Get To Know Me
About Me
Who Am I ?
I’m Willow Neilson a designer of games, learning and entertaining content.
Beginning my career as a professional performing saxophone player I went onto place third in 3 international performance competitions in Europe before the age of 25. I toured internationally performing at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, London Jazz Festival and JZ Festival Shanghai among many others. I backed musicians such as John Legend, DeeDee Bridgewater and O’Donel Levy.
Always passionate to share my love of music with the next generation I taught music in Australia, China and the US. My love for education lead me to get my teaching credential in 2006 and my Masters of Learning Design and Technology in 2016. I was employed by Cultural Infusion and Age of Learning to develop interactive learning applications focused on music.
Developing new ways people can interact with music for learning and entertainment will always be a fascination of mine. I continue to develop my skills in game development and interaction design to keep pushing forward new creative visions. I blog on this at musicgamedesign.com and will soon launch a YouTube channel of the same name