Teaching students aged 7 to 27

Principal Singing Teacher/Manager

If you become an Amaranth student, Allison is the teacher with whom you will have the most contact. She is the school's singing teacher. She will work with you in all your lessons, and prepare all your lesson plans. Allison also leads most of Amaranth's workshops and concerts, and she directs our annual production.

Qualifications & Experience

She is a fully-trained singing teacher who over the past nine years has:

• Taught singing in both metropolitan and regional areas of South Australia;
• Worked as a Singing Teacher, Administrator and Manager at Adelaide-based Singing Studios;
• Formed and directed a choir for adult, amateur singers;
• Worked as a tutor at a university residential college, and;
• Taught After School Italian Language and Culture classes at St. Joseph's Memorial School.

Allison is an an experienced performer who, in the 2001 Adelaide Eisteddfods, won first and second prize for French and English Art Song categories respectively. She performs regularly with distinguished Russian guitarist and fellow Amaranth teacher, Alexei Filinkov at events such as:

• The Art Gallery of South Australia's Benjamin Britten Affair (2001);
• The University of Adelaide's Celebration of the 700th Anniversary of Dante's La Divina Commedia (2000);
• The Little House - A Recital of Brazilian and English Folk Song in the Adelaide Fringe Festival (2000).

Allison has stage experience in theatre, opera and musical theatre including roles:

• The Singer, 'Look Back in Anger', Red Chilli Theatre (May 2006);
• Rosie Probert, Mrs Dai Bread 2, Mrs Willy Nilly, Third Woman, 'Under Milk Wood: A Play For Voices', Red Chilli Theatre (April 2005);
• Aldonza, 'Man of La Mancha', Marie Clark Musical Theatre (October 2004);
• Elizabeth Bennet, 'Pride and Prejudice', Marie Clark Musical Theatre (October 2003);
• Tuptim, 'The King and I', Marie Clark Musical Theatre (May/June 2003), and;
• Hodel 'Fiddler On The Roof', Marie Clark Musical Theatre (June 2002).

Allison has sung with choirs including Procanto (1995 - 8) and the Monteverdi Singers (2001).

Professional Affiliations:

Allison is a member of:

• The Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS).