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.

Emilee South

Jenny McKechnie

Damien Dixon

Sam Vandenberg

Cameron McKenzie

Nitida Atkinson

Bec Goring

Hanny J

Hayley Mainwaring

Angela Librandi

Andy Sylvio

Sarah McLeod

Ben Stewart

Laura Davidson

Oli Sansom

Delsinki

Merpire

Ali Barter

Jackson Phelan

Pete Farnan

Alex Marko

Kathleen Halloran

Juanita Timpanaro

Sebastian Garcia

James Crosland

Dave Graney

Louise Goh

Nat Allison

Stacey Gray

Olympia

Pete Drummond

Ash Davies

Brett Kingman

Jason Vorherr

Larni Pearce

Tony Featherstone

Dallas Frasca

Lloyd Spiegel

Emily Shaw

Thom Swain

Bec Sandridge

Penny Ikinger

Ecca Vandal

Thom Mann

Kerryn Fields

Fiona Lee Maynard

Zevon Hiltz

Ben Wicks

Brooke Taylor

Scott Thorburn

Declan Long

Jess Locke

Liam Gough

Dizzy Davidson

Jake Laderman

Ruby Gill

Aimee Francis

Jay Jerome

MOZË

Taylor Douglas

Jen Sholakis

Conrad Tracey

Mareya

Mitch Cairns

Peter ‘Maz’ Maslen

Maggie Alley

Phil Ceberano

Karl Lewis

Nkechi Anele

Evan Tweedie

Freya Josephine Hollick

Haydn Meggit

Glenn Reither

Liz Drummond

Dave Leslie

Rod Bustos

Nik Pringadi

Alana Wilkinson

MAXON

Steven Gates

David Seedsman

Marcel Youmanni

Lucas Harwood

Hugo Race

Jess Ribeiro

Paris Wells

Leon Kechayas

Kellie Santin

Stevie Williams

Paulie Stewart

Hannah Blackburn

Brihony Dawson

Tommy Boyce

Jamie MacDowell

Darryn Farrugia

Kaitlin Keegan

Maddy Herbert

Stefanie Duzel

Ciarann Babbington

Kylie Auldist

Toby Peterson

Tim Henwood

Jimi Hocking

Dean Tellefson

Kit Riley

Xani Kolac

Tanya Cavanagh

Katie Underwood

Christian Nativo

Tejo D’Cruz

Mack Moses

Paul Cartwright

Simon Hosford

Clio Renner
We acknowledge that our events are staged on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung, peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their land and waters, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and emerging.