Gillian Erskine

Gillian lives with her family in sub-tropical Brisbane - and enjoys nothing more than walking along the beach on some of Australian world famous beaches that are close to home; Noosa, Gold Coast and Byron Bay. Inspired as a young teacher to find a better way to teach music than her early musical upbringing Gillian co-founded Forte School of Music and Piano Teaching Success. As host for online TV show, and The Studio membership Gillian and her team work passionately to help piano teachers around the world engage, motivate and accelerate success through whole body learning and making music fun!

Gillian has lead the writing teams for all 20 Forte course books, composing many pieces in this series. She has co-authored best selling easiLEARN Theory Books aimed at making theory fun and is a pedagogical composer for piano specialising in Beginner to intermediate level pieces. To inspire others, Gillian has also been delighted to have her stories accepted in The Power of Why series books.