Dr Judith Brown

Position: Senior Lecturer, Head of Program - Theatre
Email: j.brown@cqu.edu.au
Phone: 07 4940 7813
Qualifications: EdD CQU, MAA CQU, Hons B Mus Adelaide, Dip Ed UQ, LMusA, AMusA.

Dr Judith Brown is a graduate of the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, South Australia where she majored in piano performance, and also CQUniversity in the area of arts administration and education. She regularly lectures in piano, studio teaching methods, music theory, aural musicianship, theatre history, and music history. Judith works with all the undergraduate students in music theatre song interpretation and performance, and gives regular public lecture recitals on a wide range of topics and musical genres.

As a pianist, Judith has performed with some of Australia's leading classical musicians including Gerald English, Geoffrey Collins, Mark Gasser, Garrick Jones, Kim Kirkman and Jason Redman. She is also an accomplished performer of music theatre and cabaret genres having performed in cabaret with Nancye Hayes (Australia) and Peter Saide (Jersey Boys, Las Vegas). She also had a performance role in the acclaimed Australian film Breaker Morant where she accompanied the English actor Edward Woodward during the film. Building on this creative practice, her doctoral thesis used autoethnography to examine the experience of flow in collaborative music performance as a piano accompanist.

As Head of Theatre, Judith oversees the CQCM theatre performance program, including the two fully-staged musicals each year, as well as the award-winning Choices Applied Theatre Project which has been running for over 14 years. In 2009 she was the recipient of the CQUniversity Vice–Chancellor’s Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2010 she received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for outstanding contributions to student learning. In 2010, she was the consulting editor for the Australian Music Examinations Board Series 3 Piano for Leisure publications. Her research interests include tertiary music education and collaborative music performance and she continues to publish internationally and nationally in these areas.