Andrew Mcgregor
Andrew is one of our highly skilled guitar players with over 15 years experience. He has a diploma in Rock, Jazz and Commercial music from Whitirea Polytechnic and currently plays in a popular wellington band called RED DAWN. His passion for playing the guitar comes from growing up listening to artist such as Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix and in particular Van Halen.

“Seeing the students progress and reiterate the knowledge and skills I have taught them is the most enjoyable part of teaching for me”.
Anton Bitossi
Anton is an extremely experienced guitar player and has been playing/teaching for 14 years. He has a certificate in Rock, Jazz and Commercial Music from Whitirea Polytechnic.

Anton is a huge fan of Metal and currently plays in 2 Metal covers bands – DFH and DENY as well as playing in the popular pub covers band THE BUSINESS.

“Finding a student’s favorite song and teaching them how to play it is one of the best parts of teaching for me – above all I just want them to have fun!”
Ben Chapman
Ben has been playing the drums for over 20 years, and they have taken him all over the country and to Australia. He has been teaching for 11 years and also attended Whitireia Polytechnic.

He currently performs with fellow tutor Adrian Win in the Wellington band Libido FM, Saving Strangers and various other projects keep him busy most of the time.

The best part about being a tutor is seeing when a student finally gets the hang of something they have been working on for sometime, and realising that its was'nt as hard as they thought it was...
Dave Clare
Dave has been playing the drums for 20 years and teaching for 10 years. He is the founder and director of Kick Start Music Studios and has Batchelor of Music degree from Massey University.

Dave has been playing in bands around wellington for 10 years and currently plays in the popular pub band THE BUSINESS.
Although he spends more time in the office than the classroom these days he still enjoys teaching kids to drum like the rockstars!

“The most enjoyable part of teaching for me is when I find a student who has real natural talent for drums. If I teach them everything I know and they practice hard the possibilities are endless.”