Forte School of Music Macarthur

 

Keyboard Teachers

Joanne Archer - Lara Barazi - Karen Chrupalo - Reet Lantson
Jessica Lawless - Hannalé Lombard - Ranjani Peiris - BJ Schell - Laura Swallow

Joanne Archer

Joanne is also a talented pianist and has an amazing singing voice. Joanne has achieved high grades in piano and is also a qualified Early Childhood and Special Needs teacher.

Joanne has extensive experience with young children from working in local preschools. Joanne now utilizes her love of music and children by teaching most of our Jungle Music and Music is Fun classes. Her classes are always lots of fun and very entertaining for all our little friends.

Joanne is also teaching private keyboard lessons to older students for this term and is a very valuable member of our team at Forte.

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Lara Barazi

Lara teaches both piano and vocal  lessons at Forte Macarthur. Lara has completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Music) at Macquarie University and is now studying for her Honors Degree in Contemporary Voice.

Lara has worked with Nadia Piave as an Intern in vocal teaching and also works at Mount St Joseph High School as a Private singing tutor.

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Karen Chrupalo

Karen is an experienced keyboard teacher and teaches a number of our young keyboard classes. Karen has had a lot of experience with young children, having 6 of her own, and has spent the last 20 years working in a local High School. Karen is currently the Office Manager of Elderslie Public School.

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Reet Lantson

Reet  is an experienced pianist (8 years) and singer (13 years). Reet has studied Opera at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and can also play the piano accordian.

Reet has a passion for languages and can speak 6 different languages including Estonian, English, Finnish, Russian, German and Spanish.

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Jessica Lawless

Jessica is our newest keyboard teacher. Jessica is a very talented musician who is quite versatile. She not only plays piano and violin, but also dabbles in guitar and bassoon as well.

Jessica is a member of the Fisher's Ghost Youth Orchestra and will be teaching private piano students this year at Forte.

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Hannalé Lombard

 Hannalé  is teaching both keyboard and brass at Forte. Hannalé has completed a Bachelor of Music Honours degree at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 2002, majoring in French Horn with piano as her second instrument.

Hannalé has had experience teaching brass, piano, recorder and class music. She has also conducted various orchestras including the Durbanville High School Band, Rhenish Primary School Orchestra and the Franschhoek Boy's Brigade band.

Hannalé has performed with the Stellenbosch Horn Quartet, the Cape Town Concert Brass Band, the Cape Town Philharmonica Orchestra and the Hugo Lambrechts Youth Orchestra. Since moving to Australia at the beginning of the year, Hannalé has become a member of the Campbelltown Camden District Band.

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Ranjani Peiris

Miss Ranjani is our highly qualified private keyboard/piano teacher. Ranjani holds a  Piano Teacher’s Diploma (L.R.S.M.) from the Royal Schools of Music London and a Piano Teacher’s Diploma (L.T.C.L.) from the Trinity College of Music London. Ranjani has also held the position of Examiner of Music (Piano and Theory) for the Institute of Western Music and Speech, Sri Lanka.

Ranjani teaches most of our private piano students on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and we are very fortunate to have such a qualified keyboard teacher at Forte Macarthur. Ranjani teaches from our Forte courses as well as from the AMEB exam syllabus.

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BJ Schell

BJ is one of our most energetic keyboard teachers. BJ has spent 6 years at the Conservatorium High School and is now studying for a Business degree at Swinburne University as well as studying for his pilots licence.

BJ is both an accomplished piano and saxophone player, and teaches both  keyboard classes and saxophone students.

BJ has a passion not only for music but for tea and shoes.

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Laura Swallow

Laura is multi-talented teaching Jungle Music, Music is Fun, Flute, Clarinet and Piano, as well as being a member of our Student Support team. Laura is an accomplished Flautist having completed her Eighth grade AMEB flute exam with Honors. Laura is currently studying for a Bachelor of  Music and a Bachelor of Education at UNSW.

Laura has spent 5 years in the State Schools Symphonic Wind Ensemble and has also spent a year as the Lead Flautist in the UNSW Orchestra. Laura is currently studying guitar, clarinet, piano, trumpet and percussion for her degree. Laura has also had experience playing in the Handbell Ensemble at UNSW and currently studies under the tutelage of Prue Page.

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