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.

Kit Riley

MOZË

Bec Sandridge

Hayley Mainwaring

Pete Drummond

Ben Stewart

Zevon Hiltz

Marcel Youmanni

Angela Librandi

Karl Lewis

Aimee Francis

MAXON

Jason Vorherr

Jimi Hocking

Dallas Frasca

Maggie Alley

Taylor Douglas

Mitch Cairns

Conrad Tracey

Nik Pringadi

Mack Moses

Penny Ikinger

Dave Leslie

Oli Sansom

Clio Renner

Damien Dixon

Alana Wilkinson

Stacey Gray

Jake Laderman

Freya Josephine Hollick

Peter ‘Maz’ Maslen

Kellie Santin

Cameron McKenzie

Jay Jerome

Nkechi Anele

Kerryn Fields

Brihony Dawson

Alex Marko

Tommy Boyce

Dean Tellefson

Hannah Blackburn

Nat Allison

Ciarann Babbington

Tim Henwood

Scott Thorburn

Nitida Atkinson

Sam Vandenberg

Thom Swain

Leon Kechayas

Simon Hosford

Brooke Taylor

Hanny J

Jamie MacDowell

Steven Gates

Darryn Farrugia

Kathleen Halloran

Ecca Vandal

Andy Sylvio

James Crosland

Dave Graney

Kylie Auldist

Ben Wicks

Pete Farnan

Xani Kolac

Paulie Stewart

Delsinki

Maddy Herbert

Lloyd Spiegel

Kaitlin Keegan

Katie Underwood

Ruby Gill

Brett Kingman

Merpire

Christian Nativo

Phil Ceberano

Jess Locke

Ash Davies

Olympia

Declan Long

Juanita Timpanaro

Toby Peterson

Jenny McKechnie

Tanya Cavanagh

Rod Bustos

Stefanie Duzel

Emilee South

Liam Gough

Jess Ribeiro

Paris Wells

Laura Davidson

Dizzy Davidson

Stevie Williams

Mareya

David Seedsman

Ali Barter

Emily Shaw

Evan Tweedie

Glenn Reither

Liz Drummond

Paul Cartwright

Sebastian Garcia

Bec Goring

Fiona Lee Maynard

Jen Sholakis

Tony Featherstone

Tejo D’Cruz

Larni Pearce

Sarah McLeod

Thom Mann

Jackson Phelan

Louise Goh

Hugo Race

Haydn Meggit

Lucas Harwood
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