Gemma Stilwell

With 15 years teaching experience and over 30+ schools behind her, she is highly regarded within her sector and feels just at home teaching 1-2-1 lessons in secondary schools, as a class of primary school children.

Alongside numerous music qualifications including four ‘grade 8’ certificates, Gemma holds a BA (Hons) in Music from the University of Southampton with first class performing marks, and a First Class Masters degree in ‘The Teaching Musician’ from the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire. This course focussed on the pedagogy, learning theories and current ‘best practices’ within the sector, and is the only course of its kind in the UK.

Gemma has taught thousands of students to date, entering 250+ students into exams all with 100% pass rate at merit or above with an average mark of 85%.

As an accredited RSL ‘Rockschool’ examiner herself, she regularly travels across the country and abroad examining hundreds of students each year. Alongside teaching and examining Gemma performs with covers band ‘Cover Craft’, acoustic duo ‘Whitney and Stilwell’, ‘Southampton Grad Band’ as well as pit band and recording sessions.

Outside of teaching, Gemma is an avid cyclist and loves nothing more than planning the next adventure to the far flung places around the world!

Dror Margalith

Dror has been a full-time professional musician for the last 20 years, involved in various fields of the music industry, now looking to pass on the knowledge attained to the next generation. Dror performs on piano and keyboards, composes music for films and theatre, and is an expert in Logic Pro and Ableton, with his own home recording studio.

He teaches both Classical and Rock/Pop piano, working with total beginners as well as advanced students, and is happy to tailor the lessons towards the ABRSM or The Rock School exams.

Dror studied classical piano for 12 years privately, as well as harmony and music theory for 3 years at Rimon College of Jazz. Later on, he studied film scoring for 2 years at the UCLA in California.

Alongside these diplomas in Jazz and film scoring, Dror holds a Grade 8 in classical piano, Grade 7 in music theory, and an MA in Music Production.

This diverse mix of skills and expertise including;  classical, rock, jazz, composing, arranging and music production, makes Dror an eclectic musician. He is able to create interesting and challenging music lessons reflecting real life situations, giving students more practical feedback on their work.

Dror currently teaches on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings.