Christine has a Masters degree in education and a Conservatorium Diploma of Music.
She began her career more than thirty years ago as a high school music teacher. She lives in Hobart and has 4 grown up children. It was as a young mother that her interest was drawn to the early childhood area. She combined teaching in primary schools with running her own music studio teaching piano and singing as well as Kindermusik programs for children from birth to 7 years of age.
It was this work with very young children and the realisation of the importance of perceptual motor development that led her to Gymbaroo. She now teaches at her Gymbaroo Centre in Hobart for 2 days per week and for the rest of the week she teaches music and works as a Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania for Associate Professor Margaret Barrett. This research is a longitudinal study of the development of musical identity in children from 18 months of age. It has been funded with a $200,000 grant from the Australian Research Council.
