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British born
author, Christine Davies is from a musical family. Her mother was a
school music and violin teacher, and she began learning the piano at
the age of 8. Listening to her mother's string quartet inspired her
to learn the cello. Christine spent many of her formative years
making music, singing in choirs, and playing the cello in youth orchestras.
An Honor's
graduate and teaching specialist, Christine has extensive experience
in English, Welsh, Portuguese and American schools. She has drawn on
her strong musical background to create choral, hand chimes and
recorder groups, musical productions and community performances.
Christine believes
that learning to make music should be fun and as an aid to her own
music teaching, Christine invented a series of games. She has
concentrated on developing the games in a logical sequence to aid
children during the early stages of learning piano. The material
covered in the games includes note reading, actions, dancing, and
aural practice. The strategy proved to be a success and FJH published
her first book, Games for Music Reading, in 1999.
Christine
currently lives with her family in Virginia Beach where she continues
to play and teach music. |
