Full-time Staff
Our Full-time Staff are:
Paul Edgeler—Head of Music
and Trumpet
MMus, BMus (Hons), LMus, DipT
Before coming to Brunei in 2001 Paul was the Assistant Director of Music at St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland, New Zealand. His
specialist areas are Music Technology, Composition and Jazz. He has received two commissions from the QEII Arts Council and his
compositions have been recorded and performed in Japan, South America and New Zealand.
Faith Klein—Junior Music
TLD (UCT)
Faith is in charge of teaching Junior Music at JIS. She has taught class music and the piano for more than 20 years in countries such as South Africa and Botswana. She has extensive experience in
accompanying and working with choirs and teaching the
Recorder. Before joining our music faculty, Faith held the Primary Music Co-ordinator's post at ISB.
Garry Thin—Middle & Upper School Music and Piano/Voice
BMus, LRSM, LTCL, QSM, DipT
Garry is a pianist/accompanist, singer and tuba player. He is a director of the Serunai singers and before coming to Brunei he was the Head of Music at Cashmere School, in Christchurch, New Zealand for 18 years. He was also Director of Adult Community Education and conductor of the Cashmere Community Orchestra.
Bronwen Gill—Middle School Music and Cello/Double Bass
BMus (Hons), DipT L Mus TCL, LRSM (piano), LRSM (cello), FTCL
Before coming to JIS in 2007, Bronwen worked as a classroom music teacher and instrumental teacher for over 20 years in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well, she is an experienced conductor, chamber music tutor, music arranger and performer, particularly in her own trio and quartet.
Jill Chen—Middle & Upper School Music and Flute/Piano/Saxophone
MMus (Hons), BMus (Hons), LTCL, DipT
Jill joined the Music Faculty in January 2008 after graduating with a diploma in teaching and Master of Music with First Class Honours in Flute performance from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She also has a Licentiate Diploma in Piano Performance. She has been teaching flute and piano as well as accompanying and
performing for over ten years.
Jamie Sales—Violin/Viola
BMus. (Violin Perf)
Jamie has over 20 years teaching experience and for the past six he has directed string ensembles and taught violin ,viola, cello at JIS. Previous to this he was a professional musician on cruise ship tours travelling around North America, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, Alaska and the Caribbean.
Pg Sallehuddin—Drum-Kit/Percussion/Gamelan
Pg. Sallehuddin is a drummer and arranger with over 20 years of experience. His specialist areas are Latin, popular, jazz and
traditional Malay and Bruneian styles of music. He has taught at JIS for the past 4 years.
Erwani Matussin—Music Secretary
Erwani joined the Music Faculty in January 2005 after working in the Stationery shop for a year. Previous to this she was employed at the Empire Hotel.
Syarif Baharuddin —AV Technician
Syarif joined the Music Faculty in June. His experience ranges from audio recording to creating minus ones as well as sound effects for stage performances, radio jingles and radio advertisements for companies. Syarif also owns a mini recording studio at home and plays the keyboard.
Our Part-Time Staff are:
Nicole Sumich—Flute/Clarinet/Saxophone
MMus (Hons), BMus (Hons), LRSM, LTCL, DipT
Before coming to Brunei in 2001 Nicole was teaching secondary music at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, New Zealand. She has played flute professionally in various Auckland ensembles and she has been teaching flute, clarinet and piano for over 20 years.
Phyllis Thin—Piano ATCL, NZLA(Cert), AIRMT
Phyllis is a piano teacher and singer and is a member of the Serunai Singers. She has sung in choirs in New Zealand for over 20 years and has taught piano for a similar period from pre-school through to adult students.
Tony Chan—Electric /Acoustic Guitar and Bass Guitar
Tony is a guitarist and arranger with over 20 years of experience. He is employed fulltime as a professional musician with the RTB television
orchestra and he has taught at JIS for the past three years.
Chung Jiunn Yan—Classical Guitar
Jiunn has over 20 years experience teaching and playing classical guitar. He teaches guitar at the Do-Ray-Mi centre in Bandar and he has taught at JIS for the past two years.
Ir. Suhanda Hadiwinata—Piano M.M, LTCL, ATCL, A.Mus.A.
Suhanda is a pianist and music arranger with interests in classical and
romantic period music. For the past 30 years he has been performing and teaching in various countries including Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia & Brunei.
Melissa Robbins—Violin BA (cum laude) MA
Melissa studied Music at the University of Michigan School of Music. She is trained in the Suzuki method and integrates Suzuki philosophy into her teaching. She has played violin in orchestras in the U.S. and studied traditional Indonesian string instruments.
Sarah Jane Jusay @ Marian Sarah—Piano/Guitar BSc, HND, Dip
Sarah started playing the piano at the age of seven and then the guitar at age eleven. Apart from piano, she also teaches guitar (both classical and pop). She took up drums while in college and has been teaching it for almost three years now. Main areas (drums): rock, pop, shuffle & blues, ballads.
Darryl Luma-as—Acoustic Guitar/Classical Guitar/Electric Guitar/Bass Guitar
Darryl loves performing on the guitar, which is his passion. He trained to become a teacher in the Philippines and went to Music College to pursue his dreams of gaining a music degree. Darryl enjoys sharing his talent and skills with all students through his teaching. He strongly believes that music is an endless fountain of knowledge, as all musicians can learn from playing with one another.
Theresa Ilano—Piano BMus
Theresa started playing the piano at the age of six and has a passion for teaching music specialising in the younger children, as young as 5 years old. She has been teaching piano for almost 10 years now.
Stefanie Chua—Piano MA MusEd, BMus (Hons), CertPPTC (EPTA UK), A.Mus.A
Stefanie has attained her Masters studies in Music Education and Bachelor of Music (Hons) in piano performance. She has also completed her practical piano teacher training course held by the European Piano Teacher’s Association (EPTA-UK) and The Purcell School, UK and is now a certified member of EPTA-UK.