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Committee Contacts

Elections to the MSAQ Committee are decided yearly at the AGM. The 2007 MSAQ Committee is as follows:

Chairperson: Huib Schippers
Secretary: Katelyn Barney
Treasurer: Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Committee members
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Peter Freeman
Gavin Carfoot
Catherine Grant
Alicia Maguire

The postal address of the MSAQ is:

MSAQ
C/O- Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre
Griffith University
PO Box 3428
South Bank QLD 4101

Email links for the individual committee members are provided below.

Katelyn Barney
Dr. Katelyn Barney completed her PhD through the School of Music at the University of Queensland researching Indigenous Australian women performing in contemporary music contexts. She currently also lectures at the University of Queensland and the Australian Catholic University and teaches piano privately. Her research interests lie in areas of ethnomusicology, cross-cultural studies in music performance, women's studies and popular music.

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Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
Dr. Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University. She is currently working on an ARC Linkage project called Sound Links, which examines the relationships between community music and formal music education. She also teaches courses in musicology, music history, popular culture, and research methods. Her research interests lie in women's studies, autoethnography, peer learning, and cultural theory.

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Gavin Carfoot
Gavin Carfoot is an Associate Lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium's Gold Coast campus, where he teaches popular music studies, music history and analysis, and music technology. His research interests lie in the broad areas of critical and cultural theory, and their intersections with popular and contemporary musical culture..

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Huib Schippers
Prof. Huib Schippers has performed as sitarist across Europe, India and the United States, having had twenty years of traditional training in Indian classical music. He has held many key management, development, teaching and research positions at Amsterdam Music School, LOKV Netherlands Institute for Arts Education, Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Academy for Music and Dance (Rotterdam). He is currently Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre.

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