Barnabas Music Academy

What an amazing performance! ⭐️🎵

Job Greuter was born in Amstelveen, The Netherlands. He studied Classical Music & Musical Theatre at the Conservatoire of Rotterdam, and recently completed his masters in Musical Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Since 2018, he has been working as a musician, performer, teacher and writer/composer.

Born in France in 1992, Denis has had a lifelong love of music and began playing piano at the young age of five. He had the opportunity to study at the Conservatoire Municipal of Bar Le Duc with the pianist and organist Thierry Colas, and later pursued his academic studies at the Conservatoire National de Musique et Danse in Nancy.
While at the Conservatoire National, Gravina received instruction in piano, music theory, harmony, and analysis from a variety of accomplished teachers as Jean Philippe Navarre, Axel Pierrard, Anca Teculescu, Aude Shumacher and many others.
Denis completed his BMus and MMus in Music Performance at the prestigious London College of Music, where he had the opportunity to study under Wilfrid Murray, Jeremy Davis, Natasa Sarcevic, Emilie Capulet, and Robert Sholl. Currently, he is a visiting teacher at the London College of Music and teaches for the ABRSM, LLCM, and Trinity programs.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Gravina continues to perform and give concerts and masterclasses in England, France, Italy and Turkey demonstrating his passion and dedication to the art of music especially about the composer Franz Liszt .
Denis is currently learning the repertoire of Franz Liszt with the pianist concertiste Graham Caskie.
Denis is artistic director for a festival in the east France in June 2024 with the collaboration of artist from Cuba, France and England.

Director of the Barnabas Music Academy, Gilbert is also a singer, guitarist and song writer who currently lives in London. Gilbert was born in Mauritius and started playing guitar and singing at a very young age. His music influences were Al Jarreau, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, & Georges Benson. Gilbert then spent several years playing Gospel & Worship music in churches.

His collaborations in music include famous musicians such as Abraham Laboriel (bass), Paul Jackson Jr (guitar), Michael Landau (guitar), Producer David Richards (Queen, David Bowie etc) and producer Tom Brooks (Integrity Music) to mention just a few.

Gilbert has recorded 8 albums and studied music at the EJMA (Jazz Music academy in Lausanne, Switzerland). Gilbert is director of GC Production, promoting modern Gospel music in Switzerland and around the world, and also two music schools (Psalmodia Oron & Vevey). He is the Worship Pastor of St Barnabas Church, Kensington.

Tania Park was born in South Korea and grew up in New Zealand where she completed her Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano with first class honors. Arriving in London after being invited to study in Guildhall School of Music and Drama by Martin Roscoe, she has completed Guildhall Artist Master of Performance programme with first class distinction, specializing in piano accompaniment.

Her particular passion for chamber music saw her win the Sir Edmund Hillary Chamber Music Competition in 2005 and 2006. She has also made frequent appearance in the concert platforms in New Zealand. Tania has been commanded in GSMD Accompanist Award in 2010 and was the winner of 2011 Chamber Music Awards in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe. As a devoted chamber musician, she has appeared in the lunchtime recital in Dartington International Summer School with Moana trio. Her other concert appearances include Leopold Mozart Zentrum (Augsburg, Germany), Regent Hall Oxford Circus, St Paul’s Covent Garden, and St James’s Piccadilly to name a few.

Tania enjoys teaching piano, and has helped students with competitions, exams, and conservatorium auditions successfully since 2004. She is currently teaching piano at St Barnabas and St Philips C of E School in Kensington.

Jamie was born in London into a family of performing artists. At the age of 8, he was accepted into the Junior Department of The Royal College of Music where he developed a passion for percussion.
Throughout his secondary education in Rome, he directed two percussion ensembles, performing in some of the most prestigious venues in Rome. Jamie graduated from the London College of Music (LCM), University of West London, with a first-class honours degree in Music Performance. He has appeared with
Steve Gregory - saxophonist on George Michael’s Careless Whisper. In 2019, Jamie made his debut at the London Coliseum with the English National Ballet Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also toured with the west-end show, The Simon & Garfunkel Story. Jamie currently records and plays for rap Artist, Luchi Blue, indie Artist, Joe Little and country music singer/songwriter, Caroline Vain. His love of playing Country and Gospel music has taken him to Switzerland and Nashville, Tennessee.

Chun-Wei was born in Taiwan but grew up in Switzerland. Starting the violin at the age of 8, he took second place at the Swiss National Music Competition for Youngster at the age of 13. Soon, he integrated the Haute Ecole de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion where he trained with world renowned violinists such as Gyula Stuller, Mirijam Contzen and Lihay Bendayan. He contributed to several productions and recordings in Switzerland France and the UK.

Even though he now works as a clinical data analyst, he still enjoys transmitting his musical knowledge and expertise to beginners and intermediate players.

Timi is a Second-year student studying at London College of Music. He has been a Singer and guitar player for 20 years in France and recently found his passion for bass.

Although mostly performed and recorded popular genres such as blues, rock, funk, country, Bossa Nova, and gospel, he is currently expanding his knowledge and practice on Classical, Jazz, and Musical Theatre with the London College of Music.

Timi has performed in various performance settings for function bands, weddings, and funerals in France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Madagascar.

Mahlia has a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music where she is studied Musical Theatre. Prior to RAM, she attended the Arts Educational School for one year where she had the opportunity to follow the Musical Theatre Foundation Course.

She is also a songwriter and she plays piano, she has great harmonizing and Music Theory Skills.

Mahlia was also part of the Jam Theatre Company in London, where she made many representations such as Wednesday in The Addams Family, she was a singer in The Alfresco Festival, but also Clea in The Black Comedy.

Sophie Annesley has always been passionate about singing. She can’t remember a time when she wasn’t putting on performances or writing little songs.

She completed a degree in classical voice with first-class honors in 2017. And she has taught singing and piano since 2013.

Sophie has been a part of many musical groups, from rock cover bands to musical theatre troupes, to opera companies, to a jazz bass and voice duo, to her latest musical project, little endian.

Yesterday, 17th of December, we enjoyed beautiful Carols by candlelight at the church!! 🎄🕯️

You are all more than welcome to come at our Christmas services (24.12, 11pm/25.12, 10.30pm) 🌟