TBCC head of music, Bernie Steponitis said: "The aim behind Sophie’s placement with TSC Music was to give her the opportunity to work within a professional music company to learn what the ‘music biz’ is all about and utilize the experience she gains to further her music studies at Thomas Bennett as well as any career in the music industry she may decide to pursue in the future."
TSC managing director Neal Abdool said: "As part of our corporate values we feel that it is important for us as a local business to reinvest in the local community. Having established a close relationship with TBCC over a number of years, we are delighted to be in a position where we can provide its music students with an opportunity to sample what we do and give them an insight into the commercial world of the music business. Our own recording studio engineer William Bone is in fact a past student of Thomas Bennett and one of Bernie Steponitis’s top music technology graduates.
Sophie is 15 and currently studying Music GCSE at TBCC with the intention to study Music Technology A-level in the sixth form. When she leaves her ambition is to study a Music Technology degree at university before embarking on a career in the music business.
(Lee Baldock)
