There's a lot of information about my activities on other pages of this website, so on this page I'll give you the big picture.
I was born in north eastern Victoria, and lived there until my family moved to Melbourne when I was in my early teens. I was lucky to have enlightened neighbours possessed of endless reserves of tolerance while I explored what the piano can do, and thanks to Mrs Errey, a local church elder who ran a small salon in her home, I got to play my first grand piano around the age of five. The pipe organ bug bit when I was ten, shortly after I took up formal piano studies. I later received a personal scholarship from Jean Starling, one of Australia's greatest musicians.
In 1998 I started a BA at Latrobe University, but moved to Melbourne University the following year to study for my Bachelor of Music, which I completed in 2002. During this time I studied the organ with Christopher Cook and harpsichord with Elizabeth Anderson. In 2005 I completed the Master of Music by research at Australian Catholic University, and you can find my thesis here.
In 2007 I embarked on the PhD adventure at the University of Melbourne, and my thesis ended up being an institutional biography of the second Ormond Professor of Music, Franklin Peterson, combined with a solid chunk of post-colonial theorizing about the origins of the Australian Music Examinations Board. Several conference papers and a couple of publications later, I am still thinking about parts of this work.
My broader interests cover a fairly broad scope. I enjoy fitness training, and have been a commuter cyclist along the way. I enjoy exploring connections between music and other disciplines, including visual arts, theology, literature, mathematics, the physical environment, psychology, community building...and so on. A few years ago I took a course in Koine (New Testament Greek), and reading the early Christian literature has become one of my passions. Old and new almost always travel together for me: I am also interested in how to use technology to enhance music performance, so these days you are less and less likely to see me with a bag full of music scores and more likely to see me setting up the iPad and Air Turn before unfolding the magic of Bach's Trio Sonatas.
I always have a book nearby, and usually a pen and a piece of paper in hand. I enjoy coffee and when there's time I can be found slinging book, pen and paper around a decent cafe.
I was born in north eastern Victoria, and lived there until my family moved to Melbourne when I was in my early teens. I was lucky to have enlightened neighbours possessed of endless reserves of tolerance while I explored what the piano can do, and thanks to Mrs Errey, a local church elder who ran a small salon in her home, I got to play my first grand piano around the age of five. The pipe organ bug bit when I was ten, shortly after I took up formal piano studies. I later received a personal scholarship from Jean Starling, one of Australia's greatest musicians.
In 1998 I started a BA at Latrobe University, but moved to Melbourne University the following year to study for my Bachelor of Music, which I completed in 2002. During this time I studied the organ with Christopher Cook and harpsichord with Elizabeth Anderson. In 2005 I completed the Master of Music by research at Australian Catholic University, and you can find my thesis here.
In 2007 I embarked on the PhD adventure at the University of Melbourne, and my thesis ended up being an institutional biography of the second Ormond Professor of Music, Franklin Peterson, combined with a solid chunk of post-colonial theorizing about the origins of the Australian Music Examinations Board. Several conference papers and a couple of publications later, I am still thinking about parts of this work.
My broader interests cover a fairly broad scope. I enjoy fitness training, and have been a commuter cyclist along the way. I enjoy exploring connections between music and other disciplines, including visual arts, theology, literature, mathematics, the physical environment, psychology, community building...and so on. A few years ago I took a course in Koine (New Testament Greek), and reading the early Christian literature has become one of my passions. Old and new almost always travel together for me: I am also interested in how to use technology to enhance music performance, so these days you are less and less likely to see me with a bag full of music scores and more likely to see me setting up the iPad and Air Turn before unfolding the magic of Bach's Trio Sonatas.
I always have a book nearby, and usually a pen and a piece of paper in hand. I enjoy coffee and when there's time I can be found slinging book, pen and paper around a decent cafe.