Welcome to Rhythmix Music

Ian Barnett
Ian was born at a very early age, ran the school choir at 16, turned professional in 1982 and toured extensively playing guitar. He has directed gospel bands, pantomime tours, played in rock n roll, blues, dance, folk, and country and western bands in pubs and clubs all over the south east. Ian teaches guitar privately and at a local special needs school, is a festival and events organizer as well as musical director for a gospel band. He founded and still runs Make Waves, a Rhythmix project which supports young rock musicians in the Hastings area, which has helped over 250 young people since it conception.

Gary Day www.gardenofmusic.net www.myspace.com/garyrday
Gary Day is a Northern Irish Community Musician/Arts Award Adviser, who is currently delivering music (technology, rock/pop) workshops to people of all ages, and abilities throughout London. Gary has been working in the field of Community Music since 2001, and most of his experience has been in working with people with disabilities. Gary is also a busy songwriter.  He records, and performs live on a regular basis.

Graham Dowdallwww.gagarin.org.uk www.myspace.com/ggrn
Graham Dowdall is a very experienced musician and workshop leader.  Over the last twenty years he has performed, composed and recorded across the globe with an array of legendary musicians including Nico, John Cale and currently Pere Ubu. He runs his own record label Geo and performs his own solo electronica as Gagarin – to considerable critical acclaim in UK and Europe. He studied Community Music at Goldsmiths College and is now the convenor  and lead tutor of their Cert in Music Workshop Skills and is designing a BA degree in Community Music. He is a trainer of musis leaders specialising in creativity with technology, all types of drumming, songwriting and composition.

Cela Fairhead www.magicofvoice.com www.myspace.com/celafairhead
Cela has worked as a music leader for 5 years as a vocals and music teacher with individuals and varying group sizes.  She has worked with a wide variety of young people, aged 7- 25, in many different setting.  She has a flexible approach and works well with young people developing an easy rapport quickly which helps learning, while also challenging them to go beyond their limitations to encourage the growth of confidence and self-esteem. She trained at Chichester College on the Jazz diploma.  This is the style of music she prefers to perform she performs with an 8-piece James Bond band and Latin jazz.

Sarah Fisher
A professional musician for over 20 years, Sarah Fisher has worked extensively in the music industry.  Appearing nationally and internationally as a singer/ pianist,  worked as a session musician for many international artists; toured worldwide with The Eurythmics and appeared on numerous TV programmes. Currently performing with 80s icon Hazel O Connor in a new project. Sarah completed the Goldsmiths College Music Workshop Skills in the Community course in 2003. She has delivered music workshops in keyboard, vocals, performance skills, song writing and recording. Work has taken place in Prisons (Womens and Mens), Young Offenders Units, Youth clubs and with vulnerable teenagers and teenage mothers, LGBT and after school projects.

Sara Khoroosi
Sara is a professional Musician and Latin Dance Teacher. She plays at many UK festivals with  Manouchska, and is the violinist in Mintons Playhouse and  Dunia. Besides performing she also enjoys teaching both violin and piano, and uses her years of training in the Alexander Technique as a means to help others explore their creativity through music in a free flowing way. Sara also teaches dance in a private capacity tailoring her classes to meet the needs of her clients.

Raf Mantelli www.myspace.com/rafando
Raf Mantelli is a distinctive songstress, producer, musician and performer. She fronted art rock band Eye-sis and her current band is Raf and O.  Raf trained at Goldsmiths College is an experienced freelance music facilitator. She has run Musicianship, Performance, Songwriting and Midi courses at Greenwich Community College. She’s also part of the Midi Music Company’s team. Image by Steve Hayward Photography

Steve Morley www.tablaworkshops.com
Steve first studied tabla with Pt. Chotilal Misra in India in the 1980s, and has also been under the tutelage of Pt. Sharda Sahai. He has been teaching, performing and leading workshops and courses across Southern England since 1995. With its versatility, vocalised language and wide range of sounds, tabla drumming offers unique musical and rhythmic possibilities for children and young people of all ages and abilities.

Will Oakey
Will has been playing Music for 10 years, his main specialties are guitar and drums. He has 9 years experience in gigging and band work. Will has been working for Rhythmix since 2008 on L.I.T.V (soon to be Make Waves) run by Ian Barnett. Will has a National Diploma in Music Practice. He would also like to add a huge thank you to everyone at Rhythmix and Ian Barnett for everything and may we “Rock On!”

Juliet Russell www.vocalexplosion.co.uk
Juliet Russell composes, directs and sings for dance and theatre companies and her work has been used for television, film and radio. Musical Director & composer for large-scale site-specific community performances with such well-known arts companies as Same Sky.

Ryan P.H Sainsbury www.myspace.com/villaparkuk
Ryan P.H Sainsbury is a music producer,composer and studio engineer. After studying music production at the Academy of Contemporary Music he worked with record companies in New York and London as a producer. Ryan also writes music for T.V, Film, and Radio, writing for independent radio stations and the BBC. As well as producing, composing, and performing with his band (Precilla Broke!) he now also teaches young people music-making.

Vincent Salzfaas www.peterknight.net/gigspanner.htm
Vincent has been teaching and playing rhythmic music for 27 years in all kinds of genres including it folk, jazz, world or free improvised. Vincent teaches traditional west African singing and percussion as well as using beat box to folk in workshops. Instruments include Djembe, Bougara Bou, Conga, Bata, Imbira, voice and hand percussion (bells shekere, clave etc). Vincent has set up African drum bands all over the UK in main stream and special schools and some of these bands have performed in large scale venues such.

Al Start www.alstart.co.uk
Al is a singer-songwriter; recording, producing and touring internationally. Al has been a playworker for 22 years and in 2006 merged music making with playworking to create “Sign Up for Singing”. Al is now a familiar face in dozens of schools runs singing assemblies, small and large groups, songwriting sessions, instrument jams and Soundmakers sessions for Brighton and Hove Music, Arts and Study Support.

Richard Smith www.myspace.com/rafando
A bass player since the early 80’s, Richard Smith has played in numerous bands. As a young musician, he garnered valuable industry experience alongside Ted Hawkins.  Working as live sound engineer led Richard to producing, arranging and collaborating in various musical projects. He embraced Music Technology and Midi from its inception, pioneering music software. Richard plays bass and co-produces for Raf and O. Trained at Goldsmiths College, Richard is a very experienced freelance music tutor. Richard is a Lecturer teaching Music Technology, Musicianship, Bass Guitar and Improvisation at Greenwich and Lewisham Colleges. Image by Steve Hayward Photography

Ollie Tunmer www.ollietunmer.co.uk
Ollie Tunmer provides workshops in STOMP-style body percussion, samba drumming, hand percussion and drum kit.  He teaches using non-technical, aural methods allowing his workshops to be accessible to those with or without prior musical training.  With an infectious enthusiasm for rhythm, he draws on a wealth of experience of leading workshops in educational, community and corporate contexts. 
A dynamic and motivating facilitator, Ollie performs and leads workshops with STOMP and is a musical director of samba percussion group Carnival Collective and afro-beat orchestra Kalakuta Millionaires.

Jo White
Jo has been a performing musician for 16 years. Since graduating from Goldsmith’s “Workshop skills for Facilitators” course, she has delivered workshops in creative composition, song writing, vocal and percussion skills in numerous settings, developing a particular interest in Key Stage 2 work. She has a passionate involvement in the evolving traditions of folk and acoustic music across Europe. Locally she plays as one half of “4 legs Good” and tours internationally with acoustic ensemble “Red Dog Green Dog” and singer song writers “Sons of Noel and Adrian”. Jo plays accordion, flute, percussion and bass guitar.