Queensland teacher brings quality music education to country kids

Deniz Uzgun

By Deniz Uzgun
Published June 20, 2019

There's music in every child and a teacher’s job is to find it and nurture it, the late American pianist Frances Clark once said.

With his program, Dr James Cuskelly aims to give country kids the same opportunities to access quality music lessons as their city peers.

Today those sentiments continue to hold true for Dr James Cuskelly, a celebrated music educator at St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ ...

This story appeared in the June 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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