We extend a warm welcome to Dr. Jennifer Carter our adjudicator for the 12th annual Lower Clarence Music Eisteddfod.

After a career as music and English teacher and Head Teacher Creative Arts in NSW schools, Jennifer Carter worked as a Senior Registration Officer at the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), and as a sessional lecturer for both ACU and the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University, lecturing to both primary music and secondary music preservice teachers. Jennifer has been Chief Examiner of HSC Music in NSW and has extensive experience in HSC marking. 

As a researcher, she has presented at music conferences both nationally and internationally on Assessment in secondary music classrooms, and on current secondary classroom music practice. Her PhD thesis researched secondary classroom music teachers and the development of music syllabus documents in NSW over a forty-year period.