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From the website Australian Music Centre:
Born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 26 July 1946, Milne enjoyed great success as a young pianist at the famous South Street Competitions held there every year.
She attended Ballarat Teachers' College, gaining her TPTC (Trained Primary Teacher's Certificate), and was granted an extended studentship to the Conservatorium of Music at Melbourne University.
For 15 years Milne was a member of Music Branch (Education Department of Victoria) teaching music in inner suburban schools, and producing many new resource materials and curriculum documents
She has worked extensively as a composer, arranger and musical director for various Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs and publications.
In addition to two published song collections Milne has also written and produced Good Timing (resource kit for schools) and Jazzamatazz (jazz-style piano solos), published by Dubbles (Music Materials).
In 1986 she won an international award (Pater) for best new jazz song.
She has had extensive experience in the theatre as both a composer and stage manager. A founding member of the APG (Pram Factory) and Melbourne Writers Theatre, she has also worked at Playbox, La Mama, The Church, Organ Factory, VCA Drama School, Theatreworks, Athenaeum, Universal Theatre, Handspan, Polyglot, Perth, Flinders and Deakin Universities, Rusden Drama Department.
Milne has worked in the Artist in Schools program (song writing workshops), taught on the Experimental Teaching Program established by Max Cooke at the Faculty of Music (Melbourne University), produced an album of Australian folk songs with Denis Gibbons, toured with the Victorian Arts Council, been commissioned as a composer/lyricist by both the Yamaha Foundation and AMEB and played keyboard in various function bands.
Over the past decade or so Milne has been writing curriculum materials and presenting Professional Development courses for Musica Viva In Schools, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, Oz Opera and most recently the National Gallery of Victoria.
She considers the main influences on her musical life to be:
having Keith Humble as a teacher (what a privilege!)
her love of jazz along with Ravel, Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, etc.
being there at the beginning of the Pram Factory, and
attempting to teach music in inner suburban schools.
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