Located in Christchurch, New Zealand. Lessons also available online by Zoom
Teaching and performing music became a fulltime thing in 1984, joining popular NZ rock band, “The Velvettes” – with Steve Apirana, Wally Tairakena, and Graham Flaws. The band played many of the big music festival stages in The States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. From 1992, corporate functions, weddings, vineyard performances, and a lot of touring followed while teaming up with Kaye Grenon – ‘Kit and Kaye’, later ‘de Grenon’. Together, also composing, performing, and producing many well known jingles for radio and TV.
1994 brought a Silver Scroll/NZ Music Awards nomination for Kit Grenon’s compositions and work on ‘His Love’ (Monica O’Hagan). In 2017, a publishing deal was signed with Motion Focus Music (MFM), – writing and recording production music for TV and film, as ‘Konstruct Music Production’. Placements are also signed with Warner Music, Perpetual Music, and Hens Teeth Music.
A person focused teaching style sees students and performers confident, motivated, and empowered to take ownership of their learning and eventually teach themselves. Teaching experience has also included 13 years working in tertiary education as a Performance Coordinator of a degree programme and tutoring in songwriting, guitar, ensemble, music theory, and improvisation for certificate to degree programme levels. Located in Christchurch, NZ, lessons are also available online.
Getting in touch
Kaye will be your first point of contact setting up lesson slots and finding the best pricing plan for you. Kaye is also a professional musician and holds a Masters degree in music and postgraduate qualifications in education. She has led a tertiary music degree and also lectured in many topics including, music education, industry business, voice, theology, research method, music history and culture and ensembles. Prior to working in the tertiary sector, Kaye taught voice from a home studio and from several schools in Christchurch and Melbourne Australia. She also wrote, performed and produced a significant number of advertising jingles and has produced studio work for other musician’s projects.
