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Max Bornstein
Max Bornstein - Drum Kit, Guitar
Max Bornstein has been playing music since 2006. He began studying drums at age 11, and later, began studying guitar at age 13. Max was a student at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, where he was the recipient of the 2013 Music Award for excellence in Advanced Band, Repertoire, Composition, and Orchestra classes. He went on to Centennial College’s Music Industry Arts & Performance program, graduated in 2017, and received an Advanced Diploma.
Max has toured both Canada and the United States, performed live and recorded with many musical acts, including Goodbye Honolulu, Missy Bauman, and Rebekah Hawker. Max has been teaching private lessons for the past several years. He is excited to join the faculty at CMC and looks forward to working with students there.
Hiro Suzuki
Hiro Suzuki - Guitar, Ukulele, Electric Bass, Piano, Drums
Bachelor of Music in Jazz and Commercial Music, Humber College
Originally from Kanagawa, Japan, Hiro Suzuki is an enthusiastic musician and teacher with 9 years of teaching experience both in English and Japanese. Hiro works predominantly in the genres of jazz, Latin, pop, and rock.
After formally learning the piano and drums, Hiro picked up the guitar and played in various jazz, rock and bossa nova groups, orchestra pits for musicals, and on recording projects.
Hiro acquired his first experience in teaching back in Japan, where he taught guitar students of all levels and ages for 4 years at a music academy. Then, Hiro moved to Canada to pursue a degree in Music at Humber College, where he studied with David Occhipinti, Lucian Gray, Kirk McDonald and Trevor Giancola, and was awarded Humber's scholarship for academic excellence in 2021.
After graduating from Humber, Hiro is an active performer in the Toronto live music scene. Since moving to Canada, Hiro has taught in-person and online private guitar, ukulele, drums and piano lessons tailored to each student's needs and requirements for the past 5 years.
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