Music Foundation

A native of Canada, Liz has spent many years as Associate Conductor and Vocal Coach with major musical productions including US National and World Tours of Fosse, European Tour of Hair – the Love and Rock Musical, US National Tour of Sweet Charity, and Hairspray at the Charlottetown Festival of Canada. She also has also been a musical director and/or vocal coach on over 40 regional productions in three different countries.

Liz holds a Bachelor of Music Degree (Honours) from the University of Windsor (Canada) as well as two Masters of Music degrees, one from Arizona State University (Music Direction/Conducting, 2002) and the other from New York University (Piano Performance – Collaborative, 2009). Currently the Head of Music at the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, Liz has taught at universities, colleges, and led workshops in Canada, the US, and the UK.

Vicky Harrison is a music professional with expertise in singing, recording, producing, composition and live performance. Vicky is a teacher of Vocal Technique, Pop Music History, Recording and Sequencing, here at CSVPA. 

Working in the music industry, Vicky writes songs and vocals for advertising, television and film, and has released a number of records on labels (Hospital Records, Boka) and publishing companies (Sony, EMI). Vicky has worked with clients such as Mercedes, Vogue and Ellesse, and she has had her music featured on TV shows such as The X Factor, Big Brother and Top Gear, to name a few.

Vicky has a passion for performance technologies and has toured the UK, supporting artists such as Katy B and The Mystery Jets. She has extensive experience motivating and inspiring young people through music and performing arts.

A Kingston University Graduate, she has received UK and international radio play and produced a remix for Damian Marley and Nas. Sarah has also scored for independent films and TV shows, composed catwalk music for UK fashion weeks, and theme music for radio stations. Sarah’s recent work covers such diverse areas as composing for the highly respected documentary maker TEDx and producing for YouTube stars. She mentored young artists at a Big Music Hub for Capital FM’s Big Music Project, working alongside such artists as Chase and Status, Plan B, Eliza Doolittle and Becky Hill.

You can catch Sarah presenting on her radio show “Sazrah's Soul Food” which airs on Green Futures Festival Radio and in the summer she presents live from Glastonbury Festival.

Sarah also mentors upcoming artists in various artist development schemes and is strongly passionate about encouraging young people in the music industry.

Jeremy is a musician, composer, arranger, performer and teacher of music and music theory.  He has extensive experience in delivering whole class and individual instrumental tuition with schools, colleges, FE establishments and borough councils in London and the Cambridgeshire area.

Jeremy has spent many years working as a performer in various groups and ensembles, playing an eclectic mix of punk, folk, jazz, pop, rock and world music, as well as working as a session player.

After completing his formal academic musical training (BA Hons, Jazz/Popular Music/Contemporary Composition) at Middlesex and Kingston universities, Jeremy set up his own teaching company and worked extensively with London schools and borough councils in order to develop, promote and enhance the playing of music with children and young musicians in education.

He has taught a variety of musicians and performers of all ages and abilities, from year 1 ukulele/ guitarists to Ivor Novello and five times Grammy award winning singer songwriter Amy Winehouse.

Jeremy is an active musician and composer, creating, recording and producing from his home studio in Cambridge.  He is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays with musicians and groups in the local area.

As well as being a music teacher and facilitator, Jeremy is a DTLLS and CELTA trained English/ESOL teacher working in Cambridgeshire language schools.

Marcos is an active composer and cultural event organiser. His music has been performed by renowned soloists and ensembles around the world. Marcos holds a Batchelor in Composition Degree, from Universidad de Chile and a Master of Music, PhD in Music, from Kings College London.

Marcos loves inspiring students to explore unfamiliar music. He thrives on explaining the contextual information, which gave rise to different musical idioms during the 20th century.