1. Wendy Brentnall-Wood
Wendy Brentnall-Wood is the founder and CEO of Wendy’s Music Pty Ltd and Wendy’s
Music Franchising Pty Ltd– a long established music education business based in
Rosanna, Victoria, Australia. Wendy has an extensive professional background (playing
no less than a dozen different instruments) and family pedigree in music – her first love.
Wendy’s impressive resume is evidence of her entrepreneurial skills and business
acumen.
Born in rural Victoria, Wendy comes from a musical family that includes self-taught
country musicians on her father’s side and classically trained musicians on her mother’s
side. Wendy’s Great Grandfather was the well known Cornish singer Thomas Burgin
who migrated to Victoria around 1888. Her mother’s family were well known in Ballarat
and in Melbourne’s north eastern suburb of Heidelberg with Wendy’s grandfather
conducting the Heidelberg Choral Society and Southern Choral Society for many years
winning numerous South Street trophies and touring the UK.. Her maternal
grandparents were both accomplished singers and her pianist mother encouraged
Wendy’s musical ability from a young age.
Wendy’s family later moved to the Banyule area (north east Melbourne) where she
attended Ivanhoe East Primary School, Banyule High School and Ivanhoe Girls
Grammar School starting piano lessons at 8 from her maternal Aunt Wilma Jennings,
while also learning the recorder and singing in the choir. This was followed by clarinet,
oboe, guitar and percussion at high school while later taking up violin, flute, drums and
saxophone to varying levels.
As well as her degree in Music Education, Wendy has an Associate Diploma of Music
(AMEB) Piano and is a qualified ANZCA Examiner (multiple instruments), Teacher
Trainer,Adjudicator,Speaker and Mentor to other Music teachers. In addition to her
musical heritage, Wendy’s family has a long line of entrepreneurs and business
owners.Wendy’s three siblings all have their own businesses in finance, medical and
arts areas, her father ran his own building and construction business as did his father
before him. Wendy’s Maternal grandfather was also an owner operator in manufacturing
Wendy first began teaching privately in homes to put herself through university. After
several years in the classroom,she then opened her first retail music school in Burgundy
street, Heidelberg in 1985 known as Wendy's Piano Music and from there ran the
Heidelberg Piano Eisteddfod for three years. She eventually wrote her own series of
over 100 books and other teaching materials that make learning to read music simple
and structured and which form the unique Wendy's Music method, the Little Musos
program and in addition to other workshop programs.
Wendy has experience in classroom primary and secondary classroom music, preschool
classes in addition to instrumental lessons in schools, studios and privately face to face
and online. Teaching and Co-ordinator positions include Santa Maria College Northocte,
Marcellin College Bulleen, CLC College Eltham, Viewbank Primary and numerous
primary schools in Melbourne for instrumental teaching. Her business grew from her
home private teaching to over 30 primary schools around Metro Melbourne and with a
team of around 30 teachers and admin staff. Wendy then franchised her school
programs in 2000. After also running no less than four different music and retail studios

2. in north eastern Melbourne, Wendy is now developing an online business model and
including now establishing the online music directory Book My Music Lessons.