About Us
The Note Warehouse, a Music School in Yatton. A Music School offering Instrumental, Vocal and Music Theory lessons for all ages and abilities alongside a Coffee shop serving locally sourced coffee, teas and cakes!
Offering private instrumental, singing and music theory lessons to children and adults of all abilities in our amazing acoustic friendly pods. All students are offered the opportunity to study for examinations following the ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and Rockschool syllabus.
All teachers have up to date enhanced DBS checks and each teacher has their own public liability.
Opening Times
Monday - Friday
10am - 8pm
Saturday
10am - 4pm
On Monday morning we are closed for Private Workshops, then open again at 3-8pm term times.
Opening times may be subject to change
Public Holidays – The Note Warehouse will be CLOSED.
The Team
Hollie-anne Bangham
Founder of The Note Warehouse
Director/ Singing/Piano/Music Theory Tutor MMUS, PGDIP, BMUS Hons, MISM
Hollie-anne originally from Cleeve, has returned home to establish The Note Warehouse. A trained Opera singer completing a Masters of Music, Postgraduate Diploma and Bachelors of music with honours at the Royal Northern College of music, all with first class classification. As a soloist she performs up and down the country in many prestigious venues as well as internationally, recently touring in Italy, Ukraine and Paris. Singing with many companies including Garsington Opera, Opera Holland Park and English Touring Opera.
Alongside performing Hollie-anne has found a huge passion in teaching, with over 10 years experience. An established Singing, Piano and Music theory tutor with a 100% pass rate for students taking ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and Lamda exams. Alongside one to one lessons Hollie-anne has a vast teaching experience as a coach, particularly for West End children agencies, working as lead tutors in many theatre schools across the country to conducting and leading choirs/ workshops, including working for the BBC. Hollie-anne is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
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Nicola Bradshaw
Violin
Hi, my name is Nicola Bradshaw. I have a BA (Hons) in music and a CT ABRSM in instrumental teaching. Since 1995 I've worked as a peripatetic instrumental teacher for Avon and then North Somerset Music Service. In that time I have worked with all age-groups from Pre-school children in the Young Strings Project and school transition events to conducting the Senior orchestra on a Saturday morning and all ages in between! I currently teach Primary school age children in the North Somerset area and have recently become more involved in the music at my local church, conducting the choir and playing in the services. I've played in many groups and orchestras in the local area over the years - most recently the West Mendip Orchestra.
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Bridget Page
Piano / Flute / Recorder / Music Theory
As a Grade 8 flute and piano student, I went on to attend Bath Spa University and obtained a BA (Hons) qualification in Music which was followed by a PGCE in Primary Education. As a qualified teacher, I have worked all over the UK in various settings, most recently as a peripatetic teacher for the North Somerset Music Service. I have taught music to a wide span of age groups from nursery children in my Mother and Baby classes to adults who have wanted to learn an instrument in later life. I am experienced in teaching beginners as well as more advanced learners and preparing students for ABRSM and Trinity graded exams.
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Sophie Isaacs
Singing teacher Online
Sophie most recently appeared as Principal Girl in Pantoland at the London Palladium having just finished starring in the smash hit Six the Musical playing the role of Katherine Howard in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre. Her previous credits include:
Theatre credits Includes: Goldilocks, Goldilocks and the Three Bears (London Palladium) Annette Hargrove Cruel Intentions (Edinburgh Festival) Heather McNamara, Heathers The Musical (The Other Palace and Theatre Royal Haymarket) Janet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (European Tour) Frenchy, Grease (Leicester Curve) Ensemble cover Lauren, Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre), Sandra Beaumont Made In Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), Fairy Willow Web Robin Hood (Cambridge Theatre) Amber Von Tussle Hairspray (Kuala Lampur & Singapore) Margot Legally Blonde the musical, Beauty Sleeping Beauty (Richmond theatre), Joanne Godspell (Union theatre) Toffee Zombie Prom (Landor theatre)
Television Includes: Molly Montgomery in Hollyoaks -
Rachel Bowers
Piano / Music Theory / Cello / Double Bass Tutor
Rachel is a qualified piano teacher (LRSM in piano teaching) and has been teaching for nearly 30 years. She teaches Classical and Jazz piano, as well as more popular styles, to both adults and children at beginner and intermediate levels
She taught piano, keyboard, accordion, cello and double bass for B&NES Music Service and for North Somerset Music Service, and was a string tutor at the orchestral Music Centres of both organisations.
Rachel has been a piano accompanist to several drama groups and choirs. She is also a church organist.
She has played cello in various amateur orchestras and ensembles, and currently plays with a local orchestra and a string quintet. She has also played the accordion with a folk band and a Jazz ensemble. -
Dan Ball
Guitar / Bass Guitar / Drums
Dan Ball has been an active musician for over 15 years, playing bass guitar for international touring acts such as AC/DC tribute band 'Hells Bells', and London based original artists including 'Sheen', 'Just Kids' and 'Arnie Wrong'. He is a multi-instrumentalist and backing singer, playing guitar, bass and drums, and has been a private tutor of guitar and bass guitar at many points in the past 10 years. Dan currently works with 'Hells Bells', local covers act 'Bombshell', a wedding/function group called 'The Walker Close Band' and records his own music under the name 'Leveller'.
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Tony Paynter
Ukulele / Electric Guitar / Acoustic Guitar
I have played guitar for 50 years, playing in various covers /original music bands, I am at present lead guitar/ backing vocal in local Band “Caught on the Back Foot”, which have been together since 2012 with some member changes along the way! We are a classic rock covers band and play in many pubs and clubs around the south west, recently we have introduced some original material into the set and are currently producing a cd of our songs.
I have been teaching guitar for the last 10 years which I thoroughly enjoy and I have experience with RGT/LCM grades. -
Francesca Danti
Drums
Francesca Danti (Fra) is a professional drummer and drum teacher based in Bristol since 2019.
Teaching others is a rewarding and important part of her career. Fra always delivers her lessons with fun and positivity. The great teachers she had the luck to work with inspired her creativity and training. Fun and positivity are fundamental to encouraging students to believe more in themselves, without comparisons, as everyone can achieve what they want in so many beautiful ways.
Fra has trained and grown up as a professional artist and musician in Italy since 2008. There, she developed her performing skills and began to combine them with music, composing several original drums and vocal recordings for live theatre shows. She studied at New Generations Drums School in Italy directed by Marco Confetti, and to refine her technique and improvisation skills, she studied with the private Italian teachers Davide Malito Lenti and Paolo Mauro (Tuscany, Italy). In Bristol, she currently teaches private drums lessons and plays drums for two bands: a funk-based groovy band called “Hot Contents” and an instrumental- math rock band called O`mvros since 2019.
In 2017 she attended the International School of Performances directed by Firenza Guidi, where she played drums and performed together with many other artists from all over the world.
From 2018, in Bristol, she started her 3-year course in Contemporary Circus and physical theatre at Circomedia. With Circomedia, she had the opportunity to develop her circus skills and combine them with her drums on stage in a drums & aerial piece.
Fra has also improvised drums for Charlie&Jake,a music duo based in Bristol who combine music with poetry. -
Anna Day
Singing Tutor/ The Note Choir Leader
Anna is a professional singer originally from the South west. Classically trained at Churchill, going on to study Jazz and popular music performance at Southampton University and then the Bristol Institute of Music.
Anna has performed all over the UK and in Europe. She has 10 years + of teaching experience and plenty of choir leadership experience.
Anna also leads The Note Community Choir which takes place on Wednesday evenings at 6-7pm in our Coffee Shop at The Note Warehouse. -
Michael Loader
Trumpet Teacher
Hello my name is Michael Loader and I've been playing trumpet since I was 10, from which I had the opportunity to travel to France, Germany and Canada with bands and orchestras until I was 16.
As well as playing and teaching trumpet I am a storyteller working with people of all ages after qualifying with a B Ed Hons teaching degree.
My approach to teaching is to find out what the student wants, from getting a good sound (which takes patience and practise), playing tunes to scales, from improvising to playing by ear - where 'enjoyment' takes priority.
After taking a break from trumpet to concentrate on being a husband, dad and my storytelling career I got back into trumpet through jumping into Jazz - fulfilling a teenage ambition - and now play funk, soul and groove with Locked Horns.
I still thank my Dad for giving me the chance to play; music is a special place to be. -
Dawn Mcghee
Piano and Singing | B.Ed Hons, DipLCM Music Theatre (Singing)
Dawn started her career as a classroom music teacher in the South East where she taught music in several schools. She moved to North Somerset with her family and in 2004, joined North Somerset Music Service where she stayed until 2020. She has Grade 8s in piano and flute from her college days and has taught flute, keyboard, ukulele and guitar.
Dawn started taking singing lessons in 2010 which was relatively late in life. She says that these turned out to be a powerful and life changing experience: as well as giving her the confidence to perform, they helped her find her voice in lyric and song writing. Wanting to learn more about song writing, Dawn enrolled on several of Berklee Music School's online courses and has been writing songs ever since.
Dawn has been teaching singing for over 12 years and has prepared numerous pupils for singing exams with LCM, Trinity and Rockschool with a 100 % pass rate. She has prepared pupils for school concerts, competitions, college auditions and run choirs.
Since 2020 Dawn has been self-employed teaching singing and piano. Her piano pupils are currently preparing for either Rockschool or ABRSM jazz exams…. or just learning for fun. -
James Elliott
Guitar
James has been playing guitar for over 25 years. Though initially drawn to the instrument by its wide range of expression and a love of Blues and Rock, he has studied and performed styles ranging from Blues and Rock to Jazz, Soul and Funk. Through countless hours of dedication to the instrument, he has encountered every pitfall and struggle a student might face and offers expert guidance on navigating these so that the journey of learning to play guitar can be as enjoyable and rewarding as it should be. Whether your aim is to accompany yourself or others as a rhythm guitarist, play along with your favourite songs, play lead guitar in a band or anything in between, he's got you covered.
He also offers string changes, basic guitar set-up and maintenance to ensure your instrument is playing great and to allow you to concentrate on what matters. -
Stephanie Stanway
Online singing tutor
Stephanie is an opera singer from Glasgow. A Samling Artist, she is a graduate from the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Before studying at the RCS, Stephanie graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a BMus with honours and PGDip (distinction). Stephanie is the recipient of the Ye Cronies Opera award The Dame Eva Turner Vocal Prize
Stephanie has had the privilege of singing all over the UK with companies including Scottish Opera, Opera Bohemia and Radius Opera. When she is not performing Stephanie loves bringing singing and music to people and communities highlighting the joy and art of singing and music making. -
Tom Bradley
Drums
Tom has worked as a professional drummer since 2011, during which time he has worked in multiple areas of the music industry. Performance experience includes hundreds (if not thousands) of shows ranging from function work to theatre shows, festivals and pubs/clubs. Tom has played for countless bands with genres spanning from pop and rock to jazz, funk, heavy metal, Americana, disco, reggae and more. He currently runs his own south-west based function band in addition to freelance dep work for other artists.
Teaching experience includes senior lecturer positions at both BIMM University and The Academy of Music and Sound (AMS) - delivering drum classes at both further and higher education level. Tom has also delivered specialist content for Rhythm Magazine and MusicRadar, including a hybrid drumming column, gear demos and reviews. He also runs a private teaching practice in Portishead which caters for children and adults of all ability levels, both face-to-face and online. Tom has a first class BA (Hons) in music, and a post-graduate level PGCert qualification in teaching and learning plus a long background in working with children. He is also a member of the Vic Firth Education Team and a Roland Tutor Ambassador and an endorsee of Evans drumheads, Protection Racket cases and Porter and Davies monitoring systems.
Website: www.tombradleymusic.com -
Tom Bradley
Drums
Having played drums for over 40 years, I am an experienced and enthusiastic drum kit performer. I have tutored and supported individuals of all ages and abilities to learn and develop drumming skills. I am an advocate of drumming rudiments but also encourage free form and musical experimentation. Enabling individuals to have the knowledge and physical skills to better realize their drumming and rhythmic ambitions. My philosophy is that drumming is good for your physical and mental health. Drumming is for everyone, at all abilities. I believe that it will open up many opportunities, as a Musician and most importantly, it’s really great fun!
I originally trained with a Royal Artillery drummer but later studied with the Drummers Focus Drum School in Munich, Germany and Drumeo. I have also achieved graded examination success with Trinity Guildhall.
I am a semi-professional drummer and tutor and have performed in many bands and situations covering a wide range of music genres from big/swing band, musicals/pantomimes and rock and pop music. I have shared that enthusiasm and enjoyment with numerous students, that I have had the pleasure to tutor and mentor.
I have recorded many times in studios, including a session at Air Studios in London, with various semi-professional bands and artists.
I have successfully delivered private drumming lessons in Munich, Germany and in the UK and look forward to tutoring you.