Mary cornish biography

          Mary Cornish was born in and graduated from the MFA program in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, though she initially enrolled in the creative nonfiction.

        1. Catherine Mary Cornish MNZM is a New Zealand music educator, artistic director and choral conductor.
        2. After a progressive disease struck her drawing hand, Cornish enrolled in the MFA program for creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College, where she soon switched to poetry.
        3. A graduate of the Sarah Lawrence MFA program, and a former Wallace Stegner fellow, Cornish currently teaches at Western Washington University.
        4. She began painting professionally in Mary slowly built her following through word of mouth.

          5. After a progressive disease struck her drawing hand, Cornish enrolled in the MFA program for creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College, where she soon switched to poetry..

          Mary Cornish

          New Zealand performing arts educator

          Mary Cornish

          MNZM

          Cornish in 2023

          AwardsMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit

          Catherine Mary CornishMNZM is a New Zealand music educator, artistic director and choral conductor.

          In 2023 Cornish was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the performing arts.

          Career

          Cornish is a music teacher and has taught at primary, intermediate and secondary levels.

          Cornish was a founding trustee and chair of the New Zealand Ukulele Trust for six years, from 2010 to 2016. The trust organises the annual Ukulele Festival, which celebrated its tenth birthday in 2016, when it involved 2000 players from 122 schools across New Zealand.[1][2][3] Cornish was the artistic director of the festival, and arranged for guest artists including Dave Dobbyn and Six60 to play alongside the schoolchildren.[1]

          Cornish founded a bi-annual festival, In Our Beat, in 2