Biddy Seymour

We are very excited to pull Biddy out of retirement as one of our elective presenters!

After retiring from teaching Music for many years, mostly in primary or specialised settings, Biddy did a number of creative contracts as a Teaching Artist with The Song Room in various settings. The last one was at Milpera State High School, an English language specialist school for migrant and refugee students in Brisbane, Queensland, where she currently continues to share her passion as a part-time Music Specialist.

Biddy completed the Orff Levels training in both South Africa and Australia, being qualified to teach the Movement and Pedagogy strands of the nationally accredited courses. She has done the inaugural edition of 3 of the Orff Master Practitioner Courses: David Spurgeon’s Dance Course, Richard Gill’s ‘Brown Books’ Course (2014) and Robyn Staveley’s Neuropedagogy Course (2016).

Biddy is a past President of ANCOS (Australian National Council of Orff Schulwerk), a position she held for 6 years, as well as a number of years as their Archivist. She is a past president of QOSA, another committee she was part of for almost 20 years. She has presented at numerous workshops, courses and conferences at state, interstate and national level, as well as in New Zealand.

Now in her semi-retirement, she enjoys being an involved granny and gardening. She keeps very active, dancing a few times a week, including Israeli Dancing which she helps to facilitate. She volunteers teaching ukuleles at the Inala Community Hub and is also part of another community ukulele band, The Sublime Ukelectics.