Over the past 25 years I have been fortunate and proud to teach harmony and counterpoint, orchestration and twentieth century music to hundreds (thousands?) of very talented music students.

In particular, I have supervised many outstanding compositon students. Here are some of them (in alphabetical order):

Postgraduate Students
Katy ABBOTT (MMus, PhD 2007) - freelance composer, lives in Melbourne
Opeloge AH SAM (MMus) - composer and conductor, lives and works in Auckland NZ
Lindsay BRUNDSON (MMus)
Brigid BURKE (MMus) - composer, performer and teacher, lives in Melbourne
Robert CASTEELS (PhD) 2004 - eminent composer, conductor lives in Singapore
Tim DAVIES (MMus) - film, TV and big band composer (Grammy nominee), lives in Los Angeles
Chris DENCH (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer
Eve DUNCAN (MMus) - composer and teacher, lives in Melbourne
Mark ELLIOTT (MMus) - currently completing PhD at the VCA
Nirmali FENN (MMus) - currently completing PhD at Oxford University
Mary FINSTERER (MMus, PhD) - teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium, lives in Bowral, NSW
Linden GREATWOOD (MMus)
Stuart GREENBAUM (MMus, PhD) - Head of Composition at the University of Melbourne
BB & Stuart Greenbaum BB and Stuart, Port Fairy 2004

Martin GREET (PhD) - lectures at the University of Melbourne
Jesmond GRIXTI (MMus, PhD) - composer and teacher, lives in Nairobi
Matthew HINDSON (MMus) - composer and Lecturer at University of Sydney and director of the Aurora Festival
David HIRST (PhD) - Lecturer at the University of Melbourne
William HUGHES (PhD)
Dominic KARSKI (PhD) - currently completing PhD, lives in Poland
Ada Nga-ting LAI (PhD) - composer and teacher, lives in Hong Kong
Graham LLOYD (MMus) - former CO of the Defence Force School of Music in Melbourne, now freelance composer, arranger, educator and adjudicator
Philip NUNN (MMus) - freelance composer, lives in London
Estelle PIZER (MMus)
Kevin PURCELL (MMus, PhD) - Professor and Head of Music at the University of Tasmania Conservatorium
Andrian PERTOUT (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer teaches at Melbourne University
BB & Andrian Pertout BB and Andrian, Melbourne 2005

Peter RATNIK (MMus) - arranger, composer, former Director of the Murray Conservatorium, Albury
Haydn REEDER (PhD)
Johanna SELLECK (MMus, PhD) - freelance composer, teaches at Melbourne University
Peter SULLIVAN (MMus) - freelance film and TV composer, arranger, pianist and band director
Imen TANG (MMus) - composer and teacher, lives in Hong Kong
Tony TENACE (MMus) freelance composer, currently completing PhD
Lesleigh THOMPSON (MMus)
Natalie WILLIAMS (MMus) - completing PhD at Indiana University
Julian YU (DMus) - freelance composer, teaches at Melbourne University

ALSO supervised theses by:
Linda KOUVARAS (MMus, PhD) - composer and musicologist, lecturer at Melbourne University
Patricia SHAW (MMus)
Patrick PICKETT (BMus)

BMus students - just a few (if I have forgotten you please let me know)!
Lorenzo ALVARO - completing PhD
Newton ARMSTRONG - teaches at Dartmouth College, USA
Glyn AYRES
Andrew BATTERHAM - freelance composer and teacher
Nicholas BUC - composing for film & TV with Hugh Crosthwaite as 'Composure'
Joanna CANTY
Eleanora CAPRIOLO
Rebecca CHAPMAN - singer, actress, composer www.myspace.com/bekchapman
Simon CHARLES
Angie COFFEY - freelance composer
Johanna CRAVEN - composing for film and TV
Hugh CROSTHWAITE - composing for film & TV with Nic Buc
Robert DAHM
Darren EMERSON
Stefan FRIEDEL
Gavin FRY
David GILD
Joe GOODMAN
Yi Ting GU - lives in Shanghai
Paul HEALY
David HISCOX
Steve HODGSON
Nancy HOSKING
Raelene HOWELL - composer, pianist and director of the Sunwrae Ensemble
Annie HSIEH
Thaddeus HUANG
Shaun JONES
Tom JONES
Barbara KERR
Paul KOPETZ
Gareth de KORTE
Tom KRISTOF
Alan LEE - works for the Victorian Government
Yee Fang LU
Mun Leong LOW
Isaac LO
Sue MANCHOULAS - lives in England
Vaughn McALLY
Kate MIDDLETON
Damian MIZZI
Scott McINTYRE - currently a PhD student at University of Tasmania
Sarah MOORE
Duane MORRISON
Benjamin DE MURASHKIN - member of electronic pop duo Sage
Michelle NELSON
Andrew NEWCOMBE - is a composer and web designer and lives in Oxford, UK
Sonoko NISHIO
Greg OLSEN - now a social worker
Catherine OXWORTH
King Pan NG - lives in Hong Kong
Katherine RAWLINGS
Stephen SCHOLTE
Charles SDRAULIG
Luke SERRANO
Alessandro SERVADEI - now works for Melba Records
Lisa SPEAKMAN
David TALACKO
Daniel TECHANE
John THORN - freelance music director, arranger and composer
David THORNTON - sadly died after a fall in December 2007 (please see photo below 3rd from left.
David's father has posted the following web page http://web.mac.com/lesliethornton)
Demetrio TROMBI
Madeleine TUREWICZ
Adrian VINCENT
Ian VITCHEFF
James WADE - completing MMus at the University of Sydney
Nicholas WILSON
Duncan YARDLEY - recording engineer for the ABC
David YOUNG - freelance composer
Ningyi ZHANG

Private Students
David CHISHOLM - short-listed for the Outstanding Musician Award, Melbourne Prize
Brendan COLBERT - freelance composer. Twice selected for the National Orchestral Composers' School
Julian LANGDON - winner of Development Award, Melbourne Prize
Kate NEAL - awarded 2007 Australia Council Fellowship and founder of the Deadhorse Band
James RUSHFORD - participant, 2007 Cybec Program (MSO)
Mark Wolf - participant, 2008 Cybec Program (MSO)

ACOF and CYBEC
I have also been privileged to mentor many outstanding composers at the
Australian Composers' Orchestral Forum (ACOF):
TSO 2004 - David Chisholm, Alicia Grant, Andrian Pertout, Adeline Wong (Malaysia), Anthony Young (NZ)
TSO 2003 - David Chisholm, Alicia Grant, Padma Newsome, Andrian Pertout, Daniel Salecich, Jane Stanley
WASO 2002 - Damian Barbeler, Freeman McGrath, Chris Watson (NZ), Toby Wren, Mark Zadro
and
CYBEC 21 Composers' Program with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra:
2011 - Joseph Twist, Luke Paulding, Evan Lawson, Chris Williams
2010 - Annie Hsieh, Charles Sdraulig, Amy Bastow, Alex Pozniak
2009 - Elias Constantopedos, Lorenzo Alvaro, Mark Woolf, Benjamin MacDonald
2008 - Paul Castles, Robert Dahm, Nicole Murphy, James Rushford

University of Melbourne Composers' Dinner December 2006

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David Collins (Techo), Antonio Tenace, David Thornton, BB, Charles Sdraulig, Lorenzo Alvaro, Stuart Greenbaum, Stephen Scholte, Paul Healy, Jo Canty, Linda Kouvaras, Kelly Day, Russell Hodges, Scott Sanders, (friend of Emma?), Annie Hsieh, Emma Knight, Andrian Pertout, Thaddeus Huang, Katia Pertout, David Gild, Richard Ward

Barrie Webb - Composers' Workshop 2005

comp class 2

Back Row: Steve Hodgson, Daniel Techane, James Wade, Paul Healy, Lorenzo Alvaro, Thaddeus Huang, Adrian Vincent, Glyn Ayres, Jo Selleck
Mid Row: Tom Kristof, Jo Canty, David Howell, Barrie Webb, Linden Greatwood, Annie Hsieh, Nancy Hosking, Scott Sanders, Andrian Pertout
Sitting: Stuart Greenbaum, BB