OUR TUTORS
Julian Brady Dip.lcm (td) Guitar and Bass
Julian is our ‘head tutor’ and one of the proprietors of the school. Julian is a professional musician, teaching guitar, bass and drums at schools and privately.. He is the New Zealand representative of the Registry of Guitar Tutors, and is responsible for organising the annual London Collage of Music examinations in New Zealand. Julian’s main
work is taking students through the grades and diplomas of the London School of music. Julian has been a finalist in the Registry of Guitar Tutors ‘Tutor of the year’ award for two consecutive years (2007 and 2008). A Registry of Guitars profile has been published and is viewable by Googling ‘Teacher Feature Julian Brady’ . UK born and raised, Julian worked for
5 years for the Hereford instrumental service, and many years teaching at schools before coming to NZ, where he took up work at the Auckland school of rock, running the Weekend Warriors course for adult musicians.

Angela Leslie - Piano tutor. Leslie has a wonderful way with the youngsters and is a devoted piano tutor. Trinity Grades for Piano/Keys available. Luke Bowring - Luke plays guitar and drums, has attended Mainz in Auckland and plays with a duo with Taylah Barker. Luke is our extraordinarily enthusiastic drum tutor and has rave reviews from young a old alike. Many of our youngsters are also sitting Trinity Grades for drums.

Jo Laird - Vocals
Throughout the last 18 years Jo has performed as a freelance musician in New Zealand, singing, composing and playing guitar. Jo has composed several musicals for The Magic Playhouse Theatre company which have been performed nationwide, and sold many c.d.s of original music from the shows. Her experience vocally spans many genres of music from Jazz, folk, rock, pop. She currently is the vocalist for local Kerikeri band, Scarlet Fever and has an originals band, Luna Chix. Jo has been steering her students through Trinity vocal exams over the past 3 years. Claire Gordon
My background is varied! I worked for 23 years in the City of London as a Director of a firm of stockbrokers. I retrained as both a jeweller/designer and counsellor/coach and emigrated to New Zealand for a less frenetic lifestyle. I am an NLP Master Practitioner, a Mind/Body integration Coach, HNLP Life Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist. My passion is in helping people of all ages to make the most of their lives. Bringing together my ‘heart- work’ of coaching, working with Youth and music, enabled me to create the Be Free & Play Music! youth programme, which provides mentoring through Music. The results of the programme encouraged Julian and I to open The Music Place with the aim of making music available to everyone in our community. My role is best described as a Facilitator, both in terms of the Youth Programme, Coaching and running The Music Place. The greatest reward is seeing the smile on student’s faces as they leave their lessons. I am also a Photographer - so lucky to be involved in our creative community,
Whilst I am ‘multi-tasking’ best way to contact is via mobile during the day and landline, evenings. Contact details below
Claire Gordon ‘Facilitator’, The Music Place! Contact: [email protected] Tel: 09 407 1506 (evenings), 021 883 616
