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Professional Musicians

Maria Ahearn - Rupert Cheek - Aaron Child - Howard Fredrics - Lori Fredrics - Sergio Guimar - David Millea - yournamehere?

Maria Ahearn

BMus Kingston Uni 2004-07
Singer
singing teacher

Rupert Cheek

Founder of Concert4Kingston. Pianist, drummer, piano teacher, composer.

Youth Music Tutor: Barnfield Youth Centre Jan – April 2007

Pianist: Sheen Mount Primary School Jan – July 05
Transit Station; London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Copenhagen - Tanzmedia (dance)/ Sam Sweeting (perf)/ Ric Wende (music)

Composer: ‘Nature’ (Kingston Uni student, 06) - The Spotter (LFA students, 05) - Death (G)row (Right Charlie Prods, 04)

Drummer: High Drive - Mars Fortress

BMus, Roehampton, ’99-’03
PG Cert, Composition for Film & TV, Kingston Uni, 02-03
CACHE level 2 Playwork, North Kingston Centre, ’07

Aaron Child

Works at Banquet Records (Kingston)
DJ / DJ teacher
Worked at record labels since leaving uni

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Dr Howard Fredrics

Former music lecturer at Kingston Uni,Composer:

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"slashingly discordant" ( LA Times ) & "marvellously gothic" (Array).

Solo, chamber, orchestral, opera, art song, theatre, film/TV, computer games, multimedia installation, dance. His music has been performed in The Purcell Room at South Bank (London), The Bloomsbury Theatre (London), Janacek Hall (Prague), Seoul Opera (Korea), Banff Centre (Canada), The Kennedy Center (Washington), and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki). He he collaborated with poets, Elsa Grave and Charles Bukowski, author/librettist, Jacob Sager Weinstein and director, Jessica Kubzansky.

Recent multimedia opera, The Whitechapel Whirlwind , is largely based on the life of his cousin, World Jr. Welterweight and British Lightweight boxing champion, Jack 'Kid' Berg (1909-1991).

Fulbright Grant, Emmy and Telly Awards, ASCAP Awards, a British AHRC Grant, and prizes in the Bourges, SEAMUS, Musica Nova, Luigi Russolo and Tampa Bay Composers' Forum competitions, his works are published by Franklin-Douglass Music, Jomar Press and Auracle Music, and are recorded on the Centaur, SEAMUS/EAM, HEAR, ICMC/DIEM, Ottava and Omnimusic labels.

www.howardfredrics.com/howard.html

Lori Joachim Fredrics

Former music leacturer at Kingston Uni - singer, teacher

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Ms. Fredrics brings 20 years of private and university level teaching experience to the studio. Students have included undergraduate and post graduate level singers, pop and Broadway stage veterans and beginners. Her teaching style is based on the principles of traditional bel canto-Italian for beautiful singing. This technique promotes a healthly, vibrant flexible voice. Singers wishing to achieve a resonant tone suported on the breath will find these techniques helpful in reaching these goals. As far as style is concerned, Lori sings, coaches and understands a diverse variety of music and can help you apply the technique to a wide variety of styles.

BMus in Music Management William Paterson University

MMus in Voice Performance Univerity of Texas at Austin

She has taught singing on faculty at William Paterson University, Texas A&M University, Kingston University of London and has served as an applied music consultant for Brown University of Providence RI.

Jazz singers who would like to aquire a strong healthy technique including breathing, breath support, resonance, range extension to improve the tone of your voice and it's functioning. If you are a professional jazz singer who feels more comfortable in up tempo tunes because ballads expose your voice in less flattering ways, you may wish to explore gaining some assistance from Lori . She is one of the rare experts who understands speech-level snging from th Italian "parlando" basis of bel canto. Have a listen to the sound clips on http://www.auraclemusic.co.uk/ lori_joachim_fredrics.html and decide for yourself whether you think Lori can improve your voice without disturbing your style. Classical singers wishing to explore jazz styles learn how to adjust their technique to encompass a more naturalistic style also assisted.(adapted from www.singing-teachers.co.uk)

Sergio Guimar

BA Kingston Uni 2007-10
M usic producer
S ound technician

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Robin Merrett

BMus Kingston Uni 2005-08
Sax player
Composer

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David Millea

Music technology teacher since 2002

Cubase®, Logic®, Reason®, Ableton Live®, Garageband®, Sibelius®

Experience includes Kingston Music Service, Hampton School, Hounslow Adult Education, University of East London

Education includes City & Guilds 7407 ‘Teacher Training’, BA ‘Recording Arts’, Access to Music ‘Music Facilitator’,
Hackney Music Development Trust - Music Business/Artist Management/Setting Up An Independent Label.