Much Fruit Productions
Vocal Tutors

Lynieve Austin


Lynieve Austin is the Director of Much Fruit Productions and has had over 20 years of experience working in the music industry. She brings the stage to the classroom. Her teaching methods prepare the singer/artiste for the world of live performance and recording.

She has and is working with a variety of people of all age groups from many diffrent cultures and backgrounds on both groups and One - 2 - One basis. She has a real abilty to build confidence, teach and train people from very basic level of skill to extremely high standard. and a passion to  train devleoping artists.  For more details about her past musical experience click here

Matthew Parry




Matthew Parry 
is a versatile professional vocalist and educator with a passion for inspiring and empowering learners through technical improvement, vocal repertoire and original song writing.

Music Educator Diploma CTTLS Sept - 09/10 (Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector Level 4)

Matts Musical Career
Sung with IDMC Gospel Choir (Tenor) sung backing vocals for Jason Mraz (Royal Albert Hall) and Marc Almond (Peace One Day concert), Supported Stevie Wonder at ARK charity event , Performed at Anita Roddick’s memorial service,Backing vocals for Anne Nesby (Sounds of Blackness) at Wembley Arena gospel concert, Regular bookings at weddings and private parties, Performed in Italy and Croatia, Recorded album in 2009 (Soul Food), Recorded charity single for Haiti at Abbey Road Studios

Matt Currently performs at the Amano café London on a weekly basis

As a Session Singer he has worked with Joy Malcolm (Moby’s backing singer) on a track for the Radio 1 Raz Kwami show, Backing vocals for Lorraine Cato at Maida Vale studios and has sung on various sessions for various gospel artists

Singer with jazz quartet "Avenue Sound" and Performs at weddings and functions and private parties

Volunteer at WAC Performing Arts and Media College, London Vocal workshops for young people with learning difficulties

At present Matt is a Worship Leader at his local church in Croydon leading a congregation of 800 people in worship Arranging musicians, preparing songs, coordinating singers.

Song included on album Acoustic Gospel Vol II
Radio play (Christian stations) and live performances
Singer and Guitarist with band Written on Stone where they have performed around the UK and Europe , Recorded an EP and performed on Christian TV shows


Rachel Bennett

 
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Rachel  Bennett is excellent at helping our clients to realise the natural beauty of thier voice. Learn about breath support and body awareness, phrasing and clarity; hone performance skills, repertoire, and stylistic range.

Systematic & diagnostic

Rachel’s analytical skills are honed to a level of precision that only many years of experience can provide. She shares her deep knowledge of both the physiology and psychology of the vocalists’ art with sensitivity & skill. Rachel is able to quickly correct technical weaknesses, but crucially,  she can show you how to nurture the artist within yourself.

Maturity and experience

Rachel Bennett has been teaching singers in one-to-one and class settings with real success for 25 years. She has worked consistently as a singer, composer, songwriter, and MD for theatre, television & recording studios across London.

Rachel runs the Singing department for the Trinity accredited Diploma in Professional Musical Theatre at WAC Performing Arts and Media College. She has taught regularly for the Albany Theatre, Urban Development and The National Theatre. She has worked internationally as both a teacher and a course consultant.

Guitar Tutor

Alistair MacKenzie





Alistair Mackenzie - multi instrumentalist, singer songwriter and music teacher! He has been playing music and writing songs for over 13 years now. Ever since he picked up the guitar and started playing, music has been his main passion in life.

A professional musician based in Kennington, Alistair has worked all across the London area. He plays a wide range of styles but specialise in folk music, having taken a keen interest in traditional folk music from Britain and America.

Alistair teaches Guitar (electric and acoustic), Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele and Songwriting. He has a relaxed and flexible teaching style which differs depending on who he's teaching. His approach approach helps the student get the best out of their lessons!

He is a firm believer in helping his students find their own unique voice in whatever instrument or discipline.






Piano Tutor

Alex Montaque
 

 

Alex Montaque is a young, professional, full time musician, passionate about inspiring and equipping others in music, and has been teaching for 4 years.

Alex started playing piano at age 6, where he was mainly classically trained (with some jazz and gospel training) and has since developed a love and passion for music and excelled in his maturity as a musician. At the age of 16 he went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Teachnology; 2 years in Music and 1 year in Arts Management.

Alex has a range of performance experience, having gigged from the age of 16  in and around london with many artists across a range of genres.  He has performed with Rihanna at the BRIT Awards 2011 & at the Graham Norton Show 2010, with MOBO Award Winner Jahaziel and played at festivals and venues such as Glastonbury, Greenbelt, 02 Arena, Jazz Cafe and many more. His teaching experience includes working as a Classroom Teaching Assistant in the music department at a primary school for a year and working weekly at rehearsals for Hackney Gospel Choir as keyboardist and musical director for just under 2 years.

Alex is currently working on his own projects, including playing with his gospel group, 'In Christ's Image' and collective 'Abimaro & The Free', both of which made releases last year (2010). He plays with a jazz quartet band called 'Avenue Sound', who perform at weddings, private parties and other functions. He also works as a keyboardist with a charity project called Ignito, who seek to use music and the arts to reach young people living in often deprived areas of inner London. Ignito are currently doing singing workshops in Battersea. Alex is also one of two Musical Directors at his church, New Life, Croydon, which involves organising the band (which can be up to 15 members, arranging all the music for the Sunday night service and directing. A collective of this group was on tour in Ukraine (January 2011) and in Italy (March 2011).

Music Career Coach

Robert Stephenson



Robert Stephenson
trained as an actor and teacher at Rose Bruford Drama School in the late 80’s and then became a founder member of Unclassified Arts, an arts production company who for over a decade have been involved in physical theatre arts training in a variety of fields ranging from social inclusion projects to movement/stage combat choreography. He also creates Special Educational Needs drama workshops for Mousetrap Theatre Projects, as well as working with Stormont House developing creativity within the curriculum. For the Princes’ Trust he has delivered residential, team building and group facilitation events, and he designs and delivers bespoke training programs to educational institutions from Pre School to Adult Education.

Robert is a Coach,
specialising in Motivation and Life Balance. He works with Catalyst Business Dynamics and with Interchange Training, as an Associate Trainer. He also works freelance for Creative Partnerships holding the positions of Creative Agent and Drama Practitioner. As a tutor for WAC Arts and Media College he teaches story telling and improvisation at degree level, also as a Theatre in Education and Physical Theatre tutor for Essex University. He has also worked as a facilitator of Forum Theatre with The London Bubble Theatre Company and as an NLP facilitator for Wilson Sheriff. He is an E.X.C.I.T.E. Graduate (EXcellence in Creativity and Innovation in Teaching and Education), and also holds an ITOL Trainer Certificate, NLP Diploma and gained his Coaching Qualification through an Institute of Leadership and Management Organisation.

Speech Specialist

Anne Thompson



Anne Thompson loves working with artists and students off all ages and abilities; helping them to develop their acting and vocal skills and to give them confidence in the use and expression of their own individual voice. She believes that the ability to communicate clearly and unselfconsciously is a vital skill both professionally and privately.
As a longstanding representative of Trinity Guildhall examinations, Anne prepares many students for Drama and Speech examinations and further Diplomas.