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Mark Kelly is our guitar and drum tutor. Mark has played guitar for more years than he cares to remember. Along the way he also played, drums, ukulele, and bass. Mark studied Popular music at Salford university and completed a PGCE at MMU. His main teaching experience has been 20 years in secondary education. Mark …

Sarah Keen is our piano, bassoon and music theory tutor. Since graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music with her Master’s degree, Sarah has been working as a freelance musician, teaching piano, bassoon, and music theory. When not teaching she regularly plays with several ensembles around Manchester including Northern Film Orchestra. She has also …

Mr Jonathan Jones is our piano, saxophone, oboe and clarinet tutor. Jon was born and raised in Cornelly, South Wales. He started learning Piano at the age of 11, before later attending the junior department of the Royal Welsh College of Music in Cardiff. At 16, Jon successfully auditioned for the National Youth Orchestra of …

Edgar Divver is our violin, piano and saxophone tutor. Edgar is an award-winning composer and educator from London who has had works performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, BBC Singers, Psappha and The Ossian Ensemble, among others. He studied at both the University of Birmingham and then at the Royal Northern College of Music, staying …

Billy Proctor is a guitar tutor who is happy to teach all ability levels on any form of Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Ukelele, Mandolin or Balalaika and has been doing so throughout his studies through to the present day. Billy first started playing classical guitar with his father at the age of six and then started …

Mary Stockley is one of our piano and flute tutors. Mary has been a music teacher for over 20 years. She studied classical music with recorder and harpsichord (bachelor of music) in Cork School of Music graduating in 2004. Mary has played with the Manchester recorder orchestra, she was also guest soloist with East Cork …