Our Instructors – Bass

Justin is a singer/songwriter, bass player, and guitarist with a Bachelor of Music degree from Humber College, focused on performance and production. He is also an honours Graduate from the Mohawk College Applied Music program. He has received multiple awards and nominations from the Hamilton Music Awards including winner of the Bassist of The Year in 2007 and a nomination for Adult Alternate Album of The Year for his first LP entitled Black Bay Nocturnes in 2014. He was chosen out of many applicants for a grant from the Ontario Arts Council for songwriting and recording and has numerous albums available on all online listening platforms. Justin releases music under his own name and as part of The Dunlop Brothers, whose second album Vol.2 will be released later this year. He has also performed and recorded as a side man for Juno Award winning singer/songwriter Harrison Kennedy, and currently works and records with another Juno Award winning talent, Tomi Swick. 

Patrick is a graduate of Carleton University where he holds a BA in History, but his real passion has always been music, specifically the recording arts. While recording some music with Hemispheres co-founder Rob Cutting, it occurred to them that Patrick’s recording expertise could be applied to teaching people how to use the incredible technology available to every Mac/iPad or even iPhone owner and design a course to create personalized recording projects using GarageBand or Logic Pro, regardless of your level of musicianship or previous recording experience. Maybe you are familiar with GarageBand and just need some extra guidance? Perhaps you’d like to write a song and build a track from scratch? Don’t play an instrument? No problem. Patrick will help you start making your own music!