Ms Anna Henwood
School of Education
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Anna Henwood gratefully acknowledges the support she received for her Doctor of Philosophy research at the University of Adelaide through the provision of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (RTPS) stipend. Anna’s thesis relates to the flute pedagogy and contribution of her teacher, Raymond Guiot, a student of Marcel Moyse (1889–1984), flute teacher of the 1900s and writer of many flute books,. Anna has a rich musical, linguistic, and educational background, and her experiences in Australia and overseas have helped shape her strong intercultural and teaching skills. Anna accepted a full scholarship for Bachelor of Music (Performance) study at Flinders Street School of Music, offered to her following her year twelve results for Performance and Performance Special Study. It was after year twelve that Anna met Raymond Guiot in Rome and decided to one day return and study with him in Italy. After graduating with Honours in Performance at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Anna completed a three-year course with Raymond Guiot at the Accademia italiana del flauto (Italian Flute Academy) in Rome, and was awarded a First Prize on examination. Anna is a registered classroom teacher with experience teaching in primary, secondary, and tertiary settings.
I qualified for the award of Doctor of Philosophy in 2024, and I was the first in the history of the Elder Conservatorium of Music to complete an oral examination (viva voce), a process that has not been widely used for non-medical doctoral examinations in Australia.
My doctoral thesis was awarded a 2024 University Doctoral Research Medal for outstanding doctoral research. My thesis examines flautists in Italy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms to Higher Educational Institutions in Italy, and the re-discovery of Italian composers. The intercultural and intersemiotic nature of my research requires a high level of advanced language, music, and education skills.
Throughout my doctoral research, I had the pleasure to complete an Industry Partnership Project with the Dante Alighieri Society of South Australia, in which I performed and organized concerts of Australian and world premiere performances of music by twenty-first century composers featured in my doctoral thesis (for example, music by Guiot, Santucci, Pelle, and Deraco). The partnership also included creating new curriculum in Italian, and leading a hybrid-online workshop for teachers of modern languages, exploring curriculum I wrote for the Department of Education Victoria and the Modern Languages Teacher Association of Victoria, published (2018) and available online at: https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/resource/99SZJH?fuse=1.
My research sits at the intersection of Music and Italian cultural studies. I enjoy discovering forgotten Italian musicians who deserve to have their contributions more widely celebrated.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2024 | Doctor of Philosophy | The University of Adelaide |
| 2021 - ongoing | University Supervisor (Education Futures) | The University of South Australia |
| 2021 - ongoing | Flute tutor (Open Music Academy) | The University of Adelaide |
| 2016 - 2024 | Teacher (School of Education) | The University of New England |
| Language | Competency |
|---|---|
| French | Can read, write, speak and understand spoken |
| Italian | Can read, write, speak and understand spoken |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The University of Adelaide | Australia | Bachelor of Music (Honours) |
| Date | Title | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2024 | Doctor of Philosophy | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2015 - 2015 | Master of Modern Languages Education | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 2012 - 2012 | Graduate Diploma of Education | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2007 - 2008 | Graduate Diploma of TESOL | Tabor College | Australia |
| 2002 - 2005 | Corso triennale di perfezionamento | Accademia italiana del flauto | Italy |
| 1998 - 2005 | Graduate Diploma of Advanced Italian Language Studies | Flinders University | Australia |
| Date | Title | Institution name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Stage de Français langue étrangère niveau intermédiaire II | Greta Val Bugey Léman | France |
| — | Fully registered teacher (current) | Teachers Registration Board of South Australia | - |
| — | Fully registered with LOTE (current) | Victorian Institute of Teaching | Australia |
| — | Cours d'Été de niveau intermédiaire | Université de Genève | Switzerland |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Henwood, A., & Latrache, O. (2018). MLTAV 2018 annual conference: Victoria - the languages state - session sample presentation 1: Languages teaching and collaboration. Languages Victoria, 22(1), 11-14. |
| - | Henwood, A. (2025). Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France. MUSIC & LETTERS, 4 pages. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Pelle, A., & Henwood, A. (2024). Donne Divine - In cammino con Dante (No. Of Pieces: 1 hour) [Original audio visual]. Fogular Furlan: Fogular Furlan. |
| 2024 | Pelle, A., Branson, W., Williams, T., Moran, D., & Henwood, A. (2024). Selections from Ciclotimia (No. Of Pieces: Small ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, 'cello, piano)) [Performance]. The Baroque Hall. |
| 2024 | Henwood, A., Lavery-Brook, C., & Pelle, A. (2024). Australian Premieres: Music by Twenty-first Century Composers (No. Of Pieces: Concert of live music for flute, guitar & piano, all Australian premiere performances. Australian premiere of Ciclotimia, opera in Italian with world premiere in Lucca, Italy in 2023. Music by Pelle, Libretto by Henwood) [Performance]. Hartley Concert Room. |
GRANTS, FUNDING, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
University Doctoral Research Medal (2024) for outstanding research at PhD level.
University of Adelaide
Research Training Program Scholarship (RTPS) Stipend (Feb 2022–Sept 2024)
Third prize in the 2024 MSA Postgraduate Student Paper Award at the 47th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia
AUD 150
Special Mention in the 2023 MSA Postgraduate Student Paper Award at the 46th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia
Naomi Cumming Prize (2023)
Awarded by the Musicological Society of Australia (SA Chapter) for excellence in postgraduate research
AUD 200
Italian Government Award (2020)
AUD 30,000 towards Italian Language program. Application written in Italian.
Endeavour Language Teaching Fellowship (2015)
Federal Government Fellowship, (Università di Lecce, Puglia)
TESOL Plus (2013)
Award for outstanding academic achievement in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) study
Catholic Education of SA Country Teaching Grant (2012)
AUD 2,500
Federal Government Grant, University of Adelaide (2012)
Undergraduate grant for teaching practicum in Peru
AUD 2,500
Australian Foundation for Studies in Italy Award, Monash University (2002)
AUD 5,000
Helpmann Academy Grant (2002)
AUD 2,000 for flute study in Italy
Finalist for the Trevor Prescott Memorial Award (2002)
AMEB Prize (2000)
Most outstanding A. Mus. A examination (A. Mus. A. with distinction on flute), including performance at the Awards ceremony
Flinders Street School of Music (1998–2001)
Full tuition scholarship for Bachelor of Music (Performance) degree, held over four years of study and offered as a result of Year 12 performance subjects
Online teaching (University of New England)
Teacher, Tutor, and Marker for online undergraduate and master's courses (EDUC303/503 and EDCX246) for the School of Education, teaching across trimesters throughout 2021–2024. Previous work between 2016–18 involved marking (EDUC303/503).
Collective and individual teaching (University of Adelaide)
Flute tutor for the Open Music Academy, delivering collective technique classes and individual 1:1 classes for students from beginner to advanced level, including AMEB diploma levels.
University Supervisor (University of South Australia)
Supervising pre-service teachers on teaching placements in schools across Adelaide for the School of Education.
Classroom teaching
Ten years experience teaching in primary and secondary classrooms in South Australia, Melbourne, and the Northern Territory (Music, Italian and Flute tutor).
| Date | Institution | Department | Organisation Type | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 - 2014 | The University of South Australia | Research Centre for Languages and Cultures | School or college | Australia |
| Date | Engagement Type | Partner Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - 2024 | Research Contract | Dante Alighieri Society of South Australia |
| Date | Topic | Presented at | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 - 2024 | The Letters of Fortunato Sconzo | 47th National Conference of the MSA | Musicological Society of Australia | Australia |
| 2024 - 2024 | Santa Cecilia: Reforming a Conservatorio | The Second Biennial International Conference of Music and the University | The University of Surrey | United Kingdom |
| 2024 - 2024 | Lost and Found | ABLE HDR Conference | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2023 - 2023 | A Shipwrecked Sonata and a Photograph: Tracing the steps of Alfredo Casella and Mario Pilati | Open Borders: The Future of Music Research | 46th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia | Australia |
| 2023 - 2023 | Methods, Methodology, and Languages: Finding a place in Music Research | Research Day | Musicological Society of Australia, South Australia | Australia |
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