ANDY STOTT: COURSE DIRECTOR
Andy has worked as a session drummer and percussionist in a wide variety of musical genres, including jazz orchestras, brass bands, symphony orchestras, choirs, musical theatre pit orchestras and rock and pop bands. His performing career developed into working as a freelance Musical Director and in that role he has appeared on the international stage performing with singers and musicians across the UK and in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Australia and America. In 1998, Andy formed his own production company, Purple Patch Productions, working extensively in the field of musical theatre. Production credits include West Side Story, Les Miserables, Evita, Grease, Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, STOMP and The Full Monty. In 2001 Andy was a producer and the musical supervisor for the first UK tour and West End run of the award-winning Broadway musical RENT.

BRYAN HARGREAVES
Bryan is an experienced and highly- skilled professional drummer and educator. He has worked with Heather Small and M People as a regular band member since 2003, touring the world and appearing on both radio and television. He has also worked with Snake Davis (Lisa Stansfield, Take That), Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), Ricky Tomlinson (Actor/ Musician) andMambito (Latin Jazz Orchestra). His television and radio work includes Michael Parkinson Show, Top Of The Pops, GMTV, Songs Of Praise, This Is Your Life and the Jonathon Ross Show.

NEIL YATES
Neil is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger with over 20 years professional experience and with his own record label. He has undertaken session work for the Lighthouse Family, Supergrass, Alison Moyet, Will Young, Brand New Heavies,Us3, Matt Bianco, Marillion, Gregory Isaacs, Black Grape, Ben Folds 5, Robbie Williams with many TV appearances including Top of the Pops, Later with Jools, T.F.I. Friday and White Room.

MAURICIO PAULY
Mauricio is an exceptionally talented bass player who has worked and toured extensively in Central America, the United States and Europe. He is a founding member of the ÁltaVoz Ensemble, a group of Latin-American composers and his music has been performed in Costa Rica, USA, Hungary, Spain, Mexico, Russia and the UK. He has won numerous international prizes for his composition work. As a bass player, singer and songwriter, he has led his band Bruno Porter to release two albums and tour most of Costa Rica and Central America. As a session player he toured Central America with Costa Rica's veteran rockers Café con Leche, recorded two albums and toured with pianist/composer Manuel Obregón, and wrote songs for Costa Rica's biggest act, Gandhi. He also worked as a freelance bass player in Miami. He has taught music at Boston University and at the University of Manchester.

JOHNNY HEYES
Currently working as guitarist for Mica Paris, as the resident band at the Indigo venue in the O2 Arena in London, Johnny is an experienced session guitarist. A graduate of Leeds College of Music, where he was awarded the Eric Kershaw Memorial prize for plectrum guitar, Johnny is also a member of jazz ensemble, Badbone & Co. Led by trombonist Dennis Rollins (of the Maceo Parker band, Jamiroquai and Blur), Badbone & Co. won the 2006 BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best Band’. They have performed at Glastonbury on the Jazz/World Stage and live on Radio 2 from the Jazz Tent. They have also performed at WOMAD, The Toronto IAJE Jazz Conference, and many jazz festivals worldwide.

DANE CHALFIN
Dane Chalfin is one of the UK's leading non-classical voice specialists. His clients include signed artists, TV and film actors (Peter Kay, Coronation Street, Emmerdale), major theatrical productions (Cats, Mamma Mia, Saturday Night Fever etc.) and tours, record labels and management companies, educational establishments and business people. He is one of a select few voice practitioners who officially consult with the NHS to help rehabilitate professional voice-users who have had a voice injury. He provides training for singing teachers and vocal coaches and has written voice programmes for top arts universities. Dane is a director of The British Voice Association and is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Vocal Technique at Leeds College of Music.

MATT STEELE
Matt is a keyboard player/producer, whose 12 year career in the music industry has taken him touring over the world in some of the most illustrious venues to appearances on some of the most legendary TV shows. Live/studio credits include: The Brand New Heavies, Errol Brown (Hot Chocolate), Shazney Lewis (All Saints), Swing out Sister, Cleopatra, Demis Roussos, Heather Small, Ruby Turner, and Finlay Quay. As a producer and trained orchestrator, Matt is part of the respected Jersey St. production team, who have sold over 100,000 records as writers/producers, on a range of cool underground labels such as Hed Kandi, Defected, Junior, Yellow and Naked Music. This has recently led to him working on media-based productions, including music for two short films on Channel 4 and projects for ITV, BBC 1 and BBC 2.

HANNAH JACKSON
Hannah has undertaken vocal and keys session work for a variety of artists including The Gorrilaz and Andy Smith and has performed at Glastonbury Festival, Manchester Apollo and many other UK venues. She has also undertaken session work for TV adverts. She is the managing director of Massive UK which is a music agency, label and events company promoting the creative arts in the north.

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