Silverscope UK Music Industry Courses in Malta

The Course Lecturer will be former Warner Music, IMN, BBC Radio 2 and IMP A&R man Richard Rogers. He has worked in the music industry for over 25 years and has set up both record companies and publishing companies worldwide. He received an A&R award for outstanding contribution to the BBC in 2005 and an award from London newspaper 'The Evening Standard' for Album of the Year with one of the artists on his own record label in 1998. As a songwriter Richard has written with artists such as Amy Studt, Gary Numan, The Prodigy, Phil Harding (Kylie, Boyzone, Dead Or Alive), Eden James, Dennis Conoley (T.Rex, Billy Ray Martin), Johnny Warman (Ringo Starr, Beatles), Lucinda Sieger, Pat Moi and Will Kevans amongst many others.
Richard has been a songwriter, a producer, a promoter and even a singer in the industry over the years and managed the famous bass player Mick Karn (Japan, Kate Bush, Phil Collins, Pete Townsend, Jeff Beck etc) until Mick's sad recent passing in 2011. Richard's book on Eurovision was released by the UK Book Publisher Input/Output in 2010. The 66 lectures that were written and available for the Malta courses Richard originally assembled in 2005 for various universities and music colleges in the UK including Thames Valley University and the London Institute Of Music, Drumtech, Basstech and Vocaltech. In January 2010 She2's won the Bay Bands Award for the track Bubblegum. Richard is currently working on The Music In Colours project and writing a book on A&R called A&R - Inside Out.

In Malta we are pleased to welcome Madeleine Dargue who is on board with us as Project Co-ordinator. She is currently a vocal and phonetics teacher in Malta and was taught by world famous singing tutor Tona De Brett who also taught Lily allen, Duffy, Seal and Dido. Madeleine is the only vocal tutor using her own specifically devised 'Colours Of The Voice' technique in the country. She was extensively a music promoter in London where she set up the famous Gateway To Music Showcase nights that went on to pioneer acts such as Newton Faulkner and Paolo Nutini. In the nineties and early part of this century she was a respected artist with chart topping acts such as Steps and Fifth Dimension. As a solo singer she recorded with acts including Cyberglad, Eric Robinson (S Express), Gil Scott-Heron and as Darshan supported chart stars including Hazel O'Connor and Finlay Quaye. Madeleine was signed up to no fewer than 3 labels in the UK with spells at Creativity Music, Ncompass Records and Silverscope Records as well as securing a publishing deal for her songwriting abilities. She is in a band by the name of Velvet Rain in Malta and also recently wrote Thea Saliba's Maltese hit 'The Rules'. You can contact her at maddee2shine@gmail.com