Stephanie Grenning

Stephanie Grenning is a teacher, musician, researcher and conductor. She is currently the Junior
Secondary Coordinator and music teacher at a large State High School in Cairns comprising a multicultural
student population, including a large number of ABTSI and Pacific Islander students along
with students from a refugee background. Through this role she manages and implements social emotional
learning and wellbeing programs catering to diverse and at-risk students. As well as guest
lecturing at the University of Queensland, Stephanie assisted with the design of a new course called Music in War, Protest and Peace. She has presented internationally on intercultural music-making
and music education in at-risk and diverse settings, including post-conflict cultural reconciliation.

Stephanie also conducts the Training Choir of the Cairns Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir, a part
of the Gondwana Choirs directed by Lyn Williams OAM. Additionally, she is currently employed as a
research assistant for Margaret Barrett on the ARC Pedagogies of Expertise in Musical Thought and
Practice research project. Stephanie studied at the University of Queensland with Associate Professor
Patricia Pollett.