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Musical Directors
RHONDA COADY
TSTC Mus. GDME
Musical Director - StellaVoce
Rhonda grew up in Swan Hill, Victoria, and studied at the Melbourne University Conservatorium, majoring in voice and piano. She became a secondary school music teacher and taught in Victorian high schools for five years.
After a year of touring with the Australian Opera, she moved to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast in 1972. There she directed the local children’s chorale and commenced primary school music teaching. She sang lead roles in many musical productions and became involved in the both the performance and organisational sides of the eisteddfod movement. Rhonda was transferred to Brisbane in 1987 and was asked to become founding director of the Queensland Children’s Choir (now StellaVoce). She has also established her own music studio teaching piano and voice.
In her own words Rhonda ‘endeavours to provide the children with memorable choral experiences, similar to those I have enjoyed over many years of singing with and being involved in directing choirs and ensembles’.
KIMBERLEY CRAWFORD
B. Mus (Hons) B. Ed
Musical Director - Vivace Voice
Kimberley is currently teaching secondary classroom music at Mt Alvernia College, where she also directs a number of choral ensembles including an SSA Chamber Choir and the Middle School Voices choral program.
Kimberley graduated from the University of Queensland in 2006, completing a Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Education (Secondary). She is currently completing a Masters of Music Studies in Aural Methodology and Choral Conducting at the University of Queensland.
Kimberley has completed an Australian Certificate in Kodály Music Education specializing in primary education, and is currently undertaking further study towards a certificate in Secondary Kodály Music Education.
Kimberley has been a member of various choral ensembles in the past including the Queensland Kodaly Choir and the internationally recognized So-la Voce which has toured extensively throughout Europe and Australia, participating in choral competitions and festivals with much success. She is a keen advocate of choral music for all.
MARION WOOD
Musical Director - Poco Voci
Marion was born and bred in Brisbane. She has been involved in choral work since a very early age, joining the school choir and also performing in community choirs such as Newmarket Junior Choristers, Brisbane Eisteddfod Junior Choir and Musica Antiquica College.
Although Marion has always sung, it wasn’t until her teenage years that she seriously took up the study of music. Since doing so she has gained a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and a post graduate Diploma in Music Education from QUT.
Marion has taught with Education Queensland for the past 26 years and has had at least one school choir, amongst other groups, every year. During that time she has also taught privately and continued to study voice. She has organised district choral festivals with up to 300 voices on stage.
DEBBIE WILSON
B Teach (Mus. major) Grad Dip Spec Ed
Director - Bambino Music
Debbie has taught music to children in many different settings over the past 16 years. She began teaching for Education Queensland in a small country town called Harrisville where she taught both general classroom subjects and music. She then moved on to be a foundation staff member at Forest Lake College and, prior to the birth of her children, she was Music Coordinator at the College, a wonderful job where all children from Prep to Year 12 learnt a musical instrument and had a classroom music lesson.
While on maternity leave she discovered the joys of do-re-mi teaching after enrolling her own children in the program and was inspired to further her studies and become a do-re-mi teacher herself. Debbie is now Queensland State Coordinator for do-re-mi and is a Kodaly Music Education Institute of Australia committee member. In 2008, Debbie will complete her Australian Kodaly Certificate in Early Childhood.
Debbie has had a long standing relationship with the Queensland Youth Choir as a member of Voiceworks (1989-1993 and married to another chorister, Michael) and now as the mother of two choristers, one in Poco Voci and one in Stella Voce. Debbie’s passion is teaching young children and she believes in the Kodaly concept that all children have the ability to learn music and the younger the better!
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