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Horsti Baltes was educated in Germany at the Musik hoch schule Des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken and the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. He has extensive experience as a solo and chamber music performer, having toured in Europe, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. He has been teaching guitar for over 30 years and joined the staff at the Wollongong Conservatorium in 2001. |
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Jens Hoppe has a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium. He has worked as a free-lance guitarist since 1987 playing jazz, blues, pop, latin, R&B, funk and contemporary music. He has performed extensively in Australia and has toured Germany. 
He has been teaching guitar for 25 years and joined the staff at the Wollongong Conservatorium in 2002. |
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Nigel Jones holds a Diploma of Applied Science from Wollongong University and is a former student of the Wollongong Conservatorium, going on to further performance studies in Classical Guitar at the Australian Institute of Music, Sydney. Upon completing his studies he went on to teach for a number of years at the Australian Institute of Music and has given recitals in France, the UK and the USA. Nigel joined the staff at the Wollongong Conservatorium in 2008. |
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Ann Lehmann (MCMT, BCA, A.Mus.A) is an accomplished musician and registered music therapist with a passion for creativity and connecting through music. Ann has taught classical guitar at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music for fifteen years, working within the AMEB system. She has had considerable success in encouraging students to develop improvisation skills and song writing. She also plays in folk groups and coordinates the Illawarra Folk Festival Summer School. |
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John Spence was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. He began playing the piano intuitively at 5 years of age and started composing songs at the age of 9, before composing instrumental music in his early years of high school. John studied composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and from 1994 he worked as a freelance composer, arranger, teacher as well as a performer on piano and classical guitar. 
John Spence's music is becoming increasingly in demand by soloists and ensembles. In 2003 his composition ‘Waltzing the Boiling Billy’ for flute ensemble, cello and wood block was premiered in Los Angeles by the Wollongong Conservatorium Senior Flute Ensemble. John is currently completing a research masters at the University of Wollongong. |
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