FACULTY

Learn from the CMI Maestros in our unique educational environment, students are taught by the very best music industry professionals who are out there, doing it for real, pushing creative boundaries. With a large pool of dedicated, highly qualified and experienced faculty members, we maintain an optimal student-faculty ratio to attend every student with extra care.
Our music teachers have been carefully screened and chosen from hundreds of applicants to bring you the finest quality of music lessons. Here are some factors we look for: A fun positive personality, intuition and sensitivity, flexibility in teaching approach, years of experience, and university training from Top Music School or Internationally Recognised Board.
We are sensitive to the fact that not everyone learns through the same method. Our instructors will make a plan to help you or your child learn music through the songs you love, while introducing all the essentials of good technique along the way. This collection of working musicians represents all areas of the world of music — Award Winning Concert Artists, Chamber Musicians, Session Recording Artists, & Virtuoso Composers.
CMI faculty walks an extra mile to ensure that you do not miss getting the highest benchmark in the graded music examinations.

MEET THE MASTERS

  • Jatin Kapoor | Artistic Director / Guitar

    Jatin Kapoor | Artistic Director / Guitar

    Jatin Kapoor is the GPM Guitar Asia Pacific Champion & a prolific performer whose intoxicating cocktail of influences spans the outer reaches of funk, fusion, rock and myriad genres. His soulful guitar melodies and his unconventional chord lines has the ability to blow everyone's minds and hearts to the core! His audience often refers to his performances as very melodious and energetic. He has redefined what it means to be a virtuoso guitarist. His flawless technical ability is delicately balanced with a penchant for soulful and expressive bends. He takes a practical no-holds-barred approach to teaching, educating students on how to use musical tools and devices in fascinating and pragmatic ways.

  • Callum Drum Teacher

    Callum | Drums

    Callum started playing drums at the age of 10 and started gigging regularly around the UK in his early teens. With his love for all different styles of music, Callum moved to London in 2015 to expend his musical language and network. From 2015-2018, Callum took on a Bmus (Degree) in Popular Music performance at BIMM London/London College of Music. In 2019 he started his Jazz Mmus at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Being a performer and gigging regularly is something that Callum has loved from a young age. But as of recent years, Callum’s growth and passion for teaching and sharing knowledge in drumming is something he deeply believes in and values to his skills as a musician.

  •  Lehlin Vocal Teacher

    Lehlin | Vocals

    Lehlin is a British-born Singaporean operatic soprano. She is currently under a scholarship for her PGCE Secondary Music with Specialist Instrumental Teaching (QTS). She has completed her PGdip in Advanced Studies in Musical Performance, Master of Music and Bachelor of Music (with Honors) at the Royal Northern College of Music.

    Lehlin has experience teaching singing in different styles (classical, musical theatre and pop), music in schools, small groups and one-to-one classes, and students of all ages (young to adults). She believes in sharing her passion and knowledge of music to others.

  • Adriano | Guitar

    Adriano | Guitar

    Adriano’s compositional approach is rooted in jazz tradition but embraces elements from the pop/rock world too. Radiohead, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett and Led Zeppelin are the main artists that shaped Adriano’s musical identity. Being an active member of the London jazz scene, he performed with the contemporary jazz band Gemini Trio and other artists at Pizza Express Soho, Vortex Jazz Club, Kansas Smitty’s, Hampstead Jazz Club just to name a few. Adriano is currently attending his final year of Master at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

  • Julian / Piano

    Julian started playing the piano when he was six. He commenced formal piano studies at sixteen with Murray McLachlan at Chetham’s School of music in Manchester and subsequently studied at the Royal Northern College of Music for a Bachelor of Music (Hons). After that he studied with Dina Parakhina at the RNCM for a Master of Music degree and with Ronan O’Hora and Martin Roscoe at the Guildhall School of Music. He has also had masterclasses from Peter Donohoe, Andrei Gavrilov and Andras Schiff.
    Julian has won many prizes including the RNCM Gold Medal (2011), theConcerto auditions at the RNCM (2010), William Mathias Festival Piano Competition (2009), Beethoven Junior Inter-Collegiate UK Competition (2008) and European Piano Teachers Association UK Piano Competition (2007).
    Julian’s future engagements include performances in Manchester, Worksop, India and Germany.

  • Mariana Farah | Piano

    Mariana Farah is a professional pianist and piano teacher. Her studies, artistic activity and work as a teacher has taken place both in Latin American and European environment. She completed postgraduate piano performance studies at the Autonomous University of Mexico and the Conservatory of Barcelona. She studied with Monique Rasetti, Eunice Padilla, Paolo Mello, Salvador Ojeda and Eugenia Arús just to name a few. She also worked together with the recognized Mexican composer Horacio Uribe giving public performances of his original music.

    She recently finished Dalcroze’s Training Bachelor that has expanded horizons in the fields of pedagogy, musical composition and opened a wide range of activity participating as a piano accompanist and arranger together with theatrical shows and Eurythmics performances.

  • Eduardo | Guitar Teacher

    Eduardo | Guitar

    Eduardo is a multi-awarded guitarist that has established himself as one of his generation’s leading musicians in Brazil. He holds a Bachelor of Music with honors from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), where he studied with Paulo Inda. In 2019, he moved to São Paulo (Brazil) after he was chosen among 200 Brazilian applicants as the Magda Tagliaferro Scholar, which is a sponsorship provided by Cultura Artística Foundation for young Brazilian musicians.

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