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Scott Davie is known to audiences as both a soloist and chamber musician. He has given concerts throughout Australia, and his performances and recordings have been broadcast on radio and television. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, he later furthered his studies in London. As a musicologist, Scott is well known to Sydney audiences through his frequent pre-concert talks for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and for other organisations.

Scott’s doctoral study of the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff and his academic research have resulted in performances of the composer’s works in Europe, where he has also given lectures and interviews. In 2012, he gave the Australian première of the original version of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto (1926) to capacity audiences at the Sydney Opera House with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony.

For over a decade, Scott has developed a focus on the study of music history and philosophy. He frequently lecturers on a range of topics for young students in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Open Academy program, where he is able to share his passion for learning.

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Greg has deep experience in policy development having spent over 15 years in policy and strategy roles, including managing a small policy unit in the NSW Government and advising a former Minister. He is now an independent consultant who specialises in facilitation and advising organisations on strategy , cultural change and organisational development. He is particularly interested in collaboration and how to get people to work together effectively and has worked extensively with alliances in large public infrastructure projects.

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Francesca Zorcolo-Costa Davis gained her Bachelor of Social Science and Policy from the University of NSW, and her Master of Teaching from the University of Sydney. She is a native speaker of Italian who studied at Teacher’s College in Italy. She began tutoring for the W.E.A., Sydney, in March 1997, in addition to teaching at Co.As.It. adult courses, local community colleges and the UNSW Institute of Languages. She has also worked in for various Independent schools, MLC, the Italian Bilingual School (IBS), and DET Primary Schools. She regularly enhances her language teaching skills and strategies through annual in-services, workshops or special training offered by Universities, The Institute of Culture and the DET.

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Marele Day is the author of four crime novels, The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender, The Case of the Chinese Boxes, The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado, The Disappearances of Madalena Grimaldi, a collection of crime-comedy stories, Mavis Levack, PI, and editor of How to Write Crime. Other novels include the internationally acclaimed Lambs of God; Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain’s Wife, and her latest, The Sea Bed. Marele has won several awards including the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement, 2008.

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Carmen De Armas has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of New South Wales. She also has a post graduate diploma in Education from the University of Western Sydney and has completed further post-graduate studies at the Australian Catholic University. Carmen has taught Spanish as a second language in secondary and tertiary institutions for many years.

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Louise began work as a teacher of the deaf and of language disordered children. After her PhD she completed an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Linguistics for 3 years at Macquarie University. She then lectured in Linguistics at the University of Sydney for a further 3 years. Currently, Louise is a Teacher of the Deaf in a bilingual school for deaf children. As well as these full time jobs, Louise has acted as an expert consultant to numerous community and government organisations, worked as an Auslan-English interpreter, and conducted workshops for parents, teachers and interpreters around Australia on language acquisition and linguistics.

Louise has a BA(Hons) majoring in Linguistics, a Graduate Diploma of Education (Primary), a Diploma of Interpreting (Auslan-English), a Masters in Special Education (Deafness), and a PhD on Language Acquisition. Louise loves learning and especially learning languages. After arriving at University a monolingual, she has added Auslan, Spanish and French to her languages, and is currently attempting to learn Mandarin, which is easily the hardest thing she has had to learn in her life.

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Dr. Daniele de Jesus graduated from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economic Science. Following this, she completed a Master degree in urban and Regional Planning at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a PhD in Economics at UFF, where she is a Lecturer level C at the School of Administration and Accounting.

Daniele is a qualified Lecturer of Administration with 10 years of experience, teaching both in undergraduate and postgraduate programs, both face to face and distance learning. Relevant experience in leading research groups, project team, advising students as well as a solid experience in consulting at large and small organizations and in evaluating and coordinating projects for governments and non government organisations.

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Mark de Vitis is a doctoral candidate at the University of Sydney working on theories of identity and representation in the Early Modern period. Other research interests include the genre of portraiture in the Western tradition, and costume, dress and the body. In 2010 in addition to his work with the University Preparation Course, he will teach at the National Art School and in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney.

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Alison a highly experienced teacher of German and former Head of Languages. Alison has worked as a K-12 Languages consultant with the NSW Association of Independent Schools and has been involved in syllabus and HSC exam development with NESA.

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Poppy Dean. Tutor of CCE