Meet Our New Instrumental Music Tutors

Ms Louise King

Louise will be teaching cello and coaching the Senior Strings Ensemble at Pacific this year. With over 25 years teaching experience in many fields – classroom music, instrumental music lessons, tertiary level tuition, workshops, community music, special needs education, school presentations and performance outreach projects in England, Egypt, Hong Kong and Australia, Louise has the experience to empower, motivate and encourage students whilst they learn music. As a Visiting Teaching Artist to national music conservatoriums, regional communities and tertiary level institutions, Louise has successfully spread the joy of classical music and shared creative ways to plan practice and musical goals to motivated students.

Louise teaches cello and chamber music at the Young Conservatorium in Brisbane and is director of Cello Orchestras and Chamber Music at St Peters Lutheran College Brisbane. She runs a busy private teaching studio on the Sunshine Coast and community programs that engage youth and adult learners in classical music plus the Dreaming BIG concert series. She also performs Australia wide in music festivals as a soloist and chamber music partner.

Mr Adam Poppett

Adam has a passion for music and is also the percussion tutor at Good Shepherd Lutheran College in Noosa. Adam started playing organ and classical piano at age seven and studied this for several years, playing in numerous eisteddfods and winning many awards. At the age of eleven, he started learning percussion at school to try something different. This turned out to be something he loved and was really good at. Adam was drafted into the high school concert band and played ancillary percussion.

Upon starting high school, he moved into playing tympani percussion. By Year 10, Adam was the full time drummer in the high school concert band. During his time in the concert band, Adam was lucky enough to travel and play in many different areas throughout South East Queensland. The band went on many tours and was lucky enough to play with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane for a gala evening, a performance of a lifetime!

Adam has also spent time playing and performing with the Sunshine Coast Youth Orchestra and has been a drummer in different bands on the coast, performing professionally on a weekly basis playing many different genres ranging from hard rock/punk through to folk and blues/jazz.

Mr Adrian King, Head of Instrumental Music