A music school built around one idea.
Most music teaching is organised around correctness — right notes, right rhythm, right fingering. Those things matter, and they are also the part a metronome and a patient hour can fix.
What they do not produce on their own is a performance anybody wants to listen to. The shaping does that: knowing where to breathe, where to lean in, where to let something sit. We built the academy around teaching that from the first lesson rather than saving it for the students who last five years.
- Founded
- 2026
- Teaches
- Voice and piano, one to one
- Home
- Faith Presbyterian Church
16000 N Del Webb Blvd
Sun City, AZ 85351 - Serving
- Sun City, Sun City West, Surprise, Peoria, Youngtown, El Mirage
Founder and director.
Rory has taught music for more than twenty years and is the music director at Faith Presbyterian Church in Sun City, where he runs the choir and plays for the Sunday service.
In 2026 his student Freya Terris, then seventeen, became the first one-handed pianist to pass Grade 8 with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in the board’s near-140-year history. She had lost the use of her right hand after surgery and spent more than a year relearning the instrument with her left, taught online across a seven-hour time difference. The story was covered by FOX 10 Phoenix, ABC15 Arizona and the BBC.
He founded the academy to bring the same teaching to Sun City in person — and to build something that outlasts one teacher’s calendar.
The academy rents teaching space at Faith Presbyterian Church. It is open to everyone — students do not need to be members of the church, or of any church, and lessons carry no religious requirement.
What the building gives us is unusual for a music school: a proper choir room, a comfortable waiting area, free level parking, and a sanctuary with a Steinway grand and room for a thousand people, which is where our recitals happen.