Faculty

STEVE GIBSON (BandWorks Co-Founder and Co-Director)

Steve is a guitarist and music teacher who has been working in the Bay Area since moving to Berkeley in 1984. He founded BandWorks with Jeremy Steinkoler in 1993. In addition to his private teaching and BandWorks classes, Steve has taught at Cazadero Performing Arts Camp for the past seven years, worked in London as a music director, taught band workshops in Dublin (Ireland), and contributed to Guitar Player magazine. As a guitarist, Steve has performed at many clubs and festivals throughout northern California, including the High Sierra Music Festival, the San Jose Jazz Festival, and the Sonoma Salute to the Arts. His recording "Sunday" was used by the Augustino Dance Theatre Company. Most recently, Steve has performed and recorded with Andrea Hurley and Her Very Attractive Band, Marie Schumacher's Invisible Band, Dubrock, Lonnie Lazar and the Vaporizors, Chowbucket, and Jemimah Puddleduck, among others. In addition to guitar, Steve has taught saxophone, mandolin, bass, and piano. He is also a registered Music Together teacher.

JEREMY STEINKOLER (BandWorks Co-Founder and Co-Director)

Since picking up his first pair of drumsticks at the age of 10, Jeremy has gone on to teach drum clinics and rock band classes in Ann Arbor, MI, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Dublin, Ireland. He has been on the faculty of Cazadero Performing Arts Family Camp for the past ten years, where he was the Co-Director from 1999-2001. Jeremy founded BandWorks in 1993 with Steve Gibson. In addition to teaching BandWorks classes and a full roster of private students, Jeremy maintains an active performing schedule, playing around the San Francisco Bay Area on a weekly basis with his own J. Steinkoler Quartet, the unique saxes-and drums trio Mo’Fone, singer/songwriters Kevin Beadles and Christie McCarthy, and assorted other projects. He has performed at dozens of popular Bay Area venues and festivals, including the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s nightclub at Jack London Square in Oakland, the Shoreline Amphitheater, and at Lincoln Center and the Village Gate in New York City. He has played with Dave Ellis (The Other Ones, Charlie Hunter), Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman), Kirk Joseph (Dirty Dozen Brass Band), Guru Garage, Hot Links, and many other top touring bands and musicians. His music has been featured on KFOG, KCSM, KUSP, and KALX radio stations, and has received radio airplay across the country and in Europe. Jeremy is proud to be endorsed by Vic Firth Drumsticks, Istanbul Cymbals and Attack Drumheads. "A very swinging drummer who's mastered the art of coordinated independence." -East Bay Express

MATT HEULITT (BandWorks faculty since 2002)

Matt began playing guitar at age 13 in the backwoods of Michigan. With little interest in the regional activities of bow-hunting and cow-tipping, he was able to focus entirely on the unique task of becoming a "great guitar player.” He was accepted into the Interlochen Arts Academy to study jazz guitar, and later graduated from the University of Miami in Florida with a Bachelors degree in Studio Music and Jazz. In 1997 Matt moved to the Bay Area to continue his exciting musical adventures with various rock, funk, jazz, and indulgent instrumental groups, including playing with the great New Orleans legend Zigaboo Modeliste. In 2005, Matt toured with Salvador Santana, opening for the great Carlos Santana on his East Coast tour. He is currenty on a world tour opening for Carlos Santana. In addition to performing, he has loved teaching private guitar lessons since his high school days. In the spring of 2002, Matt was the first new instructor in 9 years to join the BandWorks teaching roster.

SAM BEVAN (BandWorks faculty since 2003)

After years of classical piano studies, Sam’s “formal education” was interrupted when he attended his first reggae concert. Mesmerized by the power and pulse of the electric bass, Sam dedicated himself to the instrument, and was soon gigging around Salt Lake City playing and singing in rock, reggae, and funk bands. With his jazz pop power trio the Sun Masons, Sam won Best Bassist Award from the Salt Lake City Weekly in 1997 and 1998, as well as the Best Songwriter Award in 1998. Sam moved to Bay Area in 1999 and became a member of the David Grisman Quintet from 2000-2001, during which time he had the fortune to share the stage with numerous bluegrass luminaries whose names he had never heard. He was also a staff writer for Bass Player and Gig magazines, writing album reviews, music transcriptions, and product reviews. Following his stint in the DGQ, Sam settled into the Bay Area music scene performing with numerous well-known jazz, funk, and pop acts. In addition to his performing history, Sam has taught bass, guitar, and piano for the past 10 years. He is an instructor at the Academy of Language, Music, and Arts in Orinda, and a staff member of the National Guitar Workshop.

JIM PETERSON (BandWorks faculty since 2003)

Jim has been teaching and performing in the Bay Area for 25 years. When he's not playing local restaurants, bars and private parties with an eclectic variety of bands, he's teaching saxophone, flute, clarinet and band workshops. He has recently joined the staff at BandWorks in Jack London Square and is looking forward to bringing his years of experience to the program. Jim has been playing and touring around the world with the likes of Steve Lucky and the Rumba Bums, Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88's, Mo’Fone, and the J. Steinkoler Quartet. He also performs with his own Trio and Quartet.

JON PREUSS (BandWorks faculty since 2004)

After sustaining one to many injuries racing dirt bikes and playing intramural sports, Jon turned to the "safer" pursuit of guitar at the age of 16. He played in garage bands and learned classic rock tunes. After high school, a summer jazz camp led to enrolling in college as a music major. Jon received a Bachelors of Music in Classical Guitar & Performance from Northern Arizona University. He also played in the Jazz Big Band and with local jazz combos. After later studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Jon headed back to the Southwest where he performed and began his teaching career. Performing and teaching in Seattle followed. And finally, a move to San Francisco in 1988. Appearing throughout the Bay Area at clubs and festivals, Jon has played with variety of bands including the Jessie Turner Band, Moe Dark & The Love Posse, Presidents Breakfast, Nancy Hall & The Curios, Hurlo Thrumbo, Bob Bradshaw & The Resident Aliens, and Beth Custer (Eighty Mile Beach). He has recorded with several artists including Pete Forbes, Sara Lovell, and Ha Tran. Jon enjoys teaching private lessons and also serves on the faculty of the National Guitar Workshop.

DENNIS FORTIN (BandWorks faculty since 2004)

Dennis Fortin has been playing guitar since the age of seven. Although Dennis took formal guitar lessons for 15 years as a child, most of his musical development later in life in the areas of jazz, blues and rock has been self-taught, and is due in part to his keen musical ear and ability to imitate what’s heard on recordings. Dennis has been playing in bands ever since high school. His musical interests are varied, and include jazz, blues, r&b, rock, country and bluegrass. In addition to guitar, Dennis also sings, plays bass guitar and mandolin, and has recently taken up drums. Among the groups in the Bay Area that Dennis has played with are: Soul Motive, Left Turn, Under The Wire, The Blues Daddies and the Doug Stevens Outband, with whom he has recorded. He is currently playing with Hot Popcorn, Smooth, and the Lincoln Street Jazz Brigade. Dennis has also been a musical instructor at Cazadero Family Camp for several years.

DAVE BERZONSKY (BandWorks faculty since 2004)

An accomplished upright and electric bassist, Dave began his career in Charlottesville,VA studying jazz, funk and blues music. He began composing ensemble pieces in the University of Virginia's jazz ensemble, under the direction of trumpeter John Dearth. He has since played with many fine musicians, including the Malian griot Cheick Hamala Diabate, with whom he performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He tavelled for two years studying music in Brazil, Mexico and Peru and performed in several groups at festivals throughout Latin America, including a performance with the Maracatu Nacao Pernambuco at the 2001 Carnaval in Olinda, Pernambuco. After returning to the states, he has recorded original projects with his wife, the singer Estela Knott, and has travelled to Europe several times to perform with various groups. He has recently moved to the Bay area and is beginning to perform here.

STACE WRIGHT (BandWorks faculty since 2004)

From a role in a professional production of "Peter Pan" when he was 8 to a gig as a tenor sax player in an Elvis impersonator band, Stace has enjoyed performing. His first instrument was the clarinet followed by the tenor saxophone. He played the bass drum in the high school marching band and baritone saxophone in the university marching band. He has also played in stage bands and sung in jazz choir. In the early 1980's he "roadied," ran lights and played bass in a rock band. He later began teaching himself guitar, practicing up to 10 hours a day for the next 20 years. During this time he also got married and had two children (now 6 and 9), traveled a bit and listened to a lot of good music. He has a BA in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and is the production manager at a local cartography company during the day. At night he spends as much time as possible singing and playing guitar with his own band. He has considerable experience as a youth sports coach and has found that much of that experience applies to the concepts of BandWorks. He is very excited to have this opportunity to work with young musicians.

JOE BALESTRERI (BandWorks faculty since 2004)

Joe's interest in music began very early in life. By the age of 13, he was playing piano, guitar, and trumpet, as well as singing and songwriting. After writing a full-length piece for his high school Symphonic Band, Joe went on to earn a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition from Illinois Wesleyan University. Since then, Joe has taught in a variety of settings, including beginning-intermediate concert band, K-8 general music, and rock band tutoring. He has been teaching private trumpet and guitar lessons, with children and adults of all ability levels, since 2001. Joe is proud to have performed with New Orleans music greats Zigaboo Modeliste and Buckwheat Zydeco, as well as Bay Area funk and African acts such as Albino!, Samba Ngo, and Brown Baggin. Currently he's playing trumpet and recording with local classical ensembles and bands, while leading his own original rock project, The Flux.

JOHN HALL (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

John Hall is a former teacher with a B.A. in Early Childhood Education and a minor in music. John is a professional drummer who performs with a variety of Bay Area bands. In addition to being a Bandworks teacher, he is the percussion instructor at Oakland's The Renaissance School and gives private drum lessons from his home in Concord. John is also active in public schools with his Percussion Presentation programs that allows hands-on classroom experiences with percussion. For more information on John's Percussion Presentation programs please visit www.hallpercussion.com.

ROB REICH (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Rob enjoys teaching and playing music around the Bay Area. Since studying composition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he's been playing accordion, piano, and guitar with many Bay Area bands. Current bands include: The Red Hot Chachkas, Gaucho, Kugelplex, Lord Loves A Working Man, and Rococo Risque Cabaret. His enthusiasm for music comes across through his teaching.

ANDREW GRIFFIN (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Whether he’s playing rock, jazz, funk, or blues, Andrew plays for the song, and always in the pocket. Andrew works as a drummer, drum instructor, and session musician, performing and recording with musicians and groups including ViV (rock), The Bloody Lovelies (rock), The Megan Slankard Band (pop), The Gun and Doll Show (rock), The Rich McCulley Band (Americana), Delta Wires (blues & funk), and PC Munoz & the Amen Corner (spoken word funk). In addition to teaching Bandworks, Andrew teaches private lessons at his East Bay Drummers’ Studio in Oakland, California. Recnetly he presented his first ever drum clinic for the California Percussive Arts Society, Essentials of Funk Drumming, as part of their annual Oakland Day of Percussion. Andrew is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied with drumming greats Kenwood Dennard (Jaco Pastorius, Maceo Parker, Sting), Joe Hunt (Bill Evans, Stan Getz), John Ramsey (the Jazz Messengers), and Gary Chaffee (Gary Burton). Andrew combines the lessons learned from his Boston mentors with inspiration from his favorite performers, Steve Gadd, Ringo Starr, and Art Blakey, to create a musical, groove-oriented sensitive playing style that’s all his own. “Most drummers play the drums on songs. Andrew plays the songs on drums.” -Peter Canton, bassist

NICK DUMITRIU (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

For the past ten years Nick has been playing, producing, and teaching music in San Fransicso’s vibrant rock scene. Recently he’s performed at
hallowed local venues like The Fillmore, The Great American Music Hall, and Bimbo’s 365 Club. Nick stresses the similiarites between production and teaching (he was a high school teacher as well!): both aim to bring out the unique style of emerging artists.

MARK BERNFIELD (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Drummer and vocalist Mark Bernfield has been teaching music for 18 years. At UC San Diego, where he graduated cum laude in classical vocal performance, he directed the UCSD Madrigal Singers for 3 years. Upon graduation, he went on to direct choirs, teach private voice students and lead vocal workshops at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center in Southern New Jersey. He has been teaching drums privately in the Bay Area since 1995, and is currently Musical Director of East Bay Harmony, a 35-member community chorus based in Oakland. On drums, Mark has performed and/or recorded with jazz groups The Brad Niven Trio, EO Trio, The Michael LaMacchia Core-tet; blues bands The Blue Reptiles, The Justin Torpey Band, and Edna Love and the Love Toys; funk bands Flowtilla and Thump; singer-songwriters John Vanderslice, Jill Knight, Rich McCulley, Andrea Hurley and Marie Schumacher; textural art-rock band Laughingstock; Mark Karan (The Other Ones/Ratdog); Adam Levy (Norah Jones); Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco), and many others. He has toured extensively and played at most major Bay Area venues. Mark studied drums locally with Peter Magadini, Robert Kaufman, and Scott Amendola, and at the Berklee College of Music with Joe Hunt and Ed Kaspik.

LISA MEZZACAPPA (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Lisa Mezzacappa is an Oakland-based bassist, bandleader and improviser. She has studied with Michael Formanek, Henry Threadgill, Ralph Alessi and Steve Coleman, and has performed with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Meredith Monk, Bob Moses, David Murray, Donovan, Terry Riley, Jerry Bergonzi and Clark Terry, among others. She was artist-in-residence at the Banff International Jazz Workshop (2000), and holds a BA in music from the University of Virginia (1997) and an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Berkeley (2003). She will be artist-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, CA in spring 2006. Lisa has taught bass privately for nearly ten years, has coached high school concert and jazz bands, and has worked extensively with college students and elementary school children in academic contexts as a reading, writing and music teacher. She has been playing in and rehearsing with rock bands since she was twelve.

CAL REICHENBACH (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Cal is a guitarist who was inspired to learn to play as a twelve year old Jersey kid obsessed with Eddie Van Halen. Cal has been playing in rock, funk, and jazz bands for more than twenty years, and teaching guitar lessons for ten years. He graduated from Middlebury College with a minor in jazz studies, where he studied with Fred Haas and Bob Hallahan. He teaches guitar and band workshops at Marin Country Day School (K-8) in Corte Madera, and also directs a funk band workshop at Redwood High in Larkspur. Cal performs regularly with the nationally-tourning Afrobeat ensemble ALBINO! (winner of a 2005 SF Music Award for Best World Music Band), the instrumental jazz/funk unit Guru Garage (with Bandworks co-director Jeremy Steinkoler), and rock/pop songwriter Joel Streeter. Examples of Cal’s work as a session guitarist and producer can be heard at www.calreichenbach.com.

LIZ SAVA (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Liz has a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Southern California College in Costa Mesa, California. Although her first instrument was piano, she has learned and played a wide variety of instruments including bass, saxophone and percussion, and has been studying and teaching voice for over 12 years. Originally trained in classical and opera, Liz spent 4 years after college studying Jazz at De Anza College. She was part of the Downbeat Award-winning jazz group, Vocal Flight, and traveled with them to tour France during the summer of 2004. After submersing herself into the Brazilian world of music and dance, and having performed in the San Francisco Carnaval during 2004 and 2005, Liz is now performing Brazilian, Jazz, and Rock throughout the Bay Area.

BORIS BURTIN (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Boris is an eclectic keyboard player with a style that's rooted in jazz and heavily influenced by funk, electronica, pop, reggae, rock and latin. He is most inspired by groove-based music that crosses stylistic boundaries. Boris perfoms regularly with the jazz-funk band Odd Times, in which he plays keyboards and does songwriting and arranging. He also works on a regular basis sitting in with jazz combos and big bands. Boris enjoys teaching private piano lessons and coaching bands. His teaching style emphasizes ear training, improvisation, communication, songwriting and arranging. In addition to playing keyboards, Boris has experience with synth programming, studio recording, rhythm guitar and Brazilian percussion.

DARYL BERK (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Guitarist/vocalist/music educator and facilitator,  Darryl Berk has been an integral part of the music scene for more years than he cares to remember.  A Cleveland, Ohio native, Darryl began studying guitar at age 12, with legendary jazz guitarist, Bill DeArango.  After many years of gigs throughout Northeast Ohio, he pursued a more formal education studying theory and harmony with Phil Rizzo.  This led to his being offered a scholarship to study at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music.  Upon graduation, he moved to New York City where he found himself in constant demand performing up to 250 gigs a year.  He has shared the stage with the likes of  George Benson, Alabama, The Shirelles, The Tokens, Randy Travis, The Drifters, The Four Tops, The Judds, Darlene Love and Geeorge Strait.  Darryl also became involved in the world of commercial production and voiceover.  His skills and abilities as a producer have been an integral part of his success as an educator and facilitator in the team-building arena.  He and his family moved to the Bay area in 1997, where he remains in demand as a performer, educator and facilitator.

JUDY GASCOYNE (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

Judy Gascoyne (aka "Groovy Judy") is a groovy funky rock guitarist and private teacher on the mid-peninsula. Growing up in Livermore, CA she was inspired by Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, and began teaching herself how to play guitar at age 15.   Primarily self taught, she has studied music theory at Chabot College and has played in several local bands.  She's the leader, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of her Flower Power Funk-Rock Band, Groovy Judy and she performs regularly through out the Bay Area. She teaches rock, funk, blues, and folk guitar and her style is based on positive reinforcement and getting students up and playing the guitar quickly. Judy also teaches guitar at DayJams Music Camps and does band coaching. 

CHRIS DETRICK (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Chris has been passionate about the guitar since he first picked it up in the sixth grade. Although originally attracted to Rock, he quickly expanded the focus of his studies to include Blues, Funk, Reggae, Jazz, and Classical, playing in various bands in both Marin and Berkeley. Chris graduated in 2006 from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Music, with a focus on harmony, composition and performance. In addition to Bandworks, Chris teaches private guitar lessons. Chris is delighted to be teaching the songs that first inspired his quest for musical knowledge, and he hopes to help his students develop the skills they need to find their own musical voices.

DEIRDRE LYNDS (BandWorks faculty since 2005)

DANIEL SHERIDAN (BandWorks faculty since 2006)

After his band won the battle of the bands at his high school in 1995, Daniel knew that there was no turning back and was to pursue a career in music. Soon after graduating High School, he moved from quiet suburban San Diego County to San Francisco where he earned a B.A. in music from San Francisco State University. He has attended scores of concerts from touring musicians from all over the country and the world, one notably a master class with classical guitar maestro Manuel Barrueco in 1998. Since moving to Berkeley in 2002, he has worked as a free-lance classical guitarist playing solo gigs for weddings and restaurants and as a private guitar instructor. At any given time he is playing with a varied number of bands around town, including an early-jazz/gypsy swing trio and a salsa/latin jazz trio. Also, he plays with an Iron Maiden tribute band called ‘I yearn for Maiden’, who recently played a concert at Berkeley’s historic People’s Park to benefit the free-box. He also has become involved with a weekly Hip Hop class at La Pena cultural center in Berkeley that teaches the fundamentals of emcee rap technique and live music accompaniment and beat-making.

JEFF ROLKA (BandWorks faculty since 2006)

Jeff Rolka graduated from the University of Michigan with Bachelors and Masters Degrees (with Honors) in Music Performance. He is credited with several definitive recordings in the classical realm, has produced and appeared on several Bay Area songwriter's records, and has two solo records of his own which can be previewed at www.jeffrolka.com. He has taught at the University of Michigan, in the Alameda Unified School District, in the Diocese of Oakland, and currently enjoys balancing a studio of voice students in San Francisco when he's not on tour supporting his latest release. Jeff is the consummate multi-instrumentalist, having performed and/or recorded on vocals (lead and backing) saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone) flute, clarinet, drums, keyboard percussion, piano, bass, acoustic and electric guitars, hand percussion, and even the Japanese traditional Shakuhachi flute. When not playing music, Jeff likes to relax by running marathons or climbing mountains.

KEITH OGDEN (BandWorks faculty since 2006)

Keith Ogden has taken Oakland's Redwood Day School's Rock Band Program from a small four-student group over 5 years ago, to a program with 3 bands and nearly 40 students today. Over the years, the groups have recorded in professional studios and played countless shows at school functions as well as at venues in the community. He has also been teaching guitar privately for more than 6 years. During that time he has also written, recorded, and toured with the Sacramento-based rock band Paradigm, and is now starting to branch out on his own as a songwriter and guitarist.

CHRISTOPHER GLYNN (BandWorks faculty since 2006)

Chris Glynn began his teaching tenure with BandWorks in the summmer of 2005, assisting opposite Dave Berzonsky. Since nine years old, he has been playing various instruments, including piano, guitar, bass and drums. For the past few years he has been studying music at Laney college in Oakland as well as the Jazz School in Berkeley, and will soon be moving to Oregon to continue his musical studies at Willamette University.

JUSTUS DOBRIN (BandWorks faculty since 2006)

SCARTH LOCKE (BandWorks faculty since 2007)

Scarth Locke has been writing, performing, and recording music since he was bit by the songwriting bug in college in 1990. Trained as a trombone player from the 5th grade onwards, he picked up the guitar in college, and began learning how to play the full gamut of rock and roll instruments (except the cowbell, the subtleties of which continue to elude him) through the process of having to record what he heard in his head. He currently is a special education teacher in Oakland, and before that was galvanized by a year teaching as a substitute teacher in Oakland. Emboldened and inspired by his Bandworks experience, he has become an occasional substitute music teacher for grades 1-5.

ERIC GETTER (BandWorks faculty since 2007)

Eric Getter, percussionist, first picked up drumsticks and joined concert band in high school as a last-ditch effort to save his G.P.A. Twenty years later Eric has performed repertoire ranging from the traditional to the avant-garde. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, he has presented numerous premiers as well as classics of the twentieth century. In the realm of drum set, Eric studied with jazz legends Charlie Haden and Andrew Hill while working towards his MFA in Percussion from California Institute of the Arts. He currently teachers privately, plays with the hard-driving, power-pop trio Jubonic and with the classic-rock cover band 5150.

BRETT BOYD (BandWorks faculty since 2007)

Brett Boyd is a guitarist, songwriter, and producer with more than ten years of experience as a music industry professional. He is the lead guitarist of The Beautiful Losers, who have released two CD’s in Japan and North America, and whose music is heard on MTV reality shows and is licensed for several Japanese TV commercials. Brett has recorded and performed throughout Japan, The U.S. and Europe, and has had the privilege of working beside some of the top professionals in music today. After studying at The Musician’s Institute in Hollywood and also receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature, Brett moved to Tokyo where he landed a job with EMI Music Publishing Japan and worked as an international liaison. While living in Japan, Brett co-produced CD’s for Virgin Music Japan and worked on a number of creative and business projects which included writing and recording with several Japanese artists (like the million-selling punk band Hi-Standard), and negotiating sub-publishing and licensing contracts with the likes of Metallica and Guns n’ Roses. Brett is now living back in his hometown of Mill Valley where he has a studio for teaching guitar and producing music, and he is working on The Beautiful Losers third CD release. www.myspace.com/brettboyd

REX NICODEMUS (BandWorks faculty since 2007)

Born in Piqua, Ohio, Rex has been playing professionally since age 13, starting with festivals and high school dances throughout southern Ohio.  He lived in Tucson, AZ from 1979 – 1989, where he played numerous clubs and recorded original music with the band Once Bitten.  Drawn by its diverse music and cultural scene, Rex moved to the Bay area in 1989. He has recorded an original album with the band Times Square, who performed opening night for the San Jose Sharks and the San Jose Earthquakes. He has also played the morning show on radio station 107.7 “The Bone” out of San Francisco.  Rex currently works with the following bands: Monkey Knife Fight, Blind Pilots, Those2Guy and Latin Funk Express.  Rex has been teaching music for 30 years, and currently teaches out of Music-Go-Round in San Jose.

ZACK ORR (BandWorks faculty since 2008)

Zack Orr began playing guitar at the age of fourteen in Atlanta, GA. Since that time he has toured the USA, recorded two solo albums, stage managed the South By South West (SXSW) music festival and taught music in private and group settings. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in Guitar Performance, Zack has led students as director of several “rock band” programs and served on the faculty of the National Guitar Workshop’s Day Jams summer camp. As Co-Director of Bandworks first expansion outside the Bay Area, Zack is excited about bringing such a great program to Portland, OR. “Stunning and inventive, Zack Orr just may be unstoppable.” - Ben Fong-Torres, Former Senior Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine.