About
Music in Me Summit presenter
Carla Trott is a distinguished classroom music specialist, recognised for her commitment to aural-based, sequential music education. A passionate advocate for accessible music learning, she co-founded the Emerging Music Teachers Network in 2015, which continues to support early-career educators almost a decade later. With a teaching career spanning diverse educational contexts, Carla has earned acclaim across Australia and internationally for her innovative approach to music pedagogy, teaching educators in accredited Kodály courses both locally and abroad.
She is currently the Program Leader and Senior Lecturer of Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (The University of Sydney) where she works with pre-service teachers at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She has also started her PhD where she is researching the impact of an aural-based music program on kindergarten student’s oracy skills, particularly those who come from backgrounds of English as an Additional Language and/or Dialect (EAL/D).
Carla holds a BMus (Perf) degree from the Queensland Conservatorium, a GradDip (SecEd) from Griffith University and a MEd (Gifted Ed) from UNSW. She has an Australian Kodály Certificate in Secondary Education and is an accredited lecturer of the Australian Kodály Certificate.
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