Richard Payne is an accomplished pianist/composer with over 20 years experience in the music industry. Mr. Payne also brings to the School a solid management background having worked in the private sector at a senior management level within the last 10 years. He is a graduate of Florida International University. As Co-founder and Bandleader of BLUEMANGO (a regional Jazz Ensemble), Mr. Payne has performed extensively at local and overseas Jazz festivals including Paris, the French Antilles, and Trinidad. He is the recipient of a number of music awards including two M&C Fine Arts awards.

Natalie McAllister-Chakhalashvili is a native of the Republic of Georgia, former Soviet Union. Her music education began at the age of six, studying piano in the Tbilisi Music School for Gifted Children. She received a Bachelor Degree from Tbilisi Music College specializing in piano as teacher and accompanist. She joined the Tbilisi Conservatoire in 1975 and in 1980 received a Masters Degree in Piano. She has worked as a piano teacher in the Republic of Georgia, and has done research work at the Institute of Psychiatry in the field of Music therapy. She also performed part-time as an accompanist in the Georgia Philharmonic Society.

(2005) Tutor, BM Loyola University New Orleans, USA. Wind tutor for the St. Lucia School of Music Wind Programme.

(1990) 'Adventure in Music'. Advanced Certificate in School music, St. Lucia School of Music. Musicgarten Certificate, USA. Many years as a qualified Infant School teacher and music specialist.

(1991) ‘Adventure in Music’ at Vieux-Fort Centre. Certificate in School Music, Saint Lucia School of Music. Musicgarten Certificate, USA. Infant School teacher of many years standing. Bursar Vieux-Fort Centre since 1997.

(1993) Over Ten Years as a drummer with local bands including Amate. Since 1999, teaching music to differently-able children at the School for the Blind, and Dunottar.

Part-time tutor in both the Castries and Vieux-Fort Centres. Attained Grade 8 in Guitar with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Advanced Certificate in School Music, Saint Lucia School of Music. Musicgarten Certificate, USA. Over ten years as a qualified primary school teacher and music specialist.

Marie Medina learned to play violin at the age of nine in the public school music program in El Paso, Texas in the rich, multicultural environment of her Mexican-American family and surroundings. She studied Music at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music in Stockton, CA and at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has enjoyed a varied career as private teacher and orchestra conductor of the YOURS Project, a Venezuelan- inspired social inclusion music program known as “El Sistema”. She also ran a private studio and served as a violin instructor for Chicago area private and public schools.

(1990) Tutor, Early Childhood Music Programme 'Adventure in Music'. Certificate in Teaching of School Music, St. Lucia School of Music; Musicgarten Certificate, USA. Over ten years as a qualified infant school teacher and music specialist.

(1991) BMus., University of Manitoba, Canada, Certificate in Teaching School Music, Jamaica School of Music. Over fourteen years teaching in at a secondary school and piano, singing and general musicianship at the St. Lucia School of Music.