James Baker is an award winning musical director and accomplished contemporary keyboardist. From recording sessions, to live gigs, cabarets, and music theatre, James’ wealth of experience shines through in his playing and his interactions with students.

With a keen understanding of industry required skills, James endeavours to help students understand modern keyboard techniques, functional chord theory, and improvisation to allow them to flourish into the best possible contemporary musicians.

James works with students to bring out their personal musicality. Whilst he works with every student to develop a solid note reading literacy, there is a much heavier focus on musical theory principles – specifically the interaction of melody, harmony, and rhythm. In short, his experience as a jazz pianist places less focus on the “dots on the page”, and more on creating beautiful, soulful music.

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023

Tom is an accomplished bass player, and has been a fixture of Wagga’s music scene for over a decade. Having first picked up a bass 15 years ago, he has been involved in a multitude of performances including School Spectacular, Mamma Mia, Oliver, Hairspray and supporting The Rubens as part of band Le Ghouls. Tom currently helps guide HSC music students through their HSC performances as part of the Kildare HSC band.

Tom’s musical philosophy focuses on what makes the song tick, and what can be done to help the musicians around him shine. Tom’s students learn to approach music from this angle to give them an understanding of not only what makes someone a good player, but also what makes someone a good musician.

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023

Nathan is a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter with a wealth of industry experience. He was previously in the top 36 of the APRA Professional Development Awards for songwriting, is a 2 times grand finalist of Toyota Star Maker, has featured on X Factor, Young Talent Time, and seasons 3 and 5 of The Voice (Team Madden), graduated from the Talent Development Project (2011) and Academy of Country Music (2011) featured as contestant on Young Talent Time (2011), and has been mentored by Keith Urban.

Nathan works with his students to build on vocal techniques, stylistic approaches, stage craft, and confidence.

We are currently at capacity across all our teachers, and are no longer accepting students for our waiting lists for the remainder of 2023