Founder, managing director, and musician turned entrepreneur, Steve has helped redefine the music landscape at Music Valley.

Steve Jaz originally began a music career as a session musician, touring with multiple shows and corporate bands, supporting Australian music icons such as Darryl Braithwaite and Choirboys. After completing a music degree, Steve juggled a career as a musician and a corporate sales executive for several years. Having experienced many of the challenges that come with making a living as a musician, Steve was inspired by a vision to build a company that would ultimately solve many of the problems artists face in their journey to becoming full-time working artists.

Steve's investment in his personal development and growth as an entrepreneur gave rise to create a new model for training, music production, and career development, transforming the lives of thousands of artists over the past decade with the help of his team. With a growing network across the country, Steve continues to work on the Music Valley vision as a way of giving back to the community and helping develop a stronger music industry in Australia, creating new pathways for the modern musician.

Producer, DJ, Songwriter, Radio Host and Multi-Platinum Award Winner, Jonny Sonic from the Potbelleez has joined the team at Music Valley to work with our aspiring artists and music producers starting in June 2022.

This is a rare opportunity to learn from an award-winning artist, and producer whose career has spanned across the globe, including support for Usher on a 16 Arena Tour, Headlining for The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada Basement Jaxx, and has owned the longest-running club night in Kings Cross history "Mouline Nights".

Jonny has lectured all around the globe for many of the elite music institutions such as SAE, Penny Lane Studios in the UK, Universal Studios in LA, and co-producing alongside POET of the Black Eyed Peas fame.

Check out his world tour with the The Potbelleez featuring Usher below and get in touch to arrange a discovery interview with Jonny at Music Valley today!

Three Latin Grammys nominee ALETHIA (Alethia Gomez) is a Colombian singer-songwriter and actress based in Melbourne, Australia.
Born in the capital city of Colombia, Bogotá and raised in the Caribbean San Andrés Island, she comes from the centre of a family of artists, with a painter mother, a designer and sculptor father and musician brothers, being immersed in a very young age in the world of the arts.
Her musical project combines elements of reggae, jazz, soul and bolero with lyrics in English and Spanish which has allowed her to highlight her roots around the world. Her artistic development began in musical theatre at the age of 7, then she studied contemporary music at EMMAT representative institution of Berklee College of Music in Latin America.

In 2013 Alethia was a semi-finalist of The Voice in Colombia, an experience which allow her to work and tour with important musicians in Colombia and in the United States. In 2018 she was awarded a full scholarship on performance at JMC academy. Having finished her musical studies she graduated from a Master's degree in creative industries.

ALETHIA is also well known for her countless collaborations with artists from Colombia, the USA, France, Iran, Korea and Japan. Currently, She is in her way to release her album debut ‘Emotions’ with her new sound, including the song Once More as a bonus track and special collaborations. This upcoming album is being featured for Rolling Stones Australia in April 2022 for its authenticity and its innovative creative approach.

Alethia currently teaches voice, performance and toplining at Music Valley, working with aspiring vocal artists to build their capabilities in vocal technique, performance, recording and improvisational skills.

Hi, my name is Martin Case, currently serving as a mentor, trainer and musical director.

In addition to teaching and mentoring, I am a composer, multi-media producer, and performing musician. My work also includes designing experiences for concert, dance, film and other multi-media, both live and in the studio which has taken me to the Middle East, West Africa, South America, Europe, Australia, and throughout Asia.

One of the biggest problems I see in the traditional institutional approaches to education is that teacher's simply don't have the support or jurisdiction to have real and honest conversations with their students. Whilst students are doing great in their technical, ear training, theory, stage and production skills, it's VITAL to develop strong connections, relationships and networks to make it in this industry. That is why I'm excited to be working with the team at Music Valley to ensure that your mindset, in addition to your theoretical and production skills, is aligned to ensure your success in the collaborative music industry of today.

Martin has taught at Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, JMC Academy and Music Valley lecturing on how to produce professional quality work and gain artistic employment through entrepreneurship.

How do you blend creativity and success without one swallowing up the other?
That was my biggest fear in trying to turn my passion for music into a sustainable career. I joined Music Valley's 'Tribe' for Modern Songwriters in October 2018 in search for an answer, and what I found was so much more. MV was my introduction to the world of personal development, mentoring and business, and has since shaped my mindset in a way that was only achievable by being surrounded by action takers.

What I experienced was a team who practiced holistic mentoring methods focusing on individual goals, then creating strong and deep connections with everyone in the community as a result of attaining those goals.

So what was the answer to blending creativity with success?
Create to give, not to take. The more we offer our skills to get others where they want to be, the more we propel ourselves forward. I've gone from bedroom wannabe to business owner, making double the money compared to my day job just by asking myself what I can give to other people.

I’ve been a guitarist for 15 years and can show you techniques you can use as a singer/songwriter to instantly stand out from the crowd, specialising in alternate tunings and open voiced chords. Once you know your way around the instrument, I can help you write songs that will connect deep in the core of your listener while also remaining true to your creative self (trust me, it’s easier than you think to “write from the heart” and also hit the charts).
As one of the Tribe leaders, I intend to help Tribe to become the biggest songwriting force in the country. I have studied methods taught by leading songwriters Jason Blume (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys), Friedemann Findeisen, James Roche (Bachelor Girl) and Eric McCusker (Mondo Rock, John Farnham) with one of my own songs placing top 30 in the 2018 ASA Australian Songwriting Contest for the folk acoustic genre.
Last but not least, I thrive in the recording studio as a vocal producer to make sure those lyrics hit home in the context of a full mix. Microphone placement, vocal layering, gain automation, pitch correction and composition through vocal tone are all art forms in themselves which contribute a huge amount to a truly professional sounding track.

I couldn’t imagine my life without music and I know there’s more of you out there who are the same. Bursting at the seams wanting to share my knowledge so jump on the ride with me and let's see where we go!

Jake