Our Teachers

Brooke Johnson

Brooke is the Director of Melbourne Music Tuition. She holds both a Bachelor's Degree in Music from the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide and a Bachelor's Degree in Education. Brooke has spent her life in the performing arts and has performed in opera's, musicals, plays and eisteddfods. Following her Music Degree at the Adelaide Conservatorium Brooke began her teaching in Adelaide before moving to Country Victoria where she wrote her first Musical. Brooke has taught Piano, Singing and directed Choirs for the past 20 years. She is Kodaly trained and has taught singing students from primary level up to V.C.E as well as students seeking entry into University Music Degrees. Brooke has completed both Level 1 and 2 of the 'Estill Voice Training Course' ran by Naomi Eyers. She is very familiar with the AMEB syllabus across all instruments and encourages students to sit these when ready. Brooke was the conductor of the Kensington Primary Early Bird Singers for 7 years. The Early Birds performed at venues including the Melbourne Town Hall, Ballarat Art Gallery, Treasury House as well as opening the Spring Racing Carnival. She was also the organiser of the yearly choral event 'Warm Winter Voices'. Brooke has been the discipline chair for the choral section of the South Street Eisteddfod since 2023.

Piano and Voice

Fionn is a professional guitarist who has been playing and performing music for over 16 years. He has been an active songwriter, producer, teacher and collaborator over the course of his musical career. Fionn completed his Bachelor of Music Performance at the University of Westminster (London) in 2016 and shortly after moved to Australia where he began establishing himself as a producer and performer in the Melbourne music scene.

Fionn has performed in cities including London, Sydney and Melbourne and has been involved in several different original projects and collaborations with a variety of artists. Fionn has diverse experience from which he draws upon when working in an educational environment. With a vast background in music tuition to people of all ages, Fionn loves to share his passion for music.

Fionn Brewer

Guitar and Drums

Belinda Jenkin

Piano and Singing

Belinda is an actor, singer, pianist and writer/composer. She is a 2015 graduate of NIDA (DMT). She is also a graduate of America’s Musical Theatre Conservatory CAP21, NYC where she completed their Professional Musical Theatre Program. Belinda has been teaching piano and voice for the last 7 years in Melbourne and Sydney helping students improve their skills, prepare for AMEB exams, assist them for concert performances and gain musical scholarships.

Belinda’s composition and writing credits include several cabarets Practically Perfect, Kid, and the comedy trio Stacey and Co. Musical collaborations with William Hannagan include the song cycle Until Tomorrow and musical HouseWarming. HouseWarming was presented at The New York Musical Theatre Festival at Theatre Row 42nd Street. Under the new name The Gathering the production had its professional Melbourne staging at forty five down stairs in 2016 in Melbourne.

Some of her previous performance credits include; Eleanor, Summer Heights High (ABC), Magnormos’ Anyone Can Whistle, Melbourne Recital Centre, HouseWarming, TheatreWorks, Until Tomorrow, KIN Collaborative, Prick, the Athenaeum Theatre, Gilligan’s Island the Musical, Chapel off Chapel and most recently Olie in the new Australian play Chronic, at La Mama.

Violin and Viola

KATIANA

Cello, Violin, Piano

LILY

Piano, Singing and Violin

ISABEL

Piano

Katiana started her music studies with an emphasis on violoncello at the age of 8 at the Alvin Schutmaat Music School, under the guidance of maestro William Caviedes (2003-2005).

Due to her skills and discipline on the instrument, she joined the EMAS Symphony Orchestra at the age of 9, becoming the youngest member of the string section.In 2014, Katiana joined part the “Orquesta Sinfónica Metropolitana” de Barranquilla as leader of the cello section and started to work as cello and violin teacher at Alvin Schutmaat Music School.

In 2016 she received her Undergraduate Degree as "Maestro en Música" from the
University Corporation. Between 2016 and 2017 Katiana participated in the music festivals "Clinicas Instrumentales" and Cartagena International Music Festival in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. In 2019 Katiana moved to Australia and started to work as a cello and violin tutor at the Performing Arts Academy (Minpaa). Katiana also works at numerous primary schools in the North and West of Melbourne

Lily is a working performing artist with an interest in singing, dancing and acting as well as being a musician. Born in Ballarat, Lily began learning both the piano and violin at the age of 5. She continued her studies throughout her schooling, having the opportunity to play violin in string ensembles and orchestras, as well as playing piano and percussion in her school band. Lily has a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Federation University Arts Academy where she received a commendation from the Dean for her academic performance and commitment to her studies. Lily is very familiar with the AMEB syllabus having successfully completed examinations in Classical Voice, Piano, Violin, Music Theatre and Theory disciplines. Musical Theatre is Lily’s passion, performing in many community theatre productions both in Ballarat and Melbourne. When not on the stage, Lily loves being able to share her passion for music with younger students and is enjoying teaching across multiple primary schools.

Isabel is a classical pianist working as a performer, teacher, and accompanist. She started learning piano at the age of 6 and continued on to graduate with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Australia in 2023 and first-class Honours from the University of Melbourne in 2024. Her performance highlights include receiving the 2023 Mary Elizabeth McComas Piano scholarship, performing as a 2023 Young Artist in the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival in Italy, and performing chamber music in Melba Hall, Trinity Chapel, and Hanson Dyer Hall in Melbourne. Since graduating, she performs professionally as a chamber musician, theatre pianist, and choir accompanist, and has also composed and recorded film music. As a teacher she brings this range of experience and love of music to her lessons, with experience teaching at music schools and in private tuition. Isabel has been teaching piano for over 5 years and is familiar with the AMEB syllabus. She currently teaches at Kensington Primary.