Alison Beckett

Having initially dreamt of finding her niche somewhere in composing, ensemble playing and theatre, Alison finally admitted some years into her career that she loves teaching, and it is intrinsic to her happiness as a musician. Consequently she has continued teaching, composing, conducting and playing throughout her life.

She has lived for almost 20 years in the U.K., and the last 13 have been principally in schools in the primary sector in London. This has been balanced with keeping abreast of secondary curricula through private teaching and tutoring, directing ensembles in neighbouring secondary schools, and more recently, directly in classrooms.

Alison has also continued to compose and perform throughout this time, and will indeed continue to do so alongside teaching, upon repatriation to Australia. She is eager to immerse herself into music education across the age-ranges in Australia, and continue her journey as a musician and music educator in the country that gave her such a generous portion of her own music education.

While in the UK, Alison gained experience in music teaching positions from private music tutoring up to a position as head of music, which required her to perform a variety of tasks such as writing and delivering music curriculum, composing and directing school performances, managing peripatetic staff, managing students and instruments and organising ensembles and trips just to outline a few! Alison is as qualified a music teacher as there is, and will make any student and/or their ensemble shine.