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PhD (Ed), MTeaching, MMus (Perf), BMus, BMedSci (Hons)
DipModLang, (German), Churchill Fellow
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Experience & Appointments
MONTESSORI INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE Prep-Yr 12 (current)
Instrumental music teacher: Classical Voice and Piano. Prep-Yr 12, 2021
Regular Relief Classroom Music Teacher. Prep-Yr 6, 2021
WAVELL HEIGHTS STATE HIGH SCHOOL Yrs 7-12
German Teacher, 4-week contract relieving HoD, 2021
TALARA PRIMARY COLLEGE Yrs 4-5
Italian Relief Teaching, 2021
NORTH ARM STATE SCHOOL Yrs 2-6
Music and Italian Relief teaching, 2021
COOLUM STATE HIGH SCHOOL Yrs 8-12
Japanese, English, Food Technology, Relief Teaching, 2021
MARY VALLEY STATE COLLEGE Prep -Yr 10
General Relief Teaching, 2021
NOOSA STRING ENSEMBLE
Assistant Conductor, 2020-2021
MAROOCHYDORE STATE HIGH SCHOOL Yrs 7-12
Pre-Service Teacher: Music. 15-day full-time pre-service teacher placement, November 2020
Pre-Service Teacher: Music. 10-day full-time pre-service teacher placement, October 2019
NOOSA PENGARI STEINER SCHOOL Yrs 1-10
Pre-Service Teacher: German, Italian, Music, Drama. 20-day full-time pre-service teacher placement, September-October 2020
ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN COLLEGE Yr 12
Consultant teacher: Year 12 music performance: Term IV 2019. Review (Bonar)
Assistant Orchestral Tutor: Primary String Ensemble, 2019
Speech & Performance Coach: Tournament of Minds, Primary Language/Literature, 2019
VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (University of Melbourne)
Curriculum creator, course co-ordinator, lecturer & tutor in BMus voice performance
Yr 1: Italian 2002-3
Yr 2: German 2002-3
Yr 3: French 2002-3
TERTIARY APPOINTMENTS
Griffith University: Adjunct Research Fellow, 2018-Present
University of Queensland: Adjunct Research Fellow, 2013-2016
University of Otago: Sessional Lecturer, 2008-2010
OTHER INTERNATIONAL TEACHING
Performance Workshop: Clara-Schumann Gymnasium (High School), Bonn, Germany.
Publications on Teaching
BOOKS
Educating Alexander: How Marjorie Barstow Saved the Alexander Technique. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021 in press.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Mentorship Model of the AT in the Performing Arts.” In Manzin & Duche, Fictional, Artistic and Scholarly Mentoring Partnerships. Garnier Classique. 2021 in press.
ARTICLES: PEER-REVIEWED
"António Fragoso’s Canções do Sol Poente: A Song Cycle of Saudade from the Renascença Portuguesa." Journal of Singing (USA). 2021, in press.
"The trouble with adjectives: Aligning singing tuition and artistic practice with procedural learning theory." Australian Voice, 21, 49-56. 2020.
“Balance and Tension I: The Jaw and Tongue in Relation to the Whole.” Australian Voice 10, 7-14, 2020.
“What is performance and why should we teach it?” Australian Journal of Music Education 52 (2), 46-57, 2019.
“Do you Really Mean That? Towards Precise, Considered and Constructive Language in Performance Teaching.” Australian Journal of Music Education 3, 4-15, 2015.
OTHER ARTICLES
“Aligning Singing Instruction with Human Design (Part II): Body Mapping and the Whole.” Sing Out (Australian National Choral Association – ANCA) 37(1), 16-19, 2020.
“Aligning Singing Instruction with Human Design (Part I): 5 words to leave at the door of your next choral rehearsal” Sing Out (ANCA) 36(3), 4-6, 2019.
Music & Languages
RECORDINGS
Tree Place Exhibition 2018-19
Cole, A & U Wullfen. “Hildegard Multimedia Work.” Installation at Noosa Regional Gallery.
Hildegard and the Celtic Bard 2018, Kimbeth Productions
Cole, A & K Kirkman. Works from Medieval Germany, Renaissance France and British Isles.
The Dew Gatherers 2017. MOVE Records
Brewer, J, A Cole & N Heymink. Songs, Arias & Variations by JP Krieger.
Review (O’Connell) “One for the true specialists” in Do you Hear what I hear? Nov 9, 2017.
Review (Downer) “The Dew Gatherers.” Australian Double Reed Society, 21 (1), 37-38, 2018.
Saudade: A Portuguese Songbook 2009. Ode Records, NZ
Cole, A & S Crawshaw. Recorded as Jack Straw Recording Studio Artist in Residence, Seattle.
Review (Berg) Journal of Singing, 2010. 67(2) 242-244
The Witch Hunt 1999.
Soundtrack by Cezary Skubiszewski. Cole, A, M Arnold & D Ashton-Smith
PUBLIC PERFORMANCES – SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS 2009-2019
Woodford Folk Festival 2019, Woodford
Alto soloist with Inspiration Choir and Orchestra, works by Purcell.
Amici in Armonia: Viva Vivaldi Festival 2019, Maleny
Works by Vivaldi. Cole, A (mezzo), K Kirkman (violin), A Bowyer (cello), D Steele (spinet),
Hildegard and Volmar, A Poem of Friendship. Anywhere Festival 2019, Brisbane
Cole, A, K Kirkman & C Madden. Sunshine Coast & Fortitude Valley.
Review (Borsato) Anywhere Festival Reviews Review (Hetherington) Ride Home Review
Vivaldi’s Venice in Concert 2019, Caloundra
Inspiration Project Choir and Orchestra. A Cole, H Brereton & K Kirkman.
The Genius of Beethoven 2018, Coolum and Caloundra
Beethoven Lieder, Welsh Songs and the Archduke Trio. A Cole, J Brewer, J O’Reilly, K Tong.
The Gypsy Violin Tradition 2018, Cooran
Roberts, C & N Craddock with A Cole. Gypsy-inspired works.
Hildegard and the Celtic Bard 2017, Maleny and Conondale
Cole, A & K Kirkman.
English Ayres and Graces: 4MBS Festival of Classics 2017, Coolum & Caloundra
Cole, A & Pacific Chamber Players. Works by Clarke, Vaughan Williams, Grainger, Britten.
Three Forces of the Soul: St Hildegard. Music, Art, Healing. Horizon Festival 2016, Eumundi
Cole, A, A Harris & H Merika.
To Russia with Love: 4MBS Festival of Classics 2016, Coolum and Caloundra
Cole, A & Pacific Chamber Players. Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky.
Baroque Brilliance 2015, Cooroy and Eudlo
Cole, A & Pacific Chamber Players. Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater and Sol da te.
Geist: The German Genius & Spirit in Song from the 12th to the 20th Centuries, 2014
Cole, A, C Madden, J Brewer, W Brewer & A Paszlowski. Noosaville, Caloundra, Cooran.
Handel’s Messiah Dunedin Town Hall Centenary Celebration, 2013, New Zealand
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, D Burchell, A Cole, D Hamilton, L Johnston, J Lemalu.
Proud Fire or Sacred Fear: Songs and Instrumental Music by Henry Purcell, 2013
Rare Byrds Early Music Consort with A Cole, A Goode & J Cweorth, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Poèmes de Paul Verlaine, 2012
Cole, A & J van Buskirk. Society of Women Musicians. Dunedin, New Zealand.
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle, 2012, City Choir Dunedin, Dunedin
Recording at YouTube. Review (Poole), Otago Daily Times, 1 October 2012
Chamber Music New Zealand: Angels and Aristocrats, 2012
Cole, A, R Shurbutt & J van Buskirk. Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
The Beauty of Baroque, City of Dunedin Choir, Southern Sinfonia, 2012
Burchell, D, P Becker, S Chambers, C Clifford, A Cole, G Park, J van Mellaerts.
FORTHCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
Noosa Orchestra November 2020
Mezzo-Soprano Soloist
Hildegard and Volmar: German Tour (Bingen, Bonn, Aachen) January 2022
We have been invited to perform this show in the crypt of Hildegard’s monastery in Bingen.
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
FRENCH
STUDY AND EXPERIENCE
In-country study total: 9 months (Paris, Brussels) Language Immersion
Tertiary study: 1 semester: Advanced French A (top stream), University of Melbourne
Secondary study: Year 12 French (including school French Prize)
AWARDS
Attestation de Niveau de Compétence Supérieur– Eurocentre, Paris
Alliance Française de Melbourne: Language Prize
GERMAN
STUDY AND EXPERIENCE
In-country study total: 10 months (Freiburg, Bonn, Munich) Language Immersion
Tertiary study: 3 years leading to a major in German language & culture
Adjudicator: University of Melbourne German Poetry Competition, 2001
AWARDS
Diploma of Modern Languages
Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung
University of Melbourne School of Languages Scholarship for In-Country Study
ITALIAN AND LATIN
STUDY AND EXPERIENCE
In-country study total: 4 months (Urbania, Padua) Language Immersion
Tertiary study: 1 Year Latin: University of Melbourne (top of year)
MEMBERSHIP of PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
ANZARME: Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education
ANCA: Australian National Choral Association
ANATS Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing
ATI: Alexander Technique International
Dalcroze Australia
NATS: National Association of Teachers of Singing (USA)