CURRICULUM VITAE 2025

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Name: Peter John Officer

Instrument: Violin/Viola

Address: Northcote 3070

Mobile: 0430 339 109

Working with Children Check Number: 1118370A-02 (expiry date 08/09/2027)

Email: jofficer@optusnet.com.au

Date of Birth: 14/2/57

Employment Status: Retired/working part time from home

Qualifications: Bachelor of Music (Melb. University, 1988) 

Graduate Diploma of Education (Melb. University, Hawthorn Institute of Education 1996)

Suzuki Teachers’ Certificate Australia Advanced Violin 2011 (Suzuki Teachers’ Certificate Australia 1998 Primary and Suzuki Teachers’ Certificate Australia 2007 Intermediate)

Member of the Concert Class (Post Grad.) of the Lucerne Conservatorium studying with Professor Rudolf Baumgartner and Maestro Gunars Larsens (1983 to 1985)

1990 to 2017 Salaried Instrumental Teacher, Scotch College, Hawthorn and TIC of Scotch College Suzuki Violin and Cello Programme. 

1988 to 1990 Head of Strings, St. Anne’s and Gippsland Grammar School, Sale. This position involved similar duties to my current position, albeit in a much smaller music school.

1986 to 1988 Freelance orchestral playing with the State Orchestra of Victoria, The Australian Pops Orchestra, The Melbourne Musicians and other ensembles. I also taught privately from home.

1983 to 1985 Postgraduate studies in violin playing in Lucerne, Switzerland with Professor Rudolf Baumgartner and Maestro Gunars Larsens (Conductor and Concertmaster respectively of the Festival Strings of Lucerne). While I was in Switzerland I also played as a freelance musician with the Zürich Symphony Orchestra and the Collegium Musicum of Lucerne.

1981 to 1983 Permanent full-time member of the Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra (now Orchestra Victoria). This involved providing orchestral accompaniment to the Australian Ballet, the Australian Opera and the Victoria State Opera as well as some purely orchestral concerts.

• Reliable, honest, considerate and able to establish rapport with children by showing empathy and sensitivity to their needs.
• Enjoy learning and personal and professional development.
• Experienced in communicating with a wide range of people.
• Work well as part of a team or independently.
• Willing to take on challenges.
• Meet deadlines.
• Creative and imaginative.