Celia Stewart has been involved in music education for many years as a primary and early childhood teacher, lecturer in Early Childhood at the Christchurch College of Education, primary music adviser in Canterbury with UC EdPlus at the University of Canterbury and National Facilitator in Primary Music for the Ministry of Education. She is currently a self-employed music educator and consultant through her business, Tune Into Music, and her most recent roles include running professional development workshops for teachers, organising music events, supporting schools and centres in their music programmes and writing resources for teachers.

Celia is a passionate advocate of the Orff Schulwerk approach to music education and has completed three levels of Orff Schulwerk training in both NZ and Australia. This training is recognised internationally. She has also completed three Masters level papers through Waikato University and is currently working on her thesis which will have a focus on the Orff approach to music education.

Celia began her music education with CSM at the age of 7, learning flute and recorder and working her way up to principal flute with the CYO, a position she held for many years. She founded the pre-school department in conjunction with Merryn Dunmill and has supervised both the flute and recorder departments, so the CSM has been a very important part of her life.