Allan “Al” Ellis — and the musicians, teachers and storytellers whose paths crossed yours.
Across three decades of School Torque and The Crew, you built a community — young performers, screen-makers, music teachers and Sutherland Shire neighbours. Here are the ones we could place, and what they’re doing today. Every name links to their own work. A quiet, private page — just for you. Nothing here is public.
Faces from the show itself.
Discovered as a teenager, Bek sang on The Crew and interviewed artists on air — among them Christine Anu and Deni Hines — after a spot in Channel 9’s School Spectacular. Today she teaches dance and singing in Sydney and works as a performance adjudicator.
The musicians and music teachers around Crew Music and Sydney’s south.
An award-winning Sutherland Shire singer-songwriter — and a former NSW police officer — who runs the Menai Music school across Menai and Jannali.
A Sydney singer, producer and voice coach (Penshurst) who has spent some thirty years training contemporary musicians and singers.
An Engadine singer-songwriter and vocal coach, co-founder of the Sydney Vocal Academy in Kirrawee, and a 2013 contestant on The Voice Australia.
A Sydney session trumpeter and vocalist — “The Hornstar” — Conservatorium-trained, who came up through the NSW brass scene and has since played with everyone from Tim Minchin to The Cat Empire.
A career guitarist and vocalist — “Rockin’ Ron” — with a long association with the Turramurra Music Centre.
An Australian singer-songwriter who began as a Sydney session singer for radio and television before touring the United States with guitarist Tommy Emmanuel.
A Sydney guitarist and music educator, and a founding teacher at the Australian Institute of Music.
A Sydney Conservatorium-trained composer for film and television, now based in Los Angeles — his scores include 12 Monkeys and Disney’s Christopher Robin.
Teachers and educators from the world of media and screen.
A Sydney musician, author of Living With A Creative Mind, and a creative-industries educator who has taught at UTS and JMC Academy — with a long career writing music for television and film.
A creative director and designer of some forty-five years, and a former lecturer at KvB Design College and Hornsby TAFE.
Makers behind the camera.
A media producer, director and editor whose work spans documentary, drama and training films.
From the world of Crew Indigenous and “The Voice”.
A Sydney musician and ethnomusicologist who works with the Tiwi Islands song-women through the ensemble Ngarukuruwala, bringing archived Tiwi songs back home.
A Dunghutti and Gumbaingirr woman, and founder of Murawin — a national Aboriginal engagement and research consultancy — after some thirty years working in Aboriginal Affairs.
Everything above is drawn from public, published sources. Here they all are, in full.