Rock Academy Mentors
We’ve been able to pull together a range of the very best Melbourne musicians to work with our teenagers during Rock Academy. Learn a little bit more about them below.
Developing the future
Our mentors are professional, recording, performing and touring musicians, willing to pass on their years of trials and tribulations to make the path forward a little bighter for the next generation of Australian artists.
Earned knowledge
Our mentors have earned their stripes by touring, performing and recording as solo artists, as band members and hired guns and bring their unqieu perspective to the life of a professional musicians and the art of songwriting.

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Damien Dixon

Larni Pearce

Kerryn Fields

Alana Wilkinson

Leon Kechayas

Oli Sansom

Dizzy Davidson

Hayley Mainwaring

Dave Graney

Freya Josephine Hollick

Lloyd Spiegel

Stefanie Duzel

Mitch Cairns

MAXON

Louise Goh

Ruby Gill

Kit Riley

Nitida Atkinson

Juanita Timpanaro

Penny Ikinger

Jamie MacDowell

Daisy Kilbourne

Laura Davidson

Liz Drummond

Jay Jerome

Ben Stewart

David Seedsman

Tommy Boyce

Jimi Hocking

Sebastian Garcia

Nkechi Anele

Aimee Francis

Phil Ceberano

Nat Allison

Ecca Vandal

Hanny J

Thom Swain

Bec Sandridge

Pete Drummond

Jess Ribeiro

Kathleen Halloran

Cameron McKenzie

Jackson Phelan

Lucas Harwood

Scott Thorburn

Pia Nesvara

Marcel Youmanni

Hannah Blackburn

Brooke Taylor

Andy Sylvio

Stevie Williams

Katie Underwood

Kaitlin Keegan

Evan Tweedie

Paulie Stewart

Olympia

Maddy Herbert

Simon Hosford

Haydn Meggit

Nik Pringadi

Thom Mann

Dave Leslie

Glenn Reither

Emily Shaw

Merpire

Conrad Tracey

Darryn Farrugia

Tejo D’Cruz

Tony Featherstone

Steven Gates

Alex Marko

Jenny McKechnie

Rod Bustos

Ash Davies

Paris Wells

Sarah McLeod

Mareya

Angela Librandi

Maggie Alley

Jason Vorherr

Liam Gough

Karl Lewis

Tim Henwood

Stacey Gray

Delsinki

Taylor Douglas

Declan Long

Hugo Race

Ali Barter

Clio Renner

Jen Sholakis

Mack Moses

Dallas Frasca

Sam Vandenberg

Christian Nativo

Kellie Santin

Brihony Dawson

Brett Kingman

Bec Goring

Emilee South

Dean Tellefson

James Crosland

Fiona Lee Maynard

Jess Locke

Toby Peterson

Ben Wicks

Pete Farnan

Tanya Cavanagh

Zevon Hiltz

Xani Kolac

Ciarann Babbington

Paul Cartwright

Kylie Auldist

Peter ‘Maz’ Maslen

Jake Laderman
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