Staff

SCHOOL EXECUTIVE

Dean - Professor Matthew Marshall

Executive Assistant to the Dean - Kim MacKenzie

Music

Theatre

Multimedia

Creative Enterprise

Professor Matthew Marshall

Matthew Marshall is Professor and Dean of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at Central Queensland University Australia and is one of New Zealand's leading classical guitarists. He was a prize-winner in the 1988 NZ Young Musician of the Year Competition and a recipient of an AGC Young Achievers Award and the UDC/Rotary Young Musicians Prize in 1989. He also won prizes in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London in 1990, Australia/New Zealand Foundation Awards in 1991 & 1995 and a New Zealand/France Friendship Award in 2006.

 He has performed throughout Europe, Asia, Pacific Islands, America, Australasia, and from Iceland to Easter Island! He has also given over 80 concerto performances in New Zealand, Mexico, Russia and Germany including appearances with the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, the Guanajuato & Michoacan Symphony Orchestras in Mexico and the Kemerovo Philharmonic in Russia. Included in this are over 40 performances of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.

Matthew has recorded for radio and television in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Mexico, Russia, Germany, Iceland and England and also features on nine CDs for solo guitar, chamber music and with orchestra. He is also an advocate for contemporary New Zealand music, with more than 40 works written for or premiered by him including six concertos and numerous solo and chamber works. Prior to his appointment at CQUniversity Matthew held positions as Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK (2006-2009), Director of Music at Dartington College of Arts, UK (2006-2007) and Head of the Conservatorium of Music, Massey University, NZ (1996-2005).

Dr Derrin Kerr

Dr Derrin Kerr is Program Coordinator of the Bachelor of Music program at CQUniversity. He holds a Doctor of Education (CQUniversity), Masters of Music (Michigan State University) and a Bachelor of Music (Queensland Conservatorium of Music) and has published in peer-reviewed journals in the field of music education. Derrin has wide experience in contemporary music education and is a co-founder of the internationally recognized Hamilton Island Music Project. Having been a member of the music staff at CQUniversity for the past ten years, Derrin has taught in the areas of specialist instrumental tuition, music history, music theory, jazz improvisation and ensemble direction. He is the founder and coordinator of the Jammin' program, a four day annual event held in both Mackay and Cairns that provides an opportunity for school age students to interact with BMusic staff and students in a collaborative performance project. As an active performer, director of the CQUniversity Jazz Orchestra and co-producer of the highly acclaimed jazz tours, Derrin has been instrumental in the development of the extensive footprint of the CQUniversity jazz and popular music program.

Dr Ian Gaskell

A theatre director and designer, Ian Gaskell was trained in Canada where he worked as both an academic and professional theatre artist. He obtained his doctorate from the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, with a dissertation on Elizabethan Drama. His last position in Canada was with Bishop's University in Quebec where he was Professor in the Department of Drama and the Administrative Director of a three-theatre performing arts centre. He has also worked throughout Canada in the professional theatre specializing in stage management, technical direction, design and theatre management. Included in his professional experience are seven years with the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, three years with the Charlottetown Festival and several seasons with regional theatres in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.

Prior to joining CQUniversity, Ian was the Foundation Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, a position he held for twelve years. In his years at USP he directed and designed major productions of plays by Edward Bond, Ntozake Shange, Bertolt Brecht, William Shakespeare and local playwright Larry Thomas. He has written articles and reviews on Elizabethan drama, Canadian theatre and plays from the South Pacific. His current research interests include indigenous performance in the Pacific and the field o f applied theatre. For s everal years he worked with the Vanuatu-based Wan Smolbag Theatre Company assessing the educational effectiveness of community theatre.

Mrs Judith Brown

Judith Brown is a Senior Lecturer at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music within CQUniversity, Australia. She is a graduate of the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, South Australia where she majored in piano performance, and also CQUniversity in the area of arts administration and education. She regularly lectures in piano, studio teaching methods, music theory, aural musicianship, theatre history, and music history. Judith works with all the undergraduate students in music theatre song interpretation and performance, and gives regular public lecture recitals on a wide range of topics and musical genres. As a pianist, Judith has performed with some of Australia's leading classical musicians including Gerald English, Geoffrey Collins, Mark Gasser, Garrick Jones, Kim Kirkman and Jason Redman. She is also an accomplished performer of music theatre and cabaret genres having performed in cabaret with Nancye Hayes (Australia) and Peter Saide (Jersey Boys, Las Vegas). She also had a performance role in the acclaimed Australian film Breaker Morant where she accompanied the English actor Edward Woodward during the film.

Her research interests include performance pedagogy and lifelong learning in the performing arts and she has published internationally and nationally on these issues. Judith maintains an active performance profile as a soloist and accompanist in many different genres of music and performing arts. Judith is an executive member of the National Council of Tertiary Music Schools.

Mr Kim Kirkman

Kim Kirkman arrived in Mackay mid 2004 from London to teach strings, composition, conducting, music technology and voice at the CQUniversity. After originally training as a violist (B Mus), Kim studied voice at the Queensland Conservatorium (Post Grad Dip). He has also worked as a composer (he recently produced TOSCA - the technopera) and conductor (he currently conducts the Mackay Choral Society and Con Singers). Kim was the co-owner, musical director and member of The Ten Tenors for many years. Having a very varied career, he has worked as a script-writer, administrator, teacher and contract diver. Kim's research interests are in ‘techno' music and how it can bring a new relevance to opera.

Mr Garrick Jones

In the space of 12 years, Garrick Jones went from a country boy on a sheep station in outback N.S.W. to performing as an opera singer on the stages of Europe. Over the period of 30 years he had a high profile performing career spanning the concert platform to major International Festivals. During the course of this long career, he managed to pack in some unusual performing experiences, such as concert recital tours through India, China and South America, an opera performed in a circus tent directed by a famous contemporary composer, openings of buildings, bridges and even a large Sydney fashion centre. He has performed before the royal families of Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, in the Royal Spa in Bath, the roman amphitheatres in Aix and Verona, and the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, and an open pit mine in Mount Newman in Western Australia These highlights were sprinkled through a performing agenda that covered North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He survived a bomb blast during a performance in the Opera House in Belfast, and another performance in Aberdeen when he was locked out of the theatre wearing a toga, and during a heavy snow storm. Garrick Jones has a Master's Degree through the University of Wollongong and is currently enrolled in a PhD program at Macquarie University. He publishes regularly and is an invited adjudicator to many National Australian singing competitions.

Mr Jason Smyth-Tomkins

Jason Smyth-Tomkins is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Music (jazz and popular) program at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, CQUniversity. Jason is a graduate of the Bachelor of Jazz Studies (Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music) and the Graduate Diploma of Music Studies (Queensland Conservatorium of Music). Jason is an experienced and versatile drummer/percussionist having performed in jazz combos, big bands, corporate commercial bands, orchestras and pit orchestras. Jason has performed with a variety of respected jazz artists including: Don Rader (USA/Sydney), Don Burrows, Rick Holland (USA), Richie Cole (USA), Kevin Hunt, Clive Moorehead, Kristin Berardi, James Sherlock and Graham Jesse. Jason currently lectures in jazz and contemporary drum-set performance, jazz and commercial ensemble, theory and jazz history. Jason’s past teaching includes nearly a decade as a percussion specialist, big band director and percussion ensemble director in the Education Queensland Instrumental Music Program. Jason is a Yamaha Australia Artist. 

Mr Peter McKenzie

Peter McKenzie teaches saxophone, ensemble, jazz history and improvisation within the BMusic program at the CQUniversity. Peter holds a Bachelor of Jazz Studies and a Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching from CQUniversity. Peter has attended the Aebersold Summer School and International Schools of Jazz Conference at the University of Louisville in 2006. Peter is at home on all saxophones and his versatility extends through many musical styles including jazz, commercial music, musicals and contemporary saxophone works. He has played and toured with a number of major artists, including Guy Sebastian, Michael Davison (USA), Vince Jones, Graham Jesse, Kristin Berardi, Paul Hudson, and James Sherlock. Peter has also participated in masterclasses with US jazz educators, Jerry Coker, David Liebman and David Baker. Currently finishing his Masters of Learning Management, Peter's research interests include jazz improvisation and composition.

Mr James Sherlock

A Graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, James Sherlock was the winner of the Ike Isaacs International Jazz Guitar Award in 1997 and was nominated for the Freedman Fellowship in 2005. He has worked with a variety of bands and soloists, including Barney McAll, Scott Tinkler, Ken Edie, Dale Barlow, Sheila Jordan, Bernie McGann, Simon Barker, Brett Hirst, Ingrid Jensen, Steve Newcomb, Joe Chindamo, Allan Browne, Jim Kelly and Doug DeVries. In addition, he has played or recorded with such diverse artists as British guitar virtuoso Martin Taylor, Katie Noonan, New York film composer Howard Shore and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Orchestra. The James Sherlock Trio is featured in the ABC TV Jazz Series "The Pulse". James plays a custom Hancock archtop and a custom Paul Pallister amplifier. As well as playing or recording with such diverse artists as British guitar virtuoso Martin Taylor, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra, Katie Noonan & New York film composer Howard Shore.

Reviews
Kevin Jones - Weekend Australian, Nov 2001
"The highlights of the recent national jazz series, The Pulse, shown on ABC TV, were the world class
performances of three Melbourne musicians...(one of which was) guitarist James Sherlock. Warm and
relaxed, Sherlock may favour the so called traditional guitar sound, but his fertile melodic and harmonic
imagination make him a guitarist to be reckoned with.......(Southwall) is exhilarating and exciting jazz"

Martin Leslie - Libretto, April 2001
"The James Sherlock Trio swings and how! What a gift he has! A depth of talent far beyond his years. To
hear him perform is to experience everything that is sweet and good about guitar music"

Peter Jordan - Rolling Stone Magazine, July 99
"Sherlock's highly developed rhythmic & melodic sense gives the material bite & lifts it out of the predictable"

Mr Viv Middleton

Viv Middleton has been involved in jazz education for many decades both in his private studio and in the tertiary environment at Griffth University and CQUniversity. He has performed with major national and international artists and is known in the industry as being a master of the repertoire of jazz and popular music. Viv's group Mood Swing features vocalist Irene Bartlett and is an ensemble that brings both depth and variety to their performances.

Mr Gustavo Cereijo

Gustavo arrived in Brisbane in the summer of 2005 from Sydney, where, for the past twenty five years, he has dedicated his life to pursuing and perfecting all genres of Latin music in particular Afro Cuban music, having traveled to the rhythmic & colourful Island of Cuba several times to advance his studies and passion. Touring and playing with international artists such as the Afro Cuban All Stars, Buena Vista Social Club, Jimmy Bosh, Gypsy Kings and one of Latin music's greatest voices; Oscar De Leon, enhanced and deepened Gustavo's knowledge and skills in directing and coordinating large musical ensembles. Working in Sydney, Gustavo became the Musical Director of three of the city's major Salsa bands, who have since performed at many memorable events including Sydney Bacardi Festival. For four years Gustavo toured intensively around Australia from 2001 - 2005 with Drum Beat, a show incorporating the art and origin of drumming and percussion (The Art of Hitting Things), sponsored by Billy Hydes and Latin Percussion. The purpose of this tour was not only to teach primary & secondary students how to drum, but to expose them to authentic World music and cultures. Gustavo has also performed on the TV Hit serious Australian Idol and MTV Music Awards 2006, now in Brisbane; he has formed Chukale, 11 piece Afro Cuban Salsa Ensemble, whose dynamic presence will ensure a world class standard to continue.

Dr Ashley Holmes PhD

Ashley Holmes has award-winning teaching skills. He has management and administrative experience in a regional university context. This follows a successful twenty five-year business career as a creative industry producer and company director. He is an awarded designer, widely published photographer and has gained international recognition as a new media digital artist. Ashley has established an innovative research, publication and exhibition profile in the broadly defined fields of fine art, interactive computer interface design and emergent social media. He is currently Head of Program, and teaches into the Bachelor of Multimedia Studies at CQUniversity Mackay campus.

Recent Refereed Publications

2010 "Cohesion, Adhesion and Incoherence: Magazine Production with a Flickr Special Interest Group." M/C Journal 13.1, March 2010. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/210 

2009 "Artworld: Changing Gatekeepers?" in Working Papers in Art and Design, volume 5, University of Hertfordshire, 2009. http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/vol5/ahabs.html

2008 "Syncretism in narrativity, visuality and tactility: a case study of information visualization concerning a news media event" in Reconstruction Vol. 8, No. 3, 2008. Ganz, A. & Khatib, L. (eds). Special issue entitled Visualization and Narrative. http://reconstruction.eserver.org/083/holmes.shtml

2006 "Our place: in between the primordial and the latter" in Transformations Journal, September 2006 http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_13/article_03.shtml

2006 "Reconciling experimentum and experientia: reflective practice research methodology for the creative industries" in Speculation & Innovation: Applying Practice-Led Research in the Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, August 2006

Recent Non-refereed Publications

2009 Haphazart! Contemporary Abstracts, Issue 02, November 2009. Collaborative editorial work by Dom Ciancibelli, Ashley Holmes, Christian Kinzler, J Neuberger and Krystina Stimakovits featuring artists from the haphazart! Contemporary Abstracts group on flickr. Featured Artists: Ashley Holmes, Leonie Polah, Jane Underwood.

2005 "Deborah Paauwe, Beautiful Games". Book review in Idiom 23 November 2005, Delamoir, J., (Ed), CQU Press

Selected Recent Exhibitions

2010 Affinity: ‘Dean Invites' solo exhibition at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, 16 - 29 July 2011.

2009 Waters' Edge Creative Environments touring exhibition documenting the outcomes of the workshops and installations from 2008: Cairns Regional Gallery 17 July - 30 August; Artspace Mackay 30 October - 13 December.

2008 Waters' Edge Creative Environments in collaboration with Ngaio Lenz and Tracey Heathwood - working with celebrated Cairns-based artist, Jill Chism. Workshops and installations in National parks from Monday 4 August to Sunday 10 August, 2008 .

2006 "Inverse Blink" series of three 'hands-free' interactive multimedia installations in Pacific Edge: contemporary art from coastal Queensland, Artspace Mackay, 8 September - 22 October 2006

2005 "In-between the Primordial and the Latter", 'hands-free' interactive multimedia installation at Making Badlands conference CQU Bundaberg Dec.

2004 The Four Elements of Apathy, multimedia installation at Artspace Mackay 30 Dec 2003 - 24 Jan 2004, in collaboration with May-Britt Mosshammer & Martin Francis.

2002 "11th hour", (published under the screen alias 'spans'), the digital pocket gallery, a curator's pick for June 2002.

2001 "Freznel Lizard", (published under the screen alias 'spans'), Art on the Net 2001, Post-Cagian Interactive Sounds; exhibition at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo.

2001 "Algorhythm", in collaboration with Matthew Hawker, C-Theory Multimedia, Issue 2, Spring 2001, ‘Tech Flesh' exhibition.

Selected Grants, Awards, Commissions

2011 Mackay Base Hospital Redevelopment Public Art Project

2008 Funds from Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) and from Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental art projects and community workshops in collaboration with mentor, Jill Chism, and with fellow Mackay artists, Tracey Heathwood & Ngaio Lenz for a project entitled Waters' Edge, creating environments.

2005 Regional Center of the Arts (RCotA) fund 2005, CQU: "Inverse Blink" project.

Mr Qing Huang

Previous Appointments
Chinese language teacher
Victoria School of Languages, February - December, 2004 
Computer animator and web designer
Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, 1994-1998
Computer animator and graphic designer
Edison Industry Ltd, Shanghai, China, 1993-1994

Awards
2006 Digital Art San Diego, 1st Place Award winner of The Art of Digital Show
2006 Comgraph 2006 ACM Siggraph Singapore Chapter, 7th Asia Pacific Digital Art and Animation competition. Gold Award winner
2005 China Central Television (CCTV) Animation Competition. 1st place award winner 
2004 Finalist of Annecy International Animated film Festival in France 
2003 Atom Awards: Best Tertiary Animation; Best General Animation (2003)
Certificate of participation of Chinese National Exhibition of Fine Art, 1991 
Class 2 scholarship each year during the time from 1985 - 1991
La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Scholarship (LTUPRS) (2000-2002)

Teaching Activities
Teaching in the School of Contemporary Communication and the School of Arts and Creative Enterprise, Central Queensland University

2008 
• Coordinator and lecturer, Multimedia: Production and Management Processes
• Coordinator and lecturer, Chinese Language study program developer & manager

2007 
Coordinator and lecturer, Multimedia: Production and Management Processes

2006
• Coordinator and lecturer, Multimedia: Production and Management Processes

2005
• Associate lecturer, Teaching And Tutoring Multimedia Courses

Publications
• Q. Huang, R. Balsys, Applying Fractal and Chaos Theory to Animation in the Chinese Literati Tradition, CGIV09 Computer Animation, Information Visualisation, Tianjin, China, pp.112-122, 2009.
• ABC Digital Arts Online Workshop
http://www.abc.net.au/arts/strange/workshop/maya.htm

Portfolio
My Major Animation work: The Way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFKxfL7tV4

Ms Regina Luan

Qualifications & Research & Publications
Education background:

• 2005 - Master In Business Administration , University Of Technology Mara Malaysia 
• 1999 Bachelor of Honours Degree in Business Information Technology University Of Coventry 
• 1997 Graduate Diploma in Computing INTI International University Malaysia

Professional certificate:
• 2009 - Certificate IV in Training and Assessment , Australia 
• 2005 - Certified Professional Trainer for Microsoft Office 2003 Specialist, Microsoft Corp 
• 2000 - Certificate of Teaching - Adult teaching-Pedagogy , Malaysia

Professional Experience
Teaching History: 
2010 - Present Central Queensland University, Australia
Position: Lecturer
Responsible to teach and coordinate the following subjects:
• Interactive Animation for Games
• Development of Mobile Application
• Foundation of Animation
Tutoring the following subjects:
• 3D Animation
• Design Perspective
• Digital Design and Communication
• Advanced Media Development

2008 to 2010 Cambridge International College SA, Australia 
Position: Lecturer 
Responsible to teach the following subjects: 
• Interactive Multimedia Application 
• Websites and designing web pages development using HTML,XHTML,CSS and PHP
• Multimedia Industry 
2007 to 2008 INTI International College , Malaysia 

Position: Lecturer 
Responsible to teach the following subjects: 
• Developing Interactive Multimedia Application 
• Principle of Information Technology

2004 to 2007 Fujitsu Technology Malaysia
Position: Master Trainer
Responsibility:
• To train government teachers and school principals on th e development of Multimedia teaching aids in the Smart School environment.
• To educate the teachers on Multimedia technology smart integration in the classroom. 
• To conduct assessment on teacher's lesson plan and Multimedia teaching aids production.

2000 to 2004 Informatics Institute Sabah, Malaysia 
Position: Senior Lecturer / Head of School/ Corporate Trainer
Responsible to teach the following subjects: 
• Multimedia Development and Theories
• Computer System
• Business Information Technology
• E-Commerce

1999 to 2002 University Putra Malaysia 
Position: Part-time tutor 
Responsible to teach the following subject:
• Multimedia development
• Computer System
• Business Marketing 
• Previous research 
• Globalization and its impact toward Asian Company 
• Privatization - Government roles and community benefits in Malaysian context, 2004
• Sexual harassment in the workplace, prevention strategy, 2004
• The rise of the pirated version of compact disc, the impact to the industry and to the Malaysian economy, 1999
• Understanding hackers and hacking in digital world, 1998

Key Achievements

• Chairman award, Informatics Institute Singapore 2004. 
• Outstanding achievement award, Informatics Institute Malaysia 2003.

Interests
• Computer Animation 
• Digital Arts and Design
• Multimedia development