"I started taking guitar lessons with Paul and soon after started taking voice lessons with Rochelle. They are both extremely talented teachers and the energy, kindness and care they take with each student is astounding. Rochelle and Paul have a love for music and adaptable styles that will allow any student to find their own voice, their own sound and their own meaning of music.

I have always loved music but it was not until I started working with Paul and Rochelle that I realized how much more music could be."

Paul

"Paul is able to connect with anyone. He has a style and personality that makes any student feel comfortable. As an adult student learning my first instrument, I was very intimidated. Paul put me at ease immediately and knew exactly how to lead me down a path to experiencing some small successes very quickly to keep me motivated. He enjoys all types of music and made extraordinary efforts to learn the artists and genre of music I was interested in. With a great sense of humour he is able to keep you focused in a fun way, always pushing you to be better. I always got the sense that he cared that I was enjoying music as I continued along my learning path. Who else could convince a 38 year old to perform at a recital amongst the 8 year olds... and enjoy it, because it was good for my growth."

Rochelle

"I have always admired Rochelle's talent for teaching students how to use the voice as an instrument. So many of the concepts she needs to teach are abstract and demand the student to feel things physically, visualize things mentally and sometimes to break lifelong habits. She makes learning these concepts so much fun and she has a gift of making anyone comfortable enough to try the craziest things with your voice. For me to accomplish my goals, I needed to try things that were very uncomfortable. She truly pushed me to get out of my comfort zone and have fun doing so. I always felt like Rochelle truly cared about me as a person, as a student and about my personal success with music. When I mastered something very hard, she seemed almost happier than I did. When I failed repeatedly at something, she never got annoyed and always made feel like I had accomplished something at the end of each session.

I can't say enough about Paul and Rochelle as teachers and as people.

Every Wednesday evening I spent with them, I came home with a smile on my face and feeling more fulfilled than before. Finding teachers that have degrees, technical knowledge and performance experience is hard. But finding teachers that have all of that and can inspire students of any level and any age is truly a gift."

- Arleen King, Montreal Canada

I had the pleasure of having Paul Henbury as my guitar teacher for couple of years when he was living in Montreal. He is a marvellous teacher with an uncanny ability to mix theory and practice in just the right proportions. There is structure but it's invisible, and he essentially let me learn the blues by discovery, encouraging playing with feeling, and all the while being laid back about how much he was really teaching. (I was a "primitive" guitarist some thirty-plus years ago when I was a kid: teaching myself chords, experimenting with drones and double stops, but never really being able to get the big picture as to why some things sounded good together and others not.) Paul gave me the the answers with the big picture so that I now feel empowered (sounds corny) to really delve into the music.

For our first lesson, he showed me the structure of twelve bar blues, threw in some basic terminology (roots/tonics, the meaning of ordinals such as fifths, sevenths and how they relate to chord variations) and that was enough for the light bulb to turn on. Our meetings after that started with a talk about music in general, me stumbling through the bits that I should have practised more, and Paul moving me a step further with the demonstration of a technique or riff, or in response to one of my many questions. And while pressures and time demands at work sometimes left me with little time to practise, Paul's lessons have given me independence, and I now tackle the guitar confidently.

- Gregory Lypny, Montreal Canada

Here's what The Concordian Online had to say:

"...Ever heard five jazz guitars live? A recording is no substitute for the energy these guys let loose, though the audience was slow to respond. The sound was intoxicating and the group performed their way brilliantly through each piece, their tempo increasing with each new song. Highlights included "Man That's Neat," "Samba Do, Samba Don't," and the finale, "Groovy," which included a particularly energy-packed solo performance by Paul Henbury."

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