Jocelyn E Kotchie

Jo’s compositional work has been wide-ranging and has followed the changing landscape of her life from her teenage years onwards. She writes across most genres – from powerful contemporary ballads of love and loss and folk songs which speak of social, cultural and environmental issues to jazz/blues and musical theatre style songs. Her classical composition has often been in response to the needs of her students and as such includes a considerable amount of educational music. In over 40 years of teaching, Jo has specialised in many areas, from early childhood music through secondary school curriculum development (Steiner) and general across the board music education. Accordingly, her music ranges from fun songs for young children and piano music at all levels to vocal/instrumental ensemble work for high school students and choral writing on demand for all sizes and styles of choir.
Currently Jo lives near Fremantle with her husband and a menagerie of animals, their three daughters having long since flown the coop! She maintains a busy private practice and continues to write prolifically, with many of her works published by Wirripang and others available through her websites at www.songrealm.com (mainly compositional) or www.josmusic.com.au (mainly teaching).
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