Sheri started her musical journey learning classical piano from the age of seven. After completing her AMEB exams, Sheri completed her Bachelor of Popular Music, majoring in Production, Engineering and Songwriting at the Queensland Conservatorium.

Sheri has extensive experience performing, recording and touring with bands throughout Australia, Germany and the UK. She is the lead singer of the alternative band LeBelle, which won the Australian leg of Emergenza and was placed fifth in the world final in Germany. Sheri has played alongside Iggy Pop and Pendulum at the Taubertal Festival in Rothenburg, Germany, as well as recording a full length album with renowned producer Forrester Savell.

Sheri is a friendly, patient and down-to-earth educator. Her experience teaching in schools as well as in the Australian music scene makes her an ideal teacher for those looking to learn fundamentals, classical repertoire and contemporary songs.

Katarzyna is a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and band leader, who studied Jazz & Improvisation at the University of Melbourne.

In 2020, Kat independently released a series of original music remotely recorded during two lockdowns including singles Sudden Limbo and Search for Stillness and an ambitious four- track EP of her octet From a Distance. Since its digital release in November, the EP has been independently pressed on vinyl and featured on national and international radio shows including BBC6 (UK), Tsubaki FM (Japan), Neo FM (Germany) and Bandcamp weekly (US). The lockdown album was listed at number 7 in The Guardian’s Best 10 Contemporary Albums of 2020. The Katarzyna Wiktorski Octet also sold out a show performing at The Jazzlab part of the 2020 Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival in December.

She has played at Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Red Deer Festival, Groovin’ the Moo and toured nationally supporting artists like Kimbra, Courtney Barnett, Bernard Fanning, Paul Dempsey, Big Scary, Augie March and The Besnard Lakes (Canada).

Kat is passionate, determined and dedicated to creating musical works for various live ensembles, screen and recording projects.

Tom has been teaching guitar at the school since 2015 after studying Jazz guitar at ANU School of Music in Canberra and Monash University in Melbourne. Since completing his studies, Tom has performed solo and in different groups at venues and festivals throughout Australia, Europe and Japan, most notably with the band 30/70. Tom has also produced and contributed guitar playing to some great recordings, all skills of which he brings to his teaching practice.

Tom has over ten years of tuition experience and takes a student specific approach to teaching guitar theory, technique and repertoire. Tom’s teaching tends to focus on helping students to learn music relevant to them as an individual, and teaching them the necessary skills and knowledge to understand and participate in the music they love. His lessons are friendly and relaxed, with a strong emphasis on goal-driven guidance.

Hailing from Perth, WA, Sorcha graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2013 with a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Guitar.) Sorcha has collaborated and shared the stage with notable musicians such as ARIA award-winning bassist Jonathan Zwartz, James Sherlock, Peter Bernstein, Julien Wilson, Adrian Eagle, and Kaiit among others. Sorcha’s group the ‘Sorcha Albuquerque Quartet’ supported legendary New Orleans pianist Jon Cleary at The Night Cat as part of his 2019 World Tour, and has performed regularly at Melbourne venues Uptown Jazz cafe, Bar303, and Bar Open.

Sorcha’s original compositions have been featured on ABC Jazztrack and ABC release ‘JazzCalls: Best of Australian Jazz’, and she has performed at festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Sydney Con Jazz Festival, Sydney Women’s Jazz festival, Edinburgh Fringe, and Stonnington Jazz Festival. In 2019 she was the touring guitarist for the Helpmann award-winning musical ‘Barbara and the Camp Dogs’. Sorcha currently divides her time between teaching and working on an upcoming EP due for release in 2021.

Tom started playing the guitar at the relatively older age of 16. However, since completing his Bachelor of Music with Honours at the VCA in 2017, he has released two albums of original music and is currently working on the next. Tom’s passion for teaching stems from the guidance he received from his mentors while at the VCA, most notably Peter Petrucci and Andrea Keller.

Performing regularly around Melbourne, Tom focuses mainly on original music and jazz standards. For three years Tom collectively held a monthly residence at the Brunswick Green, with the chromatic harmonica player – and good friend – Chris Maunders, playing repertoire from the Great American Songbook.

Tom specialises in teaching contemporary, jazz and improvised music on the guitar. Constantly honing in on his skills as a musician, he finds teaching immensely rewarding when it is driven by the wants and needs of the student. Technique and fundamentals are essential to learning the instrument; but with the teaching material guided by the interests of the student, Tom’s lessons are always welcoming and relaxed.

Melanie Taylor is a fun and engaging educator with a passion for performing, teaching and songwriting. With a Bachelor of Music (Jazz & Contemporary Voice) from Monash University, her stylistic expertise and interests range from folk to funk; jazz to musical theatre. Each lesson is tailored to engage and meet the individual needs of students across all ages and skill levels, providing the framework to achieve musical goals in a fun and supportive environment. Mel’s teaching style provides a rounded understanding of the voice with an emphasis on exploration and the joy of making sound.

As well as being an educator, Mel is an active performer in the Melbourne music scene as an independent singer-songwriter, the front woman for funk collective Headphones Jones, and vocalist in a cappella ensemble Invenio Singers.

Eva completed her Bachelor of Music in Jazz and Improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2019, majoring in Jazz and Contemporary Voice. Whilst there, she was guided by some of Melbourne’s finest vocalists, including Michelle Nicolle, Nina Ferro and Gian Slater, and received both the Bachelor of Music Scholarship and the Marion Thomas Voice Award. In her final year, she helped curate a weekly residency where she performed with various professional musicians across a vast array of musical genres and styles.

Eva released her debut single in 2020 and – as well as having recording and touring experience – she gigs regularly around Melbourne, performing her own music and with various other bands. Eva is extremely passionate about music and singing and is a patient and caring teacher, eager to assist in each students’ individual needs, goals and inspirations, whilst ensuring that each student is excited and passionate about learning all facets of vocal training and vocal health.