Mandy Carver is Director of Music for three diocesan schools in Grahamstown, South Africa.  Her school work involves her with students between the ages of 10 – 18.  With experience teaching in South Africa, UK and Uganda, she has focused on world music in the classroom and the inclusion of informally learned musical styles in the formal environment of school.   Believing that the African continent has got it right insofar as humans can’t resist making music together (and having fun at the same time), her teaching philosophy has gleaned much from African principles.  Her work with marimbas includes workshops for teachers and children in SA and UK and publications of arrangements.  Apart from working with young learners, Mandy is presently involved in teacher education at Rhodes University. 

Marco Fanti (1976) is professor of choral music at Bologna University, Music Department. He is Conductor of Coro Alma Musica and Coro Athena. His fields of research are children choral music and eighteenth-century music, in particular sacred choral music. He was head of strings and primo violino di spalla of the “Collegium Musicum Almae Matris-Orchestra of the University of Bologna” from 1999 to 2005 and has played whit conductor such as R Chailly, D.Renzetti, D.Gatti, A Caprioli, P. Gelmini, G. Gelmetti, R. Gandolfi. He teaches history of music at the University “Primo Levi” of Bologna. He has a course of musical education for childhood at Mariele Ventre foundation towards Bologna’s Civic Theatre, Teatro Comunale. He is Literature professor at public high school. He is the curator and co-editor of the catalogue of the exhibition “Monete sonanti”, (about musical iconography in Bolognese numismatic collections), International Museum of Music, Bologna.

Sue Lane is currently teaching Music and Dance Education at the University of Newcastle, NSW, particularly working with Education undergraduates preparing to teach within the Primary School. In her postgraduate studies, Sue is researching creative processes as educational tools, promoting the value of Creative Arts in Education. For many years Sue has worked in several Central Coast Primary schools as a Music Specialist.  She has also worked as a conductor of children and adult choirs on the Central Coast and has been involved in numerous choral and performance events.
Sue is very committed to sharing her passion for creative teaching with her students. She has been involved with the Orff Schulwerk Association of NSW as Vice President for several years, and is currently working on the Bulletin committee.

Dr. Pamela Stover is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at the School of Music, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA).  She is a leading scholar of the Orff-Schulwerk with summer study at the Orff Institute (Salzburg, Austria), earning the Orff Mastery Certificate (University of St. Thomas, USA) and doing grant-funded research at the Orff Zentrum-München (Germany). Dr. Stover is an elementary methods and choral specialist and gives workshops on classroom management, assessment, integrating music across the curriculum, composition and improvisation, part-singing, children’s choir, children’s literature incorporating music, meeting national/state standards, music literacy, middle school classroom music, music for early childhood and Orff and Kodaly teaching processes. She is a frequent clinician at MENC (Music Education National Conference-USA), ACDA (the American Choral Directors Association) and AOSA (the American Orff-Schulwerk Association) conferences.  Her historical research concerning the Orff-Schulwerk has been showcased in the United States, Canada, Germany, England and Italy.