Kathy Derrin is a primary music educator who currently teaches at seven small schools (some isolated / disadvantaged) in the hinterland of Coffs Harbour in NSW. She has embraced the Orff Schulwerk process since attending an Orff summer school at UNE, Armidale in 1979 and uses the pedagogy in all aspects of her teaching. Her great loves are choral conducting and composition.
 
Melissa Dods (Vic) lectures part time in music at Melbourne University and was a music specialist at Melbourne Grammar Junior School Grimwade House for many years. She is an experienced workshop leader with extensive background in the Kod ly and Orff approaches, having presented at music conferences in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and the ACT. Her main area of expertise is with vocal skills and for the last eight years has lectured in this area.       
 
Jackie Ewers (WA) has been teaching for the past 28 years, she has a TTC Palmerston North NZ, Grad. Dip Special Ed Mt Lawley, Performance Diploma Singing ABRSM, Orff Schulwerk Level 4, Senior Teacher 2 WA Dept.Ed. and Training. She is currently working towards a Cert IV in Work PlaceTraining and Assessment.
 
Audrey Fine (Vic) started her career in music busking with Gary King and Tim Tyler (aka Mr P.P.) at the Lygon Street Fiesta in the early 1980s. From there, Audrey and Gary, together with friend and mentor Christoph Maubach, formed Shenanigans. Audrey was very involved with VOSA (including stints as Treasurer and President) until the early  90s. Audrey is currently teaching at Mount Scopus Memorial College (the school she was a student at from P-12!!), taking general music and  Jewish Music  from 3 year old kinder to grade 5.
 
John Handley (Vic) has been teaching classroom music for the past 15 years.  He has been attending Orff and Kodaly training, conferences and events for most of this time.  Currently he is completing his Orff level III at the San Francisco School in San Francisco.  He has been the Treasurer of VOSA for the past two years, and has a keen interest in music technology, in particular, the use of Sibelius and Groovy Music in an Orff setting.

Since completing a Bachelor of Music at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and a Graduate Certificate in Music Technology from University of Newcastle, Karen Henderson has had vast experience in music education from preschool to tertiary level. In 1990, drawing on her background in music teaching, performance and recording she formed Binary Designs, a Brisbane-based company specialising in linking music and technology.
 

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, experienced entertainer and inspirational teacher, Mike Jackson (Vic) works at enthusing and empowering people of all ages in music making. www.mikejackson.com.au
 
Mark Leehy and Kevin O Mara (Vic) are directors of, and occasional writers for, Bushfire Press, the Home of Cool Cats. They have also been classroom teachers, music teachers, music consultants and advisers, and professional song & dance men.
 
Heather Libeau-Dow (NZ) lectures in Primary Curriculum Music and Professional Studies at the College of Education, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is also the supervisor of the Christchurch School of Music Choral Department; and teaches singing privately. Her on-going quest for effective music education has led her to Melbourne to complete Level One and Two Orff Schulwerk and to continue research aimed at improving the quality of teacher training and music programmes implemented in the primary classroom.
 
Christine Masters specialises in teaching developmental music and piano to young children. She has taught at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and has many years experience teaching music in schools. Christine has produced the CD and DVD  Music Makes Me Move .
 
Clare McCormack (NZ) is an enthusiastic music educator, involved with ONZA (Orff NZ Aotearoa). She has a private Suzuki piano studio, teaches marimba and music in schools and runs Orff workshops for teachers and children throughout NZ.      
 
Heather McLaughlin (Vic) has taught music for many years, mainly in Melbourne. Her special interests are early childhood, family music, marimbas and recorders, and community music. She has taught in all Australian states and also in New Zealand, Canada, USA, South Africa, Norway, and in various international schools in Japan, where she has lived for five years.
 
Dr Ros McMillan (Vic) was Head of Music Education in the University of Melbourne until she retired in 2004. She now writes school music texts which are widely used throughout Australia and New Zealand.            
 
Heather Monro is the Australian Director of Kids Music Company and is a qualified and highly experienced kindergarten teacher, presently holding the position of head teacher at Pakenham Heights Kindergarten and works with intermediate and senior students at the Dandenong Valley School.  She recently completed a post grad certificate in Orff Music Education and is part of the Kids Music Company giving workshops for teachers in Melbourne and around Australia.  Her passion for music with young children is to see them enjoy and learn through song, dance, movement and body percussion. Presenting with, Wendy Jensen, who has run Kids Music Company (NZ) for the last 17 years.  About 350 children aged 1-10 attend weekly sessions of music. Wendy is a past primary school music specialists who now writes, records and workshops music for teaching purposes.  She has run countless workshops for parents, teachers and teacher training institutions in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and the UK.  Kids Music Company CDs have won international acclaim in the United Kingdom s Practical Preschool Awards for the last 4 years running.    
 
Naser Nazar was born in 1962, in Tehran .He participated in Orff music courses in 1974-1977. Since 1978, studied Classical Western Music, continued playing the piano, the clarinet and singing in choirs. In 1986, he founded a private school of music, created Childrens  Music Web site (www.pars-music). He participated at AOSA conference in 2004 -2005 and 2006 as presenter.
 
Anne Power lectures at the University of Western Sydney. She is a director of the Professional Teachers Council, NSW, a member of the executive of the NSW Orff Schulwerk and Vice Chair of ASME NSW.
 
Biddy Seymour currently teaches at a number of special schools in Brisbane, having also had experience in teaching from Early Childhood to Tertiary levels. She is currently president of both QOSA and ANCOS.
 
Sibelius sessions (offered in sponsorship of MOSAIC) -

Katie Wardrobe, BMUS (Hons), works part-time as an Education and Support Specialist for Sibelius Australia.  She is also an approved Sibelius Training Partner, providing professional development training and advice in music technology for educators and musicians.

James Humberstone, who is Sibelius’ Director of Applications and Education and Composer-in-Residence at MLC School in Sydney. He’s also a PhD candidate at UNSW, writing a case study on his childrens’ opera called “Composition for children with pedagogical outcomes”.

Debbie Tait is a primary school teacher in Melbourne’s outer east and is a full time music and art specialist. She has an interest in folk and world music and was a member of the Balkan folk dance group ‘Skips’ for a number of years, performing with them and leading dance workshops at music festivals around Australia. 
 
Jan Thorp is doing this as part of her Research Masters MA (Hons) at the University of Western Sydney. With 36 years music teaching experience her passion is to effectively bring music within the grasp of ordinary people.