Staff & Music Teachers at Bach to Rock Lutz

Rick Schmidt - Rick Schmidt is the Owner of Bach to Rock Lake Mary (Orlando) & Lutz (Tampa). As a Program Director of some of America's biggest Rock/Alternative radio stations, he helped launch the careers of Sister Hazel, Creed and Shinedown. He is also known as Riley's Dad, Desi's Dad, Ian's Dad & Parker's Dad.

Savannah Comellas Hinton - Savannah is the Site Director at Bach to Rock. She also teaches piano, voice, clarinet and unrelated to music, loves to bake. She was a student at Blake High School & graduated from Southeastern University with a degree in Music Business. Savannah is a Tampa native and was a head lifeguard at the YMCA for several years.

Chase T - Chase is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and creates music for film and video games. He teaches guitar, piano, bass, uke and tons of bands...but don't ask him to teach you how to ride a bike. He is still working on that.

Mac B - Lyndsey aka Mac is an Operations Assistant, a multi-instrumentalist and is following in her Dad's footsteps as a music teacher. She is a former Bach to Rock student and her band, Less than 5, was one of our early Battle of the Bands winners. Beware...she loves to jam on whatever instrument that she can grab!

Andrew D - Andrew is a graduate of Gaither High and was selected for USF's Chamber Singers in School of Music. Andrew loves his voice, piano, drums and guitar students! He is the guitar player and singer in "Back Off Nancy" and is excited to work with the bands at B2R Lutz.

Austin C - Austin loved jiu-jitsu and baseball when he was younger and oddly, never broke a bone. He has also never broken anything while playing drums, sax, piano or any other instrument that he teaches.

Brian B - Brian has rocked stages across the country as a drummer but he's a multi-instrumentalist. Like his 4 year old, he loves all types of music but somehow is a big fan of Mmm Bop by Hanson.

Christjen M - Christjen is a lifelong Tampa Bay resident and has been working in education since 2012. His first instrument was saxophone, although he plays and teaches 8 more instruments, including voice. Christjen worked as a professional song-writer and vocal coach and currently, is pursuing his Masters degree. Christjen performs locally with "We're Home", comprised of other area teachers.

DJ B - Paul (aka DJ Backbone) is a well-recognized face in the Tampa Bay DJ community and leads the Beat Refinery program. Paul has performed at venues throughout the Bay area and mixes at special events all over Tampa Bay. Cool fact about Paul: he has a mobile solar powered DJ bike.

Erin G - Erin loves piano, coffee, voice lessons, coffee, cello, coffee, violin, coffee, ukulele...and you guessed it, mac and cheese.

Joey C - Joey loves to teach and love helping at our music camps. His instrument of choice is drums but piano, guitar and vocals are right behind drums....and skateboarding!

Nat P - Nat is seasoned singer/songwriter and has auditioned for The Voice and American Idol. She is a graduate of Blake's prestigious music program. She is a multi-instrumentalist but vocals may be her favorite program to teach.

Panda C - Tyler aka Panda has been playing in bands and touring since age 16. He teaches but his favorite thing is coaching our bands. And he loves to brag that he won a hot dog eating competition - 11 dogs in 8 minutes.

Rob M - Rob is a veteran teacher, who has taught in the public and private school systems. Rob is a multi-instrumentalist teacher and performer...and loves to compose. He claims that he wants to be a Vegan but just can't stop eating cheese.

Royse B - Royse is passionate about drums. As one of Florida's best and well-known drummers, Royse has performed with many players at venues all over the state. Don't be surprised if you catch him behind the kit at Skippers or one of Tampa Bay's leading music venues.

Tyler P - Tyler P. is our Heavy Metal guy. In addition to teaching the Tuba, he's your guy for Metallica and Pantera guitar lessons. Tyler also teaches bass, drums and rock band.