About

I started playing the piano when I was five. I can remember Mum playing the piano to me, before I went to bed, pieces like the Minstrel Boy by Thomas Moore. She helped make music come alive, talking about the music and explaining the stories behind the song or piece. I really enjoyed listening to The Magic Flute, which might explain why I started learning the flute as well. Mum would ask me to listen to the instruments and she would explain what the instruments represented in the story. This was particularly true in Peter and the Wolf, an evocative story and piece of music. Fantastic stuff.

Dad would play records on a Saturday morning and introduced me to the music of Elton John, The Beatles (Sergeant Pepper, Revolver) and I would dance around the settee going wild to The Wombles, Waterloo by Abba and the Star Wars album. I remember staring at the cover of Elton John’s record of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and thinking how his head resembled an egg.

Music equals feeling: escapism, joy, sadness, safety, a constant, an anchor, a memory. Something to depend on.

Strangely, I only really started writing music or creating music, once I had completed my Music Degree at University and entered the world of work.

I became obsessed with writing songs. I wanted to start a band. I wrote a clutch of songs and recorded a demo in a studio in Northampton. I got a band together and we played for a couple of years- it taught me a lot.

I decided I wanted to make something of my music. My first professional venture was writing/producing the music for a series of adverts for Match Mobile for the company AMV. From there, I have written some music for a series of programmes shown on Pasture Promise TV. I have also done a bit for local radio. Also, I have written some music for the theatre- a few years ago I wrote and produced some music for the Janus Theatre Company that did a production of Sense and Sensibility at the Minarch Theatre in Cornwall.

I am on the lookout for more composing opportunities.

Dreams don't work, unless you do.