Matt has been working as a session musician in London for 10 years and has recently returned to the borders to start teaching music again.
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Why choose us?
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Choose your instrument
Schools Workshops
We offer a variety of workshops for schools
Our tutors
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Vocals
Charlotte James
Charlotte has recently moved to the Borders from London where she worked for Sony Music. She is also a professional vocalist, her most recent work was singing background vocals for Josh Groban in Hyde Park, London.
Guitar
Lewis Heatlie
Lewis takes his influences in music from rock and blues. He works as a session musician in Scotland.
Drums
Andrew Scott
After studying at Berklee College in America, Andrew is now based in Edinburgh and is a busy session drummer who has toured with guitarist Paul Gilbert and blues rock band King King. He is an artist for Mapex, Code and Paiste.
Production Courses
We offer training in a variety of software packages for music production
Music for all ages
Music for everyone
We don’t just teach younger learners, we also offer lessons to adults. We offer lessons for adult beginners and also adults who may have had learned piano when they were younger and are looking to refresh their playing.
Pre-Professional Music
Advance your musicianship
Our staff here at Borders School of Music are experienced musicians and will offer help and advice in preparing for a career in music. We can help fine tune your musicianship and hone your skills. Perhaps you are preparing for an audition and need some pointers and coaching with your pieces?
Production Courses
Production and Software Courses
We offer software courses, learning how to operate industry standard, digital audio workstations, such as Logic Pro X and Ableton Live and the notation software Sibelius. We have also recently launched a course in Sound Engineering, get in touch for more details.
Matt’s the best piano teacher ever. My daughter loved his lessons, his lessons are fun, he is encouraging and kind. We couldn’t of wished for better.
Estelle Grindell
Parent
Robbie’s been having piano lessons with Matt for a couple of months now and absolutely loves it. He had his first virtual class last night – he continued to learn, and to laugh.😀 This is a fantastic way to have kids continuing to learn a wonderful life skill whilst all this is going on.
Lisa Ainslie
Parent
Finlay has his first virtual lesson this week! So glad we can continue music lessons!
Claire Karr
Parent
Rebekahs amazing piano teacher and Matthews drum teacher, currently playing for Andrea Bocelli on Michael MacIntyre! Brilliant……thank you for setting up such inspiring lessons Matt.
Anna Cove
Parent
