The team of teachers of the Sound Community consists of driven, professional pop musicians with a lot of stage experience. For our team, it is important that the student enjoys making music.
Founder of Sound Community.
Band: HHB international
Education: Rockacademie, Tilburg
Alexander is a tight drummer and a team player. He finds it important that his band is sociable, because that way you can make better music. He gives his drum lessons with this in mind.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2019
Bands: Rondé & Naaz
Education: CODARTS Popacademie, Rotterdam
Teun Dillisse (24), studied at the Conservatory of Rotterdam. As a keyboard player, he plays with various artists such as Rondé & Naaz. Teun also writes songs together with other musicians in his own studio.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2012.
Bands/acts: Play me a memory, Bikini Blues Band, etc.
In addition to being a keyboardist, Mark is also a producer and has a number of hits to his name nationally and internationally. He is creative, very musical and loves to convey that to his students.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2021
Floris is a versatile guitarist with a great passion for the electric guitar. He has played in bands for years and is now active in the studio. Because he likes many genres, he can handle any student. He is friendly, flexible and patient.
Bands: Erik Reino, Artist with work under own name, YouTuber, blogger, songwriter, music teacher/coach.
Education: HBO, Haarlem Conservatoire.
Erik is a versatile musician with endless musical interests. His main instrument is the guitar, but he also knows his way around singing, piano, bass guitar and the ukulele. This musical jack-of-all-trades can of course teach you how to play the guitar, but can also help you, for example, how to write your own song, or how to sing together with your instrument. Erik always looks at which person he has in front of him. Every student is unique, and goes through his or her own development, so no lesson is the same twice.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2012.
Bands: Dennis Kolen (singer-songwriter), Simon and Garfunkel Acoustic and HHB International.
Besides being a guitarist, Dennis is a singer-songwriter and has already released 11 solo albums. He performs regularly. He gives his students a lot of space to indicate what they want to learn.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2018.
Bands: Mayin
Education: CODARTS Popacademie Rotterdam
Misha Wong; a musician with two feet in the box, preferably on stage. Besides being a performer, she is also a singing teacher. She is our singing teacher, but can also help with accompaniment on guitar and piano. She started making music as a small child and has never lost that drive. She likes to pass it on to her students. Misha graduated from the Rotterdam Conservatoire.
Has been teaching at Vocal Center since 2016
Bands/acts: a.o. dinner shows and backing vocals with various artists in the Netherlands.
Education: Dutch Academy of Performing Arts and training as a vocal coach at Vocal Center
Genre: pop, rock, jazz and musical.
Nicole is an all-round singer/artist and loves to share her experiences to help her students with their singing. It doesn't matter whether you are a beginner or a professional. Coaching students, making them enthusiastic and helping them further, is what she likes doing most. For more information, please visit www.vocalcenter.nl
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2015.
Bands/acts: Latoya London, Rita Zipora, Michelle Courtens, and many others. Drummania.com
Education: Musicians Institute, Los Angeles (USA)
Jasper is creative and always very positive. He has studied with the best drummers in the world at the famous Musicians Institute in Los Angeles (USA). All his knowledge and experience has made him what he is today. A top drummer who can inspire students.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2022
Teun played a lot in theater, on the radio and on pop stages. He mainly wrote his own material, so besides learning to play the guitar he can also help you write your own songs. He is a patient teacher, who thinks it is important to have fun playing your instrument, while he also makes sure you get better at it.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2022
Education: Codarts conservatory in Rotterdam
Martijn studies at the conservatory of Rotterdam and is a true all-rounder with as much experience in pop, as in jazz and classical. Over the years he has played in large orchestras, small (cover) bands, with DJs and everything in between. While teaching he pays a lot of attention to what the student likes and wants to learn, in order to build the relationship between student and instrument completely on fun and curiosity from the beginning.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2021
Bands: Third Party
Nathanaël Jusia began as a drummer and was taught by one of the Sound Community teachers. The passion struck and he began to learn more and more instruments including piano. Nathanaël now composes and produces for TV documentaries, short films and plays in his neo soul/hip hop band Third Party.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2022
Noah studies songwriting at Rotterdam Conservatory where he writes all his songs on piano and sings himself. From a young age, his passion was the combination of playing and singing, so he found traditional piano lessons difficult to sustain. By writing his own songs and accompanying himself on the piano, Noah really figured out how the piano works. In lessons, he likes to look for the connection the student has with the piano and respond accordingly.
Has been teaching at Sound Community since 2023.
Bands: Hermes House Band
Sebastiaan is a young drummer who plays in the Hermes House Band with which he has many gigs at home and abroad such as Dubai and Bangkok. He actively teaches where the students then actively and joyfully participate to tackle new challenges.
Has been teaching drums since 2020, started at Sound Community in 2023.
Bands: a.o. SULTAN., NOHMI, Young Metropole
Studied at Codarts, Guildhall School of Music and Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Auke is a versatile drummer who performs throughout the country in genres ranging from jazz to punk. In Auke's lessons, a personal approach is key where he bases his lessons on the student's musical tastes and learning preferences.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2023
Education: Codarts jazz department
Adriaan is a young enthusiastic drummer who has been playing drums since he was eight years old. He studies at the Codarts conservatory in Rotterdam.
Engaged in both rock, pop and jazz, he performs with both his jazz quintet and his rock band. He is in front of the class with as much energy as he is behind the drum kit, takes all the time he needs for the student and teaches in a versatile way.
Has been teaching at the Sound Community since 2022
Jaco Oskam is a guitarist and singer-songwriter. He studies at the conservatory of Rotterdam and plays guitar in the band of JOLENE, among others. He also makes music as Jaco Falcon and performs a lot with his own band.