Derek Chai has been a well respected and very experienced session musician and composer, with over twenty years experience, recording and performing with many well known and musically varied artists including Jools Holland, Boney M, Jimmy Ruffin, D:Ream and Elton John, plus many more, with musicality and expertise in almost any musical style.
He has taught across a wide spectrum of learner types and settings and has provided music workshops, music lessons and lectures to learners from adults to as young as 6 months old! He has also run music workshops for those learners with special needs and students excluded from school.
Derek's music facilitation involves a more hands on approach that encourages immediate participation, provides a safe environment for learners' artistic expression and recognises and adapts to learners' needs and abilities.
Above all, music/art sessions are aimed to be fun!