Charles (Charlie) Moreland

Charlie has been playing guitar since the age of 8, and graduated from the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford with a BA Hon's Degree and Higher National Diploma.

He has now worked professionally for 6 years - writing, teaching and working as a session guitarist. In the last 3 years he has performed or recorded with Tina Grace (Spanish Flamenco Singer), Beverly Knight, Molly s Downes (who's recent hit 'Raindrops' hit No 1 in the US dance charts), and Katiya Borlante (X Factor finalist with girl group The Scarletz) to name a few.

He is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher, and a busy working musician - as well as teaching for SCAMPS and privately, Charlie runs his own covers outfit called 'Groove Instinct' who have played some of the country's key venues inc. Earls Court, Southampton Guildhall, The Jazz Cafe, Cafe de Paris and Dover Street Wine Bar. As well as all this, he has also played Classical / Spanish guitar in Soho's Pizza Express, Leicester Sq's The Marquee Club and other various venues in the south east.

Chris Bell

‘Chris discovered his love of music early and started playing his first musical instrument at the tender age of 6. He was classically trained on several instruments, most notably the trombone and euphonium, and performed on these extensively through his teenage years in various groups - everything from brass quartets to Glen Miller style Big Bands.

At age 15 however, he found the instrument he really loves, the guitar, and it soon became clear that this was 'the one'! After finishing school, he gained an engineering degree at the University of Leeds, but couldn't ignore his true passion so went on to study full time at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford before turning professional.

A versatile player and musician, Chris is equally at home playing classical, flamenco, solo fingerstyle or all styles of electric guitar. The guitar is his main instrument, but he can happily turn his hand to the drums and keyboard, although admits that he is hideously out of practice these days on the brass instruments!

He has performed with several bands in recent years, including 'Soul Shakers', a professional function outfit playing soul, motown and funk, as well as recording sessions for artists and TV.

Chris Jones

Chris graduated from the Los Angeles Music Academy, California, USA in 2006 where he was fortunate enough to study guitar with players such as Frank Gamble, Bill Fowler, Art Renshaw, Ross Bolton, Steve Fister and many other leading musicians. He was also a member of the LA Music Academy Jazz and Fusion band.

Chris is registered with and is acknowledged by the Registry of Guitar Tutors in the UK and has gained an extensive range of knowledge when it comes to teaching music and guitar to all ages and abilities.

David White

An incredibly highly skilled and versatile guitarist and teacher, David has been playing for longer than he can remember. Apparently, it all started by listening to old vinyl records that migrated gradually from his parents' room to his own! Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Slade, Status Quo, Free and many of the same rock influences as well as the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, George Benson and Robben Ford.

He has studied at Amersham & Wycombe College and the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford. As well as his formal training, he spent a lot of time playing at jam nights learning how to really improvise with different people and standards, and continues to be a great advocate of these kind of events for building 'real world' musicianship.

He played for a short while with an alternative rock band called Instill, has depped for many bands in his time. He recently joined a local band called Solid Juice and plays in a duo called 'Black and White', which performs in local venues in Surrey and Hampshire. As well as all this, he has played with varying members of Fairport Convention, Colin Webb and Members of Hawkwind.

As well as teaching and performing, David spends a good amount of his time supporting local bands and sound engineering for them, to help keep live music developing and thriving!

John Hall

A exciting and versatile player, John is a graduate of the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, where he gained a BA (Hons) in Professional Musicianship. During his time at BIMM he was taught by world renowned tutors including: Guthrie Govan, Jamie Humphries, Steve Allsworth, and Phil Hilbourne and played with many top names in the music industry such as Ace (Skunk Anansie), Jason Knight (Reef), Rob Green (Toploader), and Paul Winterhart and Alonza Bevan (Kula Shaker).

As well as teaching, he currently gigs around the UK with pro function bands "The Big Swing" and "Funky Gorgeous" and has recorded licks for "Total Guitar", Europe's biggest selling guitar magazine. Check out more about his bands at the following sites: www.thebigswing.biz and www.funkygorgeous.com

Matthew Brown

Matthew has been playing drums for over 20 years. He qualified with a degree in Jazz from Newcastle College in 2000 and has since been teaching and playing across the South East. He plays in a jazz trio as well as a function band, doing the hard slog of weddings and birthday parties.

As well as teaching for Scamps and privately he also helps to run a summer school (of Rock!) in London, runs samba and African percussion workshops and is multitalented - he also plays the organ in his local church!

Owain Williams

Owain started playing music age 4 years, after hearing his father play the busker's classic "Streets of London." Joining his first band aged 13 he quickly gained a wealth of knowledge not just about the instrument itself, but about musicianship. At age 15 he joined an established hard-working blues band based in North Wales. He was the youngest member by 37 years!

Realising from such an early age that music was his passion he studied Music GCSE and A level, BTEC national diploma in Music Technology, Sound and Studio Technology at NEWI University and Contemporary Popular Music at the Academy of Contemporary Music.

He enjoys playing various instruments, and is skilled on the drums and bass as well as guitar. As well as performing, sound recording and studio technology is a huge passion for Owain, and he has recorded numerous bands, some well established, and many which have been formed by his students. He has also composed music for many situations - TV, theatre, bands and solo performers.

Paul Gallagher

Paul joined SCAMPS in 2006 after completing his degree in Popular Music Performance at West London's Guitar Institute A very versatile musician, as well as teaching guitar full time, Paul is also an active performer, playing bass guitar (his first instrument) in a number of function and originals outfits around the UK.

He is also well schooled -. Before moving to London in 2003 Paul enrolled on the Access To Music's Contemporary Popular Music course in Leicester, concentrating on developing his skills on both Bass and Keyboards. This course gave him the opportunity to further the understanding of his instrument and enhance his knowledge of composition and theory.

To can find out more about one of his bands, 'Understate', follow the links: www.myspace.com/understateband , www.understate.co.uk

Rob Aitken

Rob is based in Camberley, Surrey and is a versatile and committed teacher and performer.

Before starting teaching full time at SCAMPS, he worked as a resident show band guitarist for Carnival Cruise Lines for 6 years. Performing as part 10-piece band, he accompanied top class singers for concerts and shows - many musicians' dream gig! During his time on the ships, he traveled extensively around the US, Caribbean, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and Canada. He has also been involved with musical theatre, including a production at the Pleasance Theatre in London.

Graham Sowerby

Graham is an energetic and enthusiastic teacher, and an extremely experienced musician. He has played extensively throughout the UK and Europe with various bands, playing styles of music ranging from reggae to rock, to drum and bass. Although live playing is something Graham has a great passion for, teaching the next generation of performers is equally important to him.

Graham gained a BA (Hons) degree from The Academy of Contemporary Music, in Guildford. Now based in Brighton, as well as his work for SCAMPS he teaches both privately and at an independent rock academy locally.

His aim in lessons is to nurture and prepare pupils for the demands of modern musicianship, by focusing on the practical skills they need, whilst still covering all the necessary theory.

Adam Rich

Based in Barnet, Adam is hugely experienced - he's been playing drums for 20 years and teaching the instrument for the last 8 years both in schools and privately.

As a performer, he has been involved with many different musical projects and bands/artists during his time playing. Most notably, between 1998-2001 he was part of a band called LISP, gaining a record deal with London Records and releasing an album called "Cycles".

Today he freelances with many artists but is also part of a band called 'The Reflections'. Check out the band's web pages at www.thereflectionsmusic.co.uk or www.myspace.com/thereflectionsmusic

Steve Obee

Steve, who originally hales from Sussex first started playing the piano at the tender age of 10 and took lessons in many styles including classical and jazz. He maintained his interest in music through school and went to study it at degree level, graduating with a BMus from Thames Valley University. He first discovered the guitar in his teenage years and immediately got that ‘where've you been all my life’ feeling with his first bash at 'Smoke on the Water'.

Since graduating, he has been teaching both privately and for SCAMPS for a number of years, is active on the gigging circuit and performs at private functions - Recently he has been working with function band www.soulavenue.co.uk and performed at a West end theatre supporting a dance company. He also has a keen interest in recording and spends many hours in the studio writing and producing. 

Steve enjoys playing multiple instruments and also singing solo and ensemble. He likes to let rip once in a while on his electric guitar, i.e. DAILY (his words!!), and is partial to writing and performing low key ballads and fingerstyle ditties.  He likes all styles of music but his favorites are rock, jazz and soul.

Jonny Wharton

Jonny is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter originally from the countryside near Bath and Bristol. His first experience of music was early exposures to his Dad's record collection which included bands like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits and Eric Clapton (his first guitar hero). He took up the piano at the age of 7 and started playing the guitar 3 years later.

Over the next few years I began to explore a diverse range of artists ranging from Nirvana to Aphex Twin, and discovered a passion for music. Growing up on a West Country farm, far from his friends in town, he spent most of his teens making music in his room and trying to master any instruments he could lay his hands on, including drums, bass, percussion and also singing.

Armed with a copy of Cubase and an experimental mind, he went about figuring out the technological side of music and later, took a Creative Music Technology degree at Brunel University to further his musical development. Whilst there, he met several kindred musical spirits! 

This path has slowly molded my creative output into its present incarnation which draws on source material ranging from synths and electronics to instrumental and environmental sounds. He tries to bring all these elements together to make something he calls "organic electronica", which I write and perform under the name Jonny Falls Over. I also write more acoustic / rock based material under the name Jung Sun.

His current projects (apart from teaching guitar and piano) include jointly co-ordinating Hamswell Festival (www.hamswellfestival.com) - a small festival of music and arts which takes place back in Somerset - and setting up the fledgling online record label, MyTea Records (www.mytearecords.com).

Mark Wilson

Mark started playing the guitar in his early teens and has been performing, recording, and writing with bands ever since.  At the age of 18 he decided to study music full time and completed a Higher National Diploma Course at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford.  Following that, he moved to London to study at the Guitar Institute, gaining a BA Honours Degree in Music.

Since then Mark has gigged up and down the country in various bands, ranging from rock and blues to funk, jazz, and soul.  He now spends his time teaching guitar for Scamps, performing with function bands and recording music for his solo project, ‘Quantum Somatic.’

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Simon Carnell

Based in Ealing (West London), Simon is an experienced performer and has been playing for over 13 years.  He successfully completed a diploma and degree in popular music performance at Drumtech Drum & Percussion School, linked to Thames Valley University.

Based in West London, he has been involved in many musically varied projects, playing with a number of noted bands and artists throughout the UK and Europe. As well as teaching, he now freelances with a number of bands and artists but regularly plays with 'Black Circles' a rocky originals band based in Manchester, 'Lisa Crawley' a singer songwriter from New Zealand and 'Fingermouse,' a function covers band.

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Ben Kinslow

After beginning his musical studies by learning the piano, Ben found his passion for music completed his GCSE in music two years early. He then realised that guitar was the instrument for him and took up the instrument aged 15. More recently, he successfully completed a BA Degree in Music Technology and uses the knowledge gained through that course to hone his understanding and knowledge the guitar, his main focus.

A versatile and dedicated performer, teacher and artist, when he’s not teaching he performs regularly in a semi-pro covers band, as well as other support and session gigs.

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Martin Newnhamn

Martin graduated from the prestigious London 'Guitar Institute' with a degree in Popular Music Performance, and since then has been teaching and working as a session musician in and around London. He is one of our longest serving tutors and has a real talent for getting the best out his students.

In addition to his teaching at SCAMPS and privately, he plays for various bands and production companies and is heavily involved in writing, performing, and studio work.

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Kevin Phillips

Kevin is a dedicated and fun, enthusiastic teacher who tries to put as much energy into his lessons as possible and always makes them enjoyable for his students.

He graduated from the Nexus Academy of Music in Coventry in 2005 with an OCR accreditation in music and biblical studies. He also took the Rockschool Grade 8 exam whilst he was there, attaining a distinction.

Although he has only been playing for a relatively short seven year period, during that time he has gained a good deal of teaching experience, and has completed many recording sessions with his own band and various other artists. In addition to teaching, he performs regularly with a function band called 'The Baxter Five' who specializes in funk and soul covers.

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