Musical Director - Anne M Credlin - Cranbourne Chorale

Musical Director - Anne M Credlin

Musical Director - Anne M Credlin - Cranbourne Chorale

Ms Anne M. Credlin B.Mus., M.Ed., A.Mus.A

Australian born and educated, but with a Scots/Irish background, Anne graduated in Music from the University of Melbourne, later obtaining her Masters degree in Education from Monash University. She intends this year to finally complete the PhD on which she seems to have been working in fits and starts, for ever!

Anne has taught extensively in Government secondary colleges, having held senior Music positions in several colleges, notably at Ringwood Secondary College for some seventeen years. She has also held a variety of senior administrative positions in secondary colleges.

Anne retired from secondary teaching on her appointment as Musical Director of the Australian Welsh Male Choir, but as she missed working with young people, returned to teaching as a part-time Music specialist, this time in a primary school. She can claim to have taught at every level from Prep. to VCE. She has now retired from teaching - again!

She has been actively involved for many years in the direction of adult, community choirs, including the Yarra Valley Singers, the Yallourn Madrigal Singers and the Latrobe Chorale (Gippsland). Anne was fortunate in having received tuition in conducting from the late Robert Rosen, and has directed and conducted choral and orchestral performances of works such as Gloria by Vivaldi, Handel's Messiah and the Requiem by Fauré.

She is a member of the Committee of ACCET (Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training), and a member of the examining panel (pianoforte and singing) for Victoria, of ANZCA (Australian and New Zealand Cultural Arts Ltd.).

Anne commenced as Musical Director of Cranbourne Chorale in January 2008.

On an entirely different note, she has recently been appointed a Justice of the Peace for Victoria!