Senior Partners
James Suckling BA (Hons) QTS, Senior Managing Partner
Heart of England
(Birmingham , Solihull, Coventry, Reddich, Leicester, Northampton, Banbury, Aylesbury and Oxford and surrounding areas)
James studied Music and Drama at Warwick University and subsequently taught for nine years at schools in Coventry and Warwickshire. In 1999 James launched the Stagecoach Theatre Arts Schools in Edgbaston and Bromsgrove and currently these centers provide dance, drama and singing lessons for 200 students each week. As a Musical Director James has conducted many musicals across the Midlands. James set up IMS in 2011 and is thrilled to see the partnership develop and grow each year.
admin@independentmusicsolutions.co.uk
Phone: 07776 228179
Simon Belcher, Regional Managing Partner
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
(Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton and surrounding areas)
Simon has been playing drums since the age of 10 and now enjoys a career as both a teacher and performer. He has played in brass bands, orchestras, dance bands and function bands but now spends most of his time playing drums and percussion for many different shows, musicals and pantomimes in shows all over the country.
sbelcher@independentmusicsolutions.co.uk
Phone: 07802 420816
“IMS boasts really reliable teachers who have filled the children with enthusiasm for music, and who have been a huge support to the Music Department as a whole.”