Katherine Smith MMus, BMus (Hons), Grad.Dip.Ed. (UWA), Cert. Dalcroze (DEIEB), Australian Kodály Certificate (KMEIA)
Katherine Smith holds a Master of Music in Performance from the School of Music at the University of Western Australia, the Dalcroze Certificate (DEIEB) and the Australian Kodály Certificate (Primary). Katherine is the Music specialist at Riva Primary, a public Inclusive Education school in Perth. Here she teaches music to children in Pre Primary to Year 6 from diverse cultural backgrounds and with a range of special education needs in a one-school, fully inclusive model. Katherine has also worked for the WA Instrumental Music Schools Service, in early childhood music settings including the University of Western Australia Junior Music School, as a sessional academic in Music Education for Edith Cowan University, and as freelance orchestral and chamber music clarinettist, performing with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles in Perth. She is the immediate past national president of Dalcroze Australia. Katherine is passionate about movement and singing in primary school, the role of embodied learning in music education, and inclusive practice.