Lessons
Stuart Lehman-Brown
(guitar, ukulele, electric bass, upright bass)
Over the past 20 years, Stuart has worked as a performer, producer, and teacher throughout the Bay Area. Since earning a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music, he has performed in rock, jazz, and folk bands at venues including The Great American Music Hall, Yoshi’s, and Shoreline Amphitheater. Stuart has been a guitar, bass, and ukulele instructor at Marin Music Center for over 10 years, teaching hundreds of students.
Stash Wyslouch
(guitar, mandolin)
Stash Wyslouch has been teaching, recording and performing music for the past 20 years. Despite now mostly working as a bluegrass and americana guitarist, he got his start playing in heavy metal bands then took a left turn while completing his performance degree at the Berklee college of Music to study Jazz and improvisation.
When teaching, no style is off-limits. Stash’s teaching style focuses on building blocks and cutting to the essence of whatever piece of music is being digested. Stash toured for many years in bluegrass groups The Deadly Gentlemen, Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters and The Jacob Jolliff Band. He has shared the stage with Billy Strings, David Grisman and the Yonder Mountain String Band.
Jeff Rosen
(drums)
Jeff Rosen has been teaching drums in Marin County for 30 years. He earned his A.A. degree in Music from College of Marin, and in addition he has studied drumming with master teachers Chuck Brown, Tony Williams, Atma Anur and Alan Hall where he learned to play a myriad of different styles including rock, jazz, funk and orchestral.
Jeff has performed in clubs all throughout the bay area with such acts as The Nuns, Echo Park, and Pocket Change, and still actively plays in the Bay Area music scene.
Jeff teaches the fundamentals of technique, reading, transcribing and rhythm concepts that are important for today’s modern drummer.
Mick Berry
(drums)
Cited by the San Francisco Chronicle as a "local phenom," Mick Berry has been playing drums for over 35 years. Growing up in the birthplace of Jazz, Mick has studied with New Orleans drumming legends James Black and John Vidacovich. Additional education includes classical percussion studies with Richard O'Donnell (principal percussionist with the St. Louis Symphony for over 40 years), Afro-Cuban drumming with the legendary Walfredo Reyes, Sr., and Latin music studies with Latin percussionist, Michael Spiro.
After leaving the Berklee College of Music in 1977, Mick toured for several years in over two-dozen bands across the United States, Canada and Mexico. Notable performing/drumming credits to date include: saxophone master Craig Handy of Mingus Dynasty, New Orleans piano virtuoso Henry Butler, Eddie Henderson (trumpeter for Elvin Jones), Michael Wolff (former band leader for the Arsenio Hall show), and many more. Drumming recording credits include the first two studio CDs by Joti (with members of Tower of Power) and the second CD by Burgess Shale.
Teaching credits include The Academy for Contemporary Music in Guildford, England, The California Shakespeare Festival, The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Haight Ashbury Music Center in San Francisco and Marin Music Center in Novato, California.
In addition to having an ongoing private clientele of over thirty five drumming students, Mick still manages to play in well over half a dozen bands on a regular basis, including Who Too (The SF Bay Area’s premier Who tribute band), Offbeats (original Rock, Ska and Reggae), The Adam Stein Band (original progressive rock), pianist Richard Crook (original Jazz), Jazz Trek (Jazz standards) and The Michael Robinson Band (original blues).
Sandy Geller
(piano, vocals)
Sandy is an alumnus of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music as well as the University of Wisconsin. She has taught piano and voice for over 25 years and is a former instructor at the Bluebear School of Music in San Francisco. Sandy currently performs locally with her own jazz trio and accompanies the Unitarian Universalist Church choir.