Work History

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I trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the University of Birmingham, and I am now a freelance composer, pianist and musical director.

As Composer/MD I have worked on productions with Greenwich Theatre, New End Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and the Young Shakespeare Company. One of my choral pieces, The Church-Floore, was recently accepted by the renowned Elysian Singers. Earlier this year I was MD of a production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, and during the Xmas period I was Assistant MD/keyboards on a new version of Peter Pan for Chichester Festival Theatre.

Orchestral work as pianist includes Gorecki’s Symphony no. 3 with the Ulster Orchestra at Waterfront Hall, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Musicians’ Answering Service 30th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Opera House. I also played the bells (on keyboard!) for the BBC Concert Orchestra’s live web/radio broadcast of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture at the Imperial War Museum.

Composing and Musical Directing

• Looking For Gants, music for short film, June 2007, dir. Paul Gladwin – composer
• A Little Night Music, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Apr-May 2007 – MD
• Show Stopping, Pizza Express cabaret, 2006 and 2007 – arranger/MD
• The Nightingale and the Rose, Helen Roy Opera and Musical Theatre Workshop, Dec 2006 – composer
• Peter Pan, Chichester Festival Theatre, Dec 2006 – assistant MD/keyboard 1
• Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Young Shakespeare Company, 2001-06 – composer/MD
• Tomorrow Morning, New End Theatre, Aug 2006 – MD
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Principal Theatre Company, June-Aug 2001-2006 – composer/arranger/MD
• Once On This Island, Croydon Youth Theatre, July 2005; Full Circle, Artsdepot, May 2005 – MD
• Send in the Clowns, Sondheim cabaret, Rosemary Branch Theatre, Mar-Apr 2005 – composer/MD
• Greenwich Theatre 10 Minute Musical, Feb 2005 – composer
• Pride and Prejudice, Good Company UK tour, Aug-Oct 2004 – composer/arranger/MD
• The World Turned Upside Down, E15 Acting School, Jan-Feb 2004 – composer/arranger/MD
• Trip’s Cinch, Southwark Playhouse, Sept 2002 – composer/sound design
• Two Songs From A Shropshire Lad, String Quartet and Tenor, Ludlow Festival, June 2001 – composer

Other Theatre and Opera work

• Jane Eyre, Big Little Theatre School, Apr 2007 – keyboard 2
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Leicester Haymarket; Chichester Festival Theatre, 2004, 2005 – keyboard 2
• Brighton Rock, Almeida Theatre, Oct-Nov 2004 – keyboard 2 dep
• West End Gold, Gaiety and Villa Marina Theatres, Isle of Man, 2003, 2004, 2006 – keyboard 2
• La bohème, European Chamber Opera, Oct 1999 – repetiteur/keyboard
• The Barber of Seville, Mid-Wales Opera, Aug 1999 – repetiteur/harpsichord

Orchestral work

• MAS 30th Anniversary Concert, Royal Opera House, Oct 2006 – piano
• Gorecki Symphony no. 3, Ulster Orchestra, Belfast Festival, Nov 2006 – piano

Teaching

• E15, GSMD, London School of Musical Theatre and private work – Vocal Coach/MD

Other work

• ‘Trio Viva’ – pianist, composer and arranger in flute, oboe, piano trio. Recitals and private functions
• Finchley Children’s Music Group – accompanist for London children’s choir
• Full Circle – MD for children’s theatre group

Education

• Masters in Composing for Theatre MMus, London College of Music, 1999-2000
• Postgraduate in Repetiteur Training, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1998-99
• Bachelor of Music BMus (Hons.), University of Birmingham, 1995-1998

Other Musical Qualifications and Prizes

• British Flute Society Composition Prize, 2001
• Henry Purcell Prize for Composition, London College of Music, 2000
• Grade 8 voice (ABRSM 1997) and Grade 8 piano (ABRSM 1991) both with distinction

Current Publications (available from Hunt Edition, Spartan Press)

• Last Song of a Nightingale – for flute and piano, and piano solo (latter self-published)
• L’Arlésienne and Carmen Suites – for flute duet and piano