Meet our Teachers
Our teachers are among the most talented in the industry.
It would be our pleasure to put our extensive experience to work for you and your family!
It would be our pleasure to put our extensive experience to work for you and your family!
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Camila Milla, BMusGuitar, Piano, Composition
Camila is a Chilean guitarist, composer, and educator. She started playing guitar at thirteen years old and performed on various stages in her home country. She started teaching in her second year of music school, and during this time, she began to receive invitations to collaborate in projects including rock bands, contemporary music festivals, and composing for short films and animation. After a few years of teaching, she became the head guitar teacher in a music academy, teaching all ages. At the same time she started a Bachelor in Education so she could also work as a secondary school teacher. Camila has also been pursuing a career as a solo artist and engaging her audience through social media. In 2018 Ibanez Guitars made Camila part of their family giving her the opportunity to be one of the first women from South America to be featured in their artists catalogue.
She enjoys teaching all kinds of music styles which reflect her students' interests; motivating them to exercise their technique and understand the discipline in a close and entertaining way. In this way she helps her students build their self confidence and encourages them to be curious and creative. Sharing her passion for music, Camila feels very lucky to be able to teach and learn from her students every day. |
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Kai LeePiano, Guitar, Voice
Kai has had an enriching and engaging musical upbringing working with and learning from many world class musicians, directors, and arts organizations. This provided him with incredible opportunities for personal growth and connection with people. Empowering his students to have such opportunities of their own is his greatest passion in life. Kai has had the pleasure of working with hundreds of children and amateur musicians as a counsellor at the Canadian Opera Company’s educational programs, performed as a lead in many choirs and various roles in opera companies over the years. In addition, he has to taught privately and in a classroom environments over a variety of subjects. Having such a diverse educational and musical background has allowed Kai develop the flexibility to accommodate the needs and interests of his students in order to set them up for success in the way that works the best for them. By breaking down the vast landscape of music into its simplest components and building tools around them to explore music and the creative process, students become empowered to engage with the world creatively and cultivate their interests and talents with excitement and drive. When Kai is not teaching students, he teaches himself! Kai enjoys learning languages, coding, gardening, sewing, calligraphy, illustration, and reading.
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Luis Figueroa, BMusGuitar, Drums, Electronic MusicAt an early age Luis decided that music was going to be the path he was going to choose as a career. Beginning his journey with the drums at 9 years of age, he quickly decided that the guitar should be his next challenge. All happening at once, he joins the school band, the church choir, the jazz combo, the funk and punk bands with his friends, all of these elements making up his overall musical integrity.
Fast forward to today, having worked on over a dozen albums and projects, and having 9 years of teaching under his belt with post-secondary education coming from the renowned Jazz program at Humber college in Toronto majoring in percussion, Luis refines his techniques. Recently getting on board with Featherstone Music to teach guitar full time there is no sign of Luis slowing down. Luis finds his passion in the production of music electronically and organically but always finds time for session work, teaching and his country/folk rock outfit "The Idaho Stop" |
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Chris Tanaka-Mann, BEd
Piano, Guitar, Voice
Christopher Tanaka-Mann is a musician, educator, arranger, vocal coach, clinician, and performing artist. While specializing in voice, Chris also plays piano and guitar. As a teacher, Chris has taught voice, piano, and guitar privately, as well as English, music, and philosophy at the secondary school level. He is a proud member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, singing with several different groups that specialize in the style. He has had the opportunity to lead choruses and music programs around Ontario.
As a performing artist, Chris is most notably the tenor of Yonge Guns, The quartet performs around Ontario and the world, competing in the Barbershop Harmony Society’s quartet contests regularly. Most recently, Yonge Guns won the provincial competition, and now sets its sights on representing Ontario and Canada in the International Quartet Contest! Chris teaches voice and performance privately, as well as providing beginner piano and guitar lessons. He recently worked as a Singing Ambassador for the Waterfront Business Improvement Area, and now works for Taddle Creek Montessori School and also as a nanny for a private family. He is a certified Ontario Secondary teacher. |
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Gabe Girard
Piano, Violin, Cello, Guitar, DrumsGabe is a multi-instrumentalist teacher and performer from Halifax Nova Scotia. Teaching violin, guitar, piano and drums, he has a wealth of experience in Halifax, Toronto and Montreal. After studying classical percussion at Dalhousie University, he moved to Toronto to study music at Humber College, receiving his degree in 2013. Along the way, Gabe has toured and performed with a wide variety of bands and recorded at some of Toronto’s finest studios including Revolution Recording, Glenn Gould Studios and Humber College studios. Gabe's teaching philosophy is that each student is different, and should be taught in a way that is aligned with their personal values, interests, goals and dreams. Gabe excels at finding what students are passionate about and matching repertoire to their specific needs Gabe is also fluent in French and offers music lessons to French Immersion students. |
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