“I didn’t grow up in a musical house, but we did own a record store. We never really sat around the table talking about music, the family talked about business. I had an absolute passion for music and loved playing, but I wasn’t surrounded by it, my environment was other stuff.”
Teacher, researcher and woodwind specialist, Dr Diana Tolmie has combined her passion, professional experience and her MBA training to lead the development of an innovative suite of courses and research around career management for musicians at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Dr Tolmie believes musicians need to be creative entrepreneurs; developing, honing and forever recreating musical identities that challenges themselves as life-long learning artists and allows them to sustain their livelihoods.
Since 2011 Dr Tolmie has been delivering a career development stream of study that helps students understand their cultural and economic value beyond their musical skills and dedication.
The result has been
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