Please click on any name from the below list to view the complete staff member biographies.

Director Associate Professor Melville Waters, MMusAdel BMus(Hons)ElderCon BAAdel DipEdAdel SMIMT

Registrar and Deputy to the Director Lisa Gartlan-Betinsky, BALaTrobe DipEdLaTrobe CertIVITRMIT

Head of Department - Sunbury, Jennifer Turner, MEdRMIT BEd(Mus)Melb GradDipArtsMusVCA CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU

Manager - Courses and Programs Rachael Jarvis, BMusANU DipEdCan GradDipEdAdminMelb MEdMelb

Heads of Vocal Studies

Janette Kearns, BMusAdel DSCM LMusA
Barbara Sambell, BAMonash TSTC

Vocal Studies Staff

Susan Breen Clarke, BMusVicMelbaCon DipOpera&StagecraftVCA AMusA
Ruth Guthrie, BMusVicMelbaCon LMusA
Ian Lowe, BMusVicMelbaCon DipTeachMelb
Peter Mander, BMusEdMelb AMusA
Margaret Nisbett MBE

Heads of Piano Studies
Dr Mikhail Solovei, MMusGorky PhDMoscow
Dr Elyane Laussade, DMusArtsRutgersUniv MMusJulliard BMusHouston

Piano Studies Staff
Thomas Griffiths, BMus(Hons) RNCM BACanterbury LRSM LTCL
Dr Micheal Giddens, PhDMelb MEdMelb BMusMelb LicDalcrozeInstGeneva DipWisconsin
Rosa Scaffidi, BMusVicMelbaCon LMusA AMusA FTCL
Helen Qian Zhang, BMusMelb BComMelb MMusMelb LMusA AMusA

Music Studies Staff
Josephine Agostinelli, BMusVicMelbaCon AMusA
Greg Aaronson, BAMonash DipMusVU GradDipEdLaTrobe CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Robert Bell, BA(Hons)LaTrobe
David Briggs, AssocDipProfRecStudiosSurrey
Brigid Burke, MMusMelb AMusA
Lorenzo Capitanio, BMusVicMelbaCon BA(Hons)LaTrobe CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Catherine Clarke-Jones, BMusACU AMusA GradDipCompMelb
Mary Clements, BMusMelb BAMonash DipEdMonash AMusA
Andrew Close, MMus(Perf)ElderCon BMus(Cond)Flinders St BMusAdel GradDipEdAdel
Blair Edgar OAM, BEdMelb TPTCMelb
Gabriel Federow, BacPhilLetStrasbourg DipMusEdKodaly Institute
Jenny Game-Lopata, MAMonash BA(Hons)LaTrobe BAVCA CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Kay Gilmour, BMusEdMelb BAMelb MEdRMIT
Dr Micheal Giddens, PhDMelb MEdMelb BMusMelb
LicDalcrozeInstGeneva DipWisconsin
Neil Goudge, BASCU GradDipMusTechSAE CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Allison Harrigan, MMusQld BMus(Hons)Melb
Peter Hurley, BMusVicMelbaCon AYMF (PnoTchg) LYMF (Electone&Fund’ls)
Adam Hutterer, BEdMelb Grad DipMusTechLaTrobe CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Rachael Jarvis, BMusANU DipEdCan GradDipEdAdmin(Melb) MEd(Melb)
Sylvie Leprohon, BMus HochschulabschlussprüfungFreiburg
Peter Mander, BMusEdMelb AMusA
Jeannie Marsh, BMusEdMelb AssocDipOpera&MusTheatreVCA
Miriam Morris
Russell Pearson, AssocDipGraphArtVU AdvCertGraphDesignWMIT
Danielle Rossi, Degree in Modern and Foreign Languages and
LiteraturesUniversità Statale di Milano
Catrina Seiffert, BA(Mus)VCA BA(Hons)LaTrobe
Dean Sky-Lucas, BMusNewcastle AMusA
William Smith, MAMelb DipEdMelb LMusA
Priscilla Taylor, BAMelb GradDipMusVCA AMusA TSTC
Gordon Troup, MScLond DScMelb
Andrew Wailes, BAMonash CertAppMus(Orch&ChoirCond)Monash

Head of Instrumental Studies
Sylvie Leprohon, BMusHochschulabschlussprüfungFreiburg

Instrumental Studies Staff
Brigid Burke, MMusMelb AMusA
Lorenzo Capitanio, BMusVicMelbaCon BA(Hons)Latrobe CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU
Peter Draper, LMusA STCA (Pri)
Peter Hurley, BMusVicMelbaCon AYMF (PnoTchg) LYMF (Electone&Fund’ls)
Ken Murray, MMusMelb BMus(Hons)Melb
John Noble, BOccThLincoln
Ivana Tomášková-Nebeský, PhDPrague BMusMoscow
Dennis Vaughan, BScVU-Wellington BACanterbury DipEd LTCLLondon
Paul Williams, BMusVicMelbaCon LTCL

Performance Studies Staff – Sunbury
Curtis Baylis, BAMonash BMusEdMelb
Tony Floyd, BEdMelb
Simon Patterson, AssocDipMeritJazzStudiesNSWCon
Greg Smith, MMusVCA BMusVCA DipTeachInstCatholicEd
Jonathan Zion, BMusVCA CertIVAsst&WkpceTrngVU

Official Accompanists
Thomas Griffiths, BMus(Hons)RNCM BACanterbury LRSM LTCL
Jane Hammond, BAMusVCA GradDipArtsMusVCA
Amanda Hodder, BMusTas
David McNicol, BMusVicMelbaCon LMusA
Lachlan Redd, BMus(Hons)InstArts Mmus(Piano)ManSchoolMus
Rosa Scaffidi, BMusVicMelbaCon LMusA AMusA FTCL