Tutors

Point Blank is known for providing successful, industry-active professionals with a passion for youth work. This ensures that your pupils gain professional insights into the working world whilst learning a creative skill from an inspiring mentor. All tutors have up-to-date CRB checks and undergo our OCN accredited Workshop Skills course.

JC Concato - Head of College
JC's previous projects include production, engineering and remix work for the likes of Bjork, Portishead, The Cure, Erasure, Allister Whitehead, Galliano, Pressure Drop, Raggatwins and Renegade Soundwave. His career as a sound engineer began in 1993 at London's famed Matrix studios and JC has produced work for numerous record labels including Chrysalis, EMI, Sony, Warner and Blue Note. His work has also appeared on TV and in film projects.

Phil Ramocon - Songwriting and Vocals Tutor
Phil is a hugely experienced musician who has performed with everyone from Jamelia to reggae legends Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. He co-wrote "Buffalo Stance" with Neneh Cherry which was nominated for both an Ivor Novello award and a Grammy. He's also done extensive remix and production work and is a very experienced music teacher at diploma and degree level.

Ian Prince - Music Production Tutor
A Grammy Award winning writer and producer, Ian has worked with some legendary music industry figures including Quincy Jones, LA & Babyface, Al Jarreau, Arthur Baker and Earth Wind & Fire. Ian is also an accomplished keyboard player and has credits on a string of Gold and Platinum selling records including a US number one Billboard hit.

Lucy Ambache - Radio Production Tutor
Lucy hosts the UK's premier urban Breakfast Show on Choice FM, Monday to Friday from 6-10am. She recently hosted the DJ Takeover show on MTV Base and is also known to rock the party at landmark clubs including Ministry of Sound, The Hacienda, and The End. Lucy's deck skills have taken her all over the UK and internationally to France, Spain, Ireland, Thailand, Austrailia. Along the way she has shared the turntables with Roni Size, Trevor Nelson, Grooverider, and The Chemical Brothers.

Tamsin AKA Concise One - MC Tutor
Tamsin is talented lyricist, rapper and MC and a writer and performer of poetry/Spoken Word. As an inspiring youth leader she is a committed practitioner of the Arts. She also interviews other artists for the web and runs her own foundation. Listen to Concise One's music here, read her poetry here and see her live here

                          
Ian Button - Live Sound / Music Production Tutor
As guitarist with acclaimed band Death in Vegas, Ian has played gigs all over the world and recorded with the likes of Iggy Pop, Liam Gallagher and Paul Weller. Ian has also worked with artists including Arthur Baker, Dot Allison and Brandon Block and has amassed a wealth of experience in the music industry - all of which he's keen to pass on to you!

Tanné Roos - Film Making Tutor
Tanné is a South African film graduate currently working as a film tutor and teaching assistant in London. She's been assistant director for a theatre production in Canada in association with ArtSmarts and has worked as a researcher for film-to-book adaptations. Since the age of 13, Tanné's been passionate about film. She's directed several Top 10 chart music videos for South African TV and has directed and acted in various short films, adverts and PSA's. 

Andrea Kempson - Singing and Songwriting
A Goldsmiths graduate, Andrea now works with Point Blank as a singing & songwriting tutor and project coordinator. Whilst at uni she was involved in varying community projects ranging from music classes with very young children to rehabilitation work with young offenders. She set up her own project featuring music students from Goldsmiths  workshops at Kids Co youth centre in Brixton. This inspired her to pursue music within the community specialising in teaching young people with disabilities.

Ben Bristow - Head DJ Tutor
Mr Bristow has flexed the decks alongside acts such as DJ Yoda, Shy FX, Stig of The Dump, The Freestylers, Bad Company, Randall, Shut Up n Dance, Blakey, The Drunken Allstars and Foreign Beggarz to name but a few. He has instructed some high profile students in his time as a DJ tutor, including Radio 1's Annie Nightingale and the star of Chris Morris's twisted comedy 'Nathan Barley'.

Rickardo Reid -  Songwriting Tutor
Rickardo has played keyboards with internationally successful bands including Raw Stylus and Kreuz and lent his writing, production and remix talents to a wealth of other artists. Among them are Destiny's Child, Mica Paris, Mariah Carey, Craig David, Mary J Blige and Miss-Teeq. This kind of experience is invaluable in helping students to get creative with their songwriting and production and exploring the workings of the music industry.

Tracie Storey - DJ Tutor
Tracie Storey is better known as 10 Sui. Heralded as ‘The First Lady of Breaks' she has shared the decks with the likes of Josh Wink, Funk D'void, Silicon Soul, Coldcut and Freeland to name but a few. Over the last 10 years, she has carved her niche in a very competitive industry and has played sets across the globe including tours of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US. Tracie is currently hosting the "Tweakin'" radio show on Samurai FM.

Anna Kiss - DJ Tutor
Resident DJ in Ayia Napa in summers 2001 & 2003, playing at UKG, DnB & House nites in most of the clubs. - Weekly radio shows on 2 UKG Award winning stations; Freeze 92.7fm & www.majorfm.com - Has played many venues in London and as far afield as Aberdeen. International venues include Manheim, Germany & Warsaw, Poland. Update on activity: - currently in the studio producing first UKG track.

Big Ted - Radio Production Tutor
Big Ted's hip hop shows on Kiss with Shortee Blitz have a massive audience plus many awards and nominations - Best Specialist Radio Show at the Sony Awards, 3 Best Radio Show Awards at the UK Hip Hop Awards and Lyric Pad - Best Radio Show 2004, to name just a few. He also tours with MOBO winning  artist Blak Twang and has appeared at Glastonbury, Reading, Radio 1's Big Sunday alongside Destiny's Child, Xzibit, Busta Rhymes and Nas. Ted is also presents on Trouble, Kiss TV and Hits TV.

Ben Medcalf - Music Production Tutor
Ben Medcalf aka The Rogue Element will be well known to breakbeat fans,  won  "Best Breakthrough" and a nomination for "Best Album" at the 2006 Breakspoll Awards. He has  released a string of acclaimed singles winning DJ support from the likes  of James  Zabiela, Meat Katie, Etienne de Crecy and Deadmau5. His DJ sets have rocked  dancefloors across the globe from Europe to the US and Australia.

Erran Baron Cohen - Songwriting Tutor
Producer Erran has had extensive experience both live and in the studio. He has worked with bands including Incognito, Terry Callier, Larry Adler and M People. Work credits  include collaborations with Grammy award-winner Narada Michael Walden. His band Zohar released their album to critical acclaim and supported the release with extensive touring including appearances at major festivals. More recently, Erran scored the Borat movie soundtrack and wrote a symphony that was performed at St James in Piccadilly.

Nils Johnson - Sound Engineering/Mixing Tutor
As a Sound Engineer/Producer Nils has worked with a wide variety of artists from Groove Armada to Estelle. His production work has been used for various advertising campaigns in Europe and the US. Nils has worked at some of the London's most renowned studios and live venues and has considerable experience as a mastering engineer. He started out as a DJ for various soundsystems eg Exodus and he regularly DJs at various venues in the UK and overseas, most notably at Ibiza superclub Pacha.

Chad Jackson - Music Production Tutor
Chad Jackson is best known for the classic "Hear The Drummer Get Wicked" which went straight to the top of charts around the world including Number 1 in the UK Dance Charts and Number 2 in the UK National Chart. He's also remixed the likes of Run DMC, De La Soul, Mantronix and Beats International and won the Technics/DMC World DJ Mixing Champion at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1987. In short, Chad is a true originator...

Steve Hillier- Songwriting Tutor
As a founder member of the band Dubstar, Steve wrote eight of the bands nine Top 40 singles and sold over half a million records in the process. He has subsequently contributed to songwriting projects for artists including Tom Jones, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Sugababes and Natalie Imbruglia. Steve also co-wrote and played on Mark Owen's Top 5 single "Four Minute Warning" which stayed in the UK top 40 for 7 weeks.

Danny Lewis - Music Production Tutor/Web Development
Since his debut, the club No.1 and national Top 30 hit 'Spend the Night', Danny's music has been supported by Masters at Work, Gilles Peterson, David Morales, Kenny Carpenter, Todd Edwards, Todd Terry, and Danny Rampling to name a few. He's recorded for Defected, Ministry Of Sound, Afroart Records, Bitasweet, Coopr8, Lovemonk, XL Recordings and more. Now working as 'Enzyme Black', Danny is currently signed to 4th Floor/Defected and runs his own label.

Jos Jorgenson - Songwriting Tutor
As a writer/producer Jos has had a handful of number 1 albums around the world, several top 10 European singles and written the theme music for various TV shows including The X Factor and America's Got Talent. Amongst other things he also manages MLTR - arguably the biggest western band in Asia: so far they have sold over 10 million albums!! Since starting out as a studio assistant in Toronto at the age of 18. He worked with many great artists and bands including Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel.

Paul Waller- Music Production/Workshop Skills Tutor
You will find Paul's name on several million selling records from the last 20 years including Massive Attacks' "Unfinished Sympathy", Bjork's "Debut ", and Spice Girls singles "Goodbye" and "2 Become 1".  A pioneer on the UK House scene he went on to produce some of the biggest hits in UK R&B including Shola Ama's "You Might Need Somebody". Among the many artists on Paul's list of credits are Soul II Soul, All Saints, De La Soul, Gang Starr, Digital Underground, Art of Noise and Gil Scott Heron.

Ian McKenzie - Music Production Tutor
Ian has produced a wealth of house and garage tracks including the UK Top 10 hit 'Freak Like Me' plus dancefloor anthems including 'Dinamite' and 'Mr Big'. His remix and production credits include Pink and Shola Ama. Ian has played live and recorded with Geno Washington, Dexy's Midnight Runners and Edwin Starr, and is currently playing with a band featuring members of Brand New Heavies and Primal Scream. He plays drums, keyboards, bass & lead guitar.

Dave Ital - Session Guitarist
Dave has been one of the UK's top session guitarists for over 20 years working live and recording with the likes of Craig David, Sugababes, Liberty X, LL Cool J, Redman, Adam F, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Beverly Knight, Candi Staton, Bobby Womack, Desree and up and coming Brit R&B artists Taio Cruz and Nathan. Dave regularly records acoustic and electric guitar sessions with students on the Sound Engineering Course here at Point Blank.

Fari Bardley - Radio Tutor
Fari has been part of music collective Resonance FM for four years, producing CDs, radio shows, events and performances. She has performed on BBC London as the commissioned artist for London Mela 07and at UK festivals including Bestival and the V Festival. Her live performances and laptop DJ sets take in everything from Indian classical and ancient ragaas to drum and bass and have featured at the ICA, Thames Festival, Big Green Gathering and Asian Mela-London.

Nigel Hosten - DJ Tutor
Nigel Hosten (aka Mr. Dex) has over 10 years DJ experience and has been tutoring since 2006. He has worked as a radio, tour (Saga's of Klashnekoff) and club DJ and performed at venues throughout London including Jazz Café and Fabric. His accomplishments include guest appearances on Kiss FM and support act performances for artists including Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface and Raekwon.

Jim Coles aka 2tall - DJ Tutor
Jim Coles aka 2tall, has been a DJ since 1995 and releasing music under various guises since 2001 - he is a winner of the world-renowned DMC championships and  a well respected turntablist. He has taught with Point Blank since 2003 working as community music tutor in the fields of DJing and Production.

Adam Ryzman - Music Video Production/Film Making Tutor
Adam is a director, editor and animator and has produced music videos for The Fall, The Beautiful South and has been commissioned by EMI, Sony BMG and Universal. On many projects, Adam works with underprivileged children. He has worked in schools, colleges and community centres, motivating hard to reach young people and adults, including themes such as an anti-drugs/anti-social behavioural awareness to be shown at schools throughout the UK.