Dr Aleta King is director of Avondale Conservatorium, lecturer in musicianship and conducting, and artistic director and conductor of choirs and orchestras at Avondale University. A former lecturer in musicianship at the universities of Queensland and Melbourne and accompanist for Queensland Conservatorium Chorus, and an invited guest presenter for ASME, KMEIA, ANCA, and MTA. During her studies at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music, Aleta received the Sarolta Kodály Foundation Scholarship, International Kodály Society Sarolta Kodály Scholarship, and Hungarian Government Scholarship. As musical director of the London Adventist Chorale, Aleta had the experience of performing for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Golden Jubilee celebrations at Buckingham Palace. Aleta recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts (Conducting) with Associate Professors Neil McEwan and Jennifer Rowley at Sydney Conservatorium in 2021. In 2016 Aleta was invited to present her doctoral research at Oxford Conducting Institute’s inaugural International Conducting Studies Conference at Oxford University. She returned to present at Oxford again in 2018 and was one of the organising committee for OCI’s third conference held at Sydney Conservatorium, August 2019. Aleta was convenor of the Australian National Choral Association’s Inaugural Research Conference in April 2022.
Aleta is presenting a paper:
Nadia Boulanger on Musicianship
and is also a Musicianship presenter as well as an presenting an Open Rehearsal with her choir, The Promise of Avondale