and supporting the work of Australian composers. Kathy has presented workshops both locally and nationally and was a guest lecturer in music education at the University of Queensland. She has run musicianship classes for Kodály Queensland and was the Director of the Young Composers’ Competition for the Australian Society of Music Education for numerous years. Kathy is passionate about bringing new ideas into her classroom to better educate her students.

Debbie O’Shea is a Primary School Music Specialist who currently teaches at The Gap State School in Brisbane. She is an advocate of voiced-based music education for everyone.

Debbie has had an extensive career teaching and coordinating music programs from Preschool to University level and developing teaching materials for music educators.

Debbie has taught in State Schools, Catholic Schools and Independent Schools in Cairns and Brisbane. During her time in Cairns, Debbie was instrumental in forming the Cairns Chapter of KMEIA Qld and arranging in-service opportunities for teachers in the area, including the Kodaly Certificate Courses. She has also taught Early Childhood classes at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.