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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’.
MICHAEL WILSON
Musical Director - Vox Populus
Photo and Bio coming very soon!
JAMES DOBINSON
Musical Director - VoiceWorks
James has worked extensively in Brisbane as an Actor, Music Director, Conductor, Chorus Coach and Repetiteur, including guest conducting spots with theatre companies and schools in and around Brisbane.
While his passion has always been music theatre, James's onstage career includes roles in music theatre, straight theatre and opera. He is about to complete a Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, majoring in voice and minoring in conducting and music theatre. He also holds an Associate diploma and Performers Certificate in Voice from Trinity College, London.
James is an accomplished composer/lyricist and arranger. Produced projects include No Cards, a musical, premiered in 2002, scores for the films Suspect (2003) and Behind Closed Doors (2004) as well as many works for voice and piano, including the song cycle Cabaret Songs, which he premiered in 2005.
Completed major works include the musicals Creatures of Impulse (book, music and lyrics), The End (libretto) and his opera Il Suolo Del Bazar (libretto and music).
Roles include: Malcolm (The Full Monty, Lickety-Split @ the Cremorne, QPAC) / Britt Craig (Parade, Warehaus @ the Cremorne, QPAC) / Angel (Rent, Brisbane Premiere, Starlight Music Theatre) / Rapunzel's Prince & Wolf 2 (Into The Woods, Harvest Rain) / Balladeer & Lee Harvey Oswald (Assassins, Warehaus @ the Cremorne, QPAC) / Malcolm (The Full Monty, Brisbane Premiere, Arts) / Dorian Gray (Portrait, World Premiere, JWP)
Offstage Credits: SIde By Side By Sondheim (Music Director/Keyboards, 2006) / Parade (Music Director, 2006) / The Bleach'd Bunny (co-composer/repetiteur, 2005) / Assassins (Music Director, 2005) / Footloose (Chorus Coach/Repetiteur/Keyboards, 2004), Bats (Conductor/Revised Orchestrations, 2004) / Die Zauberflote (Repetiteur, 2004) / Grease (Repetiteur, 2003)
PENNY CONNOLLY-COATES
Musical Director -Vivace Voices
Photo and Bio coming very soon!
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 herstudies 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 completed 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, both in Stella Voce in addition to being a member of Vox Populus. 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!
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.
KATHRYN YARROW
ATMusA, DipMusTeach
Director - Bambino Music
Kathryn iss a Do-Re-Mi music teacher based in Carindale. She loves sharing music with people of all ages and has a special love of working with young children. Kathryn has taught Do-Re-Mi classes from her home studio for 8 years & has 12 classes each week. She enjoys teaching some of the very young at Qld Youth Choir (Bambinos) and also does relief teaching at the Young Conservatorium.
Kathryn teaches piano and also works with her local church co-ordinating music ensemble groups, co-leading a children’s choir, and last year started a community choir especially for those who have been told that they can’t sing! Kathryn has completed the Aust. Kodaly Certificate in Early Childhood. Kathryn adores the music of Mozart & all things pink!
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