Piano Teacher

Treble Makers Music School Australia

Piano Lessons

SARA–JANE NEEP – VOCALIST/SINGING, PIANO, KEYBOARD AND KEYTAR TEACHER
BEGINNERS/INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED

Sara-Jane Neep is an energetic and driven singer, songwriter, pianist, and music teacher.

She has worked and trained alongside both nationally and internationally acclaimed performing artists and producers. She has been playing and performing professionally in bands for 17 years ranging in all styles from classical to jazz to contemporary styles. Sara-Jane has 3 independent original solo releases under her belt, one of which won her an Arts Tasmania and Triple J amplified award for best contemporary, jazz and/or classical artist of the year.

Sara-Jane studied jazz voice at CQCM (BAJP) before returning to Tasmania to complete her masters (MTEAH). She then recorded her first two independent releases. In 2013 she moved to Melbourne to continue performing, writing, recording and teaching. She is now in the process of writing and producing for her 4th independent solo release.

Through her musical training and experience, Sara-Jane is a highly trained teacher with an academic background who is able to cater to all ages. She covers all learning capabilities from hobbiest to professional. Sara-Jane teaches classical, jazz and contemporary styles.
She is a friendly, patient, supportive and dedicated teacher with a very energetic, positive, upbeat personality. Sara-Jane is excited to be imparting her passion, knowledge and skills in singing, piano, keytar and the music industry to her students.
Her lessons are both driven, focused and fun. She inspires and motivates her students, builds confidence and gives them the tools to achieve their goals to grow as a artist on their own unique music journey.

Sara-Jane is available on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons/evenings.

All teachers encourage our students to perform in our monthly concerts, also they do regular recordings to document their growth as an artist on their music journey. Students feel rewarded seeing these achievements for their hard work and dedication, making TMMSA a unique school.

GENERAL LESSON INFO
We offer music instruction for all ages and abilities from hobbyist to professional. You will Grow as a artist with us and be inspired by our school to reach your goals at your pace. Have fun with our unique teaching approach where you will be motivated to learn more, excel and build confidence. Our teachers will guide you through your music journey.

We offer instruction on drums, guitar, bass, ukelele, keytar, vocals, piano and the keyboard for all styles of music

We are extremely proud of our talented, dedicated teaching staff and our welcoming school.

Our teachers come from a diverse range of music backgrounds as well as all being professional musicians, having real world experience. They all have a wealth of knowledge, are highly skilled, passionate, enthusiastic and are great mentors. All our teachers are very friendly, supportive, caring.

Parents we would like you to know that we provide a safe environment for children and have extra security in place to ease your minds. It is also critical that all our teachers have a “Working with Children” clearance.

Our teachers offer a fun, creative, engaging, informative and personalised approach, with our one on one lesson’s in an inspiring, supportive, encouraging and safe environment. We ensure positive learning experiences and you will learn new skills, reach high levels, stimulate rhythm, coordination and imagination. Anything is possible to achieve with dedication and practice. Every individual has the capability to succeed.

We reconise achievements by encouraging our students to be involved in our monthly concerts and regular recordings for their growth. We have our own stage at the school to perform on, this means students can invite family and friends to see there growth, whilst remaining a completely private show. We see rapid improvement in our students with this regular performance and recording based goal. Students are more focused and motivated to build self esteem and confidence. On their music journey students feel rewarded seeing these achievements for their hard work and dedication, making TMMSA a unique school.

Treble Makers Music School Australia

Treble Makers Music School Australia is a family run business by the energetic professional leaders Gabriel and Georgina Atkinson.

We offer music instruction for all ages and abilities from hobbyist to professional. You will Grow as a artist with us and be inspired by our school to reach your goals at your pace. Have fun with our unique teaching approach where you will be motivated to learn more, excel and build confidence. Our teachers will guide you through your music journey.

We offer instruction on drums, guitar, bass, ukelele, keytar, vocals, piano and the keyboard for all styles of music. First five X 30 minute private lessons for $99 or why not come in and check us out and have a complimentary first lesson. These offers are for a limited time.

We are extremely proud of our talented, dedicated teaching staff and our welcoming school.

Our teachers come from a diverse range of music backgrounds as well as all being professional musicians, having real world experience. They all have a wealth of knowledge, are highly skilled, passionate, enthusiastic and are great mentors. All our teachers are very friendly, supportive, caring.

Parents we would like you to know that we provide a safe environment for children and have extra security in place to ease your minds. It is also critical that all our teachers have a “Working with Children” clearance.

Our teachers offer a fun, creative, engaging, informative and personalised approach, with our one on one lesson’s in an inspiring, supportive, encouraging and safe environment. We ensure positive learning experiences and you will learn new skills, reach high levels, stimulate rhythm, coordination and imagination. Anything is possible to achieve with dedication and practice. Every individual has the capability to succeed.
We reconise achievements by encouraging our students to be involved in our monthly concerts and regular recordings for their growth. We have our own stage at the school to perform on, this means students can invite family and friends to see there growth, whilst remaining a completely private show. We see rapid improvement in our students with this regular performance and recording based goal. Students are more focused and motivated to build self esteem and confidence. On their music journey students feel rewarded seeing these achievements for their hard work and dedication, making TMMSA a unique school.

FOUNDER:
Gabriel Atkinson owner/operator is an accomplished performer and teacher at TMMSA .

Gabe grew up in a musical family, his father is a saxophonist and his mother is a singer, so music is certainly in his blood.

Gabe always loved music since he was very little and started playing guitar at 8 years old and is classically trained. He then found his love for rock and electric guitar and certainly understands the hard work and dedication required to become good. Spending several hours everyday locked in his room practicing and playing music. He had his first band when he was 13 and has been playing professionally since he was 16. He is a natural born performer and feels completely at home on stage.
Gabe is originally from New Zealand and has deep roots in the Australian music community and is well respected. Gabe moved to Australia in his early 20’s with Kiwi rock band Weta, they signed a major deal with Warner Records. This opened the door to extensive touring of Australia and New Zealand, many recordings, film clips and exposure to the national and international industry. Weta’s debut album Geographica reached Platinum sales in New Zealand. The first Weta gig he played, was with Foo Fighters at the Wellington Town Hall. Weta played Big Day Out shows, Offshore Festival, Rocket Festival. Also supported Silverchair, Powderfinger, Shihad, Regurgitator, Jebediah, Magic Dirt, Killing Heidi and played with Motorace, Nitocris and Pre Shrunk on the Triple JJJ Turn Up Your Radio Tour.
In 2007 Gabe was asked to join Grinspoon as a session guitarist on there national tour of Alibis and Other Lies. Spending a year on the road with one of Australia’s greatest rock bands was an extraordinary experience.

Gabe has since been performing professionally, song writing, recording, (including a recording session in the U.S.A with Gina Schock from the Go-Go’s). He also plays, records and writes songs in his own band and does solo gigs. He continues to contribute as a session guitarist and write songs with Local artists.

Gabe has a wealth of knowledge, is an expert in his field with over 25 years of experience in the music industry. Has guided and mentored many ambitious musician’s. His advice is with dedication anyone can become musically developed. Gabe would like to see the live music world stay alive and wants to share his passion for music. This led him to start teaching over 5 years ago and also open TMMSA with his great team of like minded musicians and educators.

He is a great educator and has taught all walks of life and abilities, hobbiest to professional, from very young to retires. His “down to earth” approach has inspired many learners onto their musical journey

He effortlessly communicates the joy of learning music with a sense of fun and humour with his charismatic approach.
He has incredible patience, enthusiasm and dedication. With his wealth of experience and knowledge in all areas of the music world, he assists bringing the thrill and pride of playing guitar to all. Gabe has a lot to offer who desire to learn and brings out the best in all of his students. His lessons are creative, supportive and he encourages students to exceed their expectations, be dedicated and to practice. He also encourages monthly performance on our schools own stage and records his students regularly to show growth. He believes this really helps drive his students and builds confidence. His knowledge of music is very broad and thus he can teach all styles from pop, blues, country, heavy metal, classic rock, r n b, alternative country, hard rock…

His unique approach will help assist you to reach your goals, give you the tools to achieve them and certainly makes your learning experience exciting whilst you grow as an artist on your music journey.

Gabe’s wife Georgina (nick named Gigi) has had a life long love for music but she doesn’t play any instruments. She has been involved in the entertainment industry for over 18 years. During this time she worked for Australian radio network Mix 101.1 and Gold 104.3 where she was on air, doing live crosses/recordings and was involved in many events where she also worked with bands. Gigi was on Channel V tours around Australia traveling with lots of different bands and has managed artists. She has an understanding of the music industry through this experience. She also has a business background with management and marketing. Outstanding customers service skills and is very friendly, energetic and driven. Gigi will be more than happy to assist you with anything you may need to enquire about at TMMSA.

Together Gabe and Gigi create a very professional team and look forward to you starting your music journey at TMMSA.

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