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e-mail: rocklord@mac.com

A highly trained musician, with extensive experience in the practical and organising duties associated with performing, touring and teaching; and as music supervisor and music director has put in place multiple cast changes, including auditions for the cast and band, coaching and motivating the artists and musicians. Also, composer and arranger, working for top artists and advertising agencies.

MOST RECENT
• Co. Music Director, Keyboard Player and String Arranger for The Who, performing at The Royal Albert Hall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2emwzJyecg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
• Keyboard player for singer/songwriter Jim Diamond
• Music Director for stage production of Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia
• Music Supervisor for We Will Rock You (Canadian Production); which included auditioning and training cast and band, and acting as production consultant
• Music Director at We Will Rock You (London Production); which included putting in place multiple cast changes, auditioning, coaching etc.
• Working for Queen and WWRY as Music Director for appearance on The Al Murray Pub Landlord Show for ITV
• Music Director for Footloose, The Playhouse, West End
• Dep. Conductor for UK tour of Rocky Horror
• Composing for advertising agency – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUu9wq93H0g

SKILLS/ACHIEVEMENTS

• Motivator and good communicator, both one-to-one and within a group
• Intuitive and imaginative
• Good at organising and planning action and reaching targets
• Total dedication and responsibility
• Wrote and released album ‘Addicted’ [May '95] (all original material)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Performing: Rock; Orchestral (includ. with Olivier Messiaen and Krzyztof Penderecki); Shows including MD for Quadrophenia, We Will Rock You and Footloose; Assistant MD for London Studio Centre production of ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘Victory’ (Donmar Warehouse); Keyboard player for Spamalot (Palace), The Sound Of Music (Palladium), Zorro (Garrick), Flashdance (touring production) and Recitals.

Running hard disk recording studio (programming, recording and mixing)
Recording, TV (incl. Arena, TVAM and The Al Murray Show) and Radio

Worked with: The Who; Brian May; Roger Taylor; Eddie Vedder; Tom Meighan (Kasabian);
Jim Diamond; Zak Starkey; Pino Palladino; Neil Murray (Black Sabbath, Whitesnake); Laurie Wisefield (Wishbone Ash, Tina Turner, Meatloaf); Alan Darby (Eric Clapton, Robert Palmer); Spike Edney (Queen, Bob Geldof); Jonathan Noyce (Jethro Tull, Gary Moore); Ben Elton; Olivier Messiaen and Krzyztof Penderecki

Touring [USA, Germany, Bermuda, Malta, Denmark and U.K.]

Teaching [Lancing College; Felsted School; The Mount, Mill Hill; Blackheath Conservatoire of Music and Royal Masonic School for Girls]

EDUCATION
1977-84 Chigwell School [awarded music scholarship], 8 0'Ievels & 2 A'Ievels.
1984-89 Royal Academy of Music [Dip.RAM, Professional Certificate with Honours & LRAM]
Professors:- Piano - Sidney Harrison, Alexander Kelly, Ruth Harte Flute - Gareth Morris, Sebastian Bell