Winifred Bickerstaff, of Napier,QSM, for services to music education
Winifred Bickerstaff voluntarily organised community concerts for her students and those of other Hawke’s Bay teachers in the 1960s and 1970s. She has been involved in organising monthly public concerts since the 1980s, coordinating teachers, adult students and advanced students to perform. She established the Hawke’s Bay Branch of the New Zealand Suzuki Institute (NZSI). She has held all positions with this branch and was the Hawke’s Bay delegate on the National Executive. She organised two national NZSI conferences hosted by Hawke’s Bay. She developed an initiative to print and provide Practice Books to NZSI branch members throughout New Zealand.