Michaela Ivory

Michaela is a passionate and engaging music teacher who has worked in a number of roles including as a member of the Teaching Artist team for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s Crescendo Program with whom they were awarded the APRA AMCOS National Art Music Award for Excellence in Music Education in 2019.

Since 2021, she has worked as Music Specialist at Challis Community Primary School and more recently, Music and Performing Arts Specialist at Queens Park Primary School, where she has been for the last couple of years. She completed her Australian Kodaly Certificate Primary Level 1 in 2021 and also holds her Level 1, 2 and 3 Orff-Schulwerk Certifications as well as her First Steps in Music Certification.

Michaela has a keen interest in music education in the early childhood years, since having three young children of her own, and enjoys sharing this with the wider community through her blog, classes, and workshops as “The Musical Mum”. Michaela is passionate about sharing the benefits and importance of music education in the early years and hopes to inspire other educators to be creative, meaningful, authentic and playful in their music lessons with their younger students.