Melissa Adams Keyboard Teacher, Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher, Singing Teacher
Melissa was first inspired to play music by her grandfather and his jazz band. He showed her the organ at the age of 4 and by 5, he taught her to read music and play piano. The first bass she ever played was an upright white acoustic that stood in the corner of his music room. Her grandparents provided music lessons from the age of 12 to 16 and she enjoyed studying more piano courses while attending college. At 16, she picked up her first guitar and at 19 took lessons in classical guitar. Melissa has had the privilege of inspiring many artists and musicians, and comes to us with 23 years experience teaching music lessons. Her gig experience ranges from setting up lights and equipment for venues to playing venues such as, clubs, bars, coffee shop, winery, recital halls, parks, church, side of the road, hotel lobby, and parties. Melissa joined School of Rock Colorado Springs in September 2021, and is currently inspiring and instructing students on keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, and vocals with her love for music in Colorado Springs.
Madeline Campbell Keyboard Teacher, Singing Teacher
Madeline is one of our singing and keyboard teachers at School of Rock Colorado Springs. She has been studying vocals for the past twelve years and is advanced in rhythmic and sight reading. Madeline has performed with the Colorado Springs Chorale and the 2018 All State Choir. She has also worked with children for the past ten years and has extensive experience with all age ranges and abilities. Madeline is thrilled to work at School of Rock Colorado Springs to continue her passion of teaching music to all!
Bret Chadwick Bass Guitar Teacher, Guitar Teacher, Singing Teacher
Bret is a bass, guitar and vocal teacher at School of Rock Colorado Springs. He has been involved in music for the better part of 50 years. He began training as a vocalist at the age of 6 and started trying out the guitar at age 9. He spent most of his time in high school in the chorus, performing in the Pop Choir, Chorale, Men's Quartet and the school choir. In his senior year, he was unanimously elected President of the choir. During these years Bret was able to get the rudimentary guitar instruction he sought. After this Bret pursued playing in bands, writing songs, and performing on stage while learning more about music every step on his journey.
John DeLoach Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher, Drum Teacher, Keyboard Teacher
John is a show director and guitar, bass, keyboard and drums teacher at our School of Rock Colorado Springs. He received two bachelors of science degrees from the University of Colorado-Denver, in both recording arts and music business. Since graduation, John released two full length solo albums, and produced a third for legendary trumpeter DJ Horn. Over the last two decades, he created numerous bands ranging, in genre, from metal to jazz. John also specializes in waveform synthesis and counterpoint composition. He loves all aspects of music and hopes teaching music can excite his passion in others. John listens mostly to progressive and experimental metal genres, but also dabbles in electronic compositions.
Mark Esch Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher
Mark is primarily a guitar teacher at Colorado Springs School of Rock. He has played guitar for 12 years and specializes in metal, rock, and jazz. Mark has an understanding of theory, technique, and effective practice habits that he has cultivated from earning his degree in jazz performance at the University of Northern Colorado. He also has experience teaching beginning to advanced players. Students looking for advanced techniques such as tapping, sweeping, alternate picking, hybrid picking, and economy picking will find explanations and improvement under Mark’s instruction. He is very dedicated to the guitar and hopes to extend the passion to students. Although Mark’s typical instruction is on guitar, he also offers bass and beginning to intermediate drum lessons.
Haven Johnson Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher, Drum Teacher, Singing Teacher
Haven Johnson has been involved in performing arts his whole life. He has an extensive background in performance including music, dance, acting, and theatre. Haven is currently studying film at the Colorado Film School in Denver, CO. He is excited to push students to reach their personal goals in music at School of Rock Colorado Springs.
Mike Lupton Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher, Keyboard Teacher, Singing Teacher
Mike is a guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and singing teacher at our school. A native of New Orleans, he received a soloist award from Loyola University Jazz Invitational for his saxophone performance. He studied music education at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has been touring and performing across the nation for over twenty years. He is very excited to teach at School of Rock Colorado Springs.
Ryan Michelson Keyboard Teacher, Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher
Ryan has taught music to hundreds of students of all ages for the past 5 years with a focus on theory, composition, and performance. Piano and guitar have been life-long instruments for him. He studied arts, music and audio production at Northwest Nazarene University as well as Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville. Soon after his time in school, he realized his passion for producing music and began teaching and performing out East. He has taught in several different schools and produced many titles for various artists. He truly loves to teach all that he knows to his students because music, he believes, is an essential part of life and knowing how it works is a gift that lasts forever.
Baylee Parks General Manager
Baylee is the General Manager at School of Rock Colorado Springs. Parks specializes in music management, performance, event coordination, production, and is intrigued by innovative and entrepreneurial avenues of the music industry. Parks graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music business from the University of Colorado and has worked for numerous organizations in Colorado Springs as an arts administrator, event planner, and a community outreach representative. Baylee has been heavily involved in performing, writing, and recording music for most of her life. Parks is classically trained in piano performance and has over 17 years of experience on the instrument. She is also a singing teacher, guitar teacher, trumpeter, and enjoys playing ukulele. Parks’ classical training led her to pursue new genres of music like country, blues, jazz, and, of course, rock! Parks released an EP in 2019 and continued writing new music until she finished a full length album in 2020. The local music community is rapidly growing and Baylee is eager to be an advocate for aspiring musicians through the programs at School of Rock Colorado Springs!
Ethan Parks Drum Teacher, Guitar Teacher, Bass Guitar Teacher, Keyboard Teacher, Singing Teacher
Ethan is a teacher and show director. He has been with School of Rock Colorado Springs from its inception in July 2020. He has professional experience in recording studios and live performances. Parks has a diverse set of interests and skills in genres ranging from classical and country, to metal and blues. Parks teaches keyboard, drums, guitar, bass, singing, ukulele. He enjoys being a part of students' musical journeys at School of Rock Colorado Springs!
Michael Robinson Drum Teacher, Guitar Teacher, Keyboard Teacher
Michael is one of School of Rock Colorado Springs’ primary show directors. He received his bachelor's degree in percussion from Fairmont State University in West Virginia, where he grew up. For almost 20 years, Michael has had a passion for music and one of his favorite things to do is to share that passion with each of his students. Michael has studied a vast array of areas within the percussion world. From rock, to jazz, to afro-cuban, even hand or keyboard percussion; he can guide students in any musical direction. Much of his time in college was spent studying the educational aspects of music. He has also studied various other instruments including guitar and keyboard. He has a love of punk rock and jam band scenes, where he has attended many concerts; and has performed in jazz and fusion style bands, where he found his love for performance. You can find him teaching several of our Performance and Rock 101 groups at Colorado Springs School of Rock, as well as drums, guitar, bass, and keyboard lessons.
Anthony Welch Drum Teacher, Guitar Teacher
Anthony Welch is a drum and guitar teacher at School of Rock Colorado Springs in Colorado. He’s performed as a drummer, guitarist and vocalist in the Southern Colorado music scene for 26 years and has toured professionally. These days, Anthony splits time performing locally and in Northern Colorado. He’s played the drums for 34 years, guitar for 23 and has been fronting bands as a vocalist for 20 years. Anthony’s a metal head at heart, but has an appreciation for all music. He enjoys seeing students getting excited to learn music of all genres.
Chetan Chanana Drum Teacher
Chetan has been playing the drums for 20 years and is as technically proficient as he is versatile across all genres of music. He attended The Musicians Institute in Hollywood in 2012 and graduated with an A.A. in percussion and the 'Most Valuable Student' award. Chetan has been playing and teaching professionally ever since, including teaching at the School of Rock in Southern California. Some notable accomplishments of Chetan's are recording albums with notable rock artists, touring nationally and internationally with reggae groups, and playing every year with rappers at Camp Floggnaw. Chetan's passion for music and music education is unmistakable, and he strives to share that passion with as many lives as possible.
Trinity Hernandez Singing Teacher
Trinity is one of the singing teachers here at School of Rock, Colorado Springs. She's been involved with music for 12 years and counting. Her musical journey began in elementary school choirs and talent shows, then continued throughout high school. She loves listening to, dancing to, and creating music. Due to lots of moving, Trinity got the chance to audition and make it into the highest choir groups of 4 different high schools. During sophomore year she began self-teaching piano, guitar, ukulele, and songwriting and went on to place top 3 in two talent shows. She now makes and releases her own music. After years of practice and perfecting, Trinity is excited to share her talents with, and learn more from, you rock stars!