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Engraver executed on Sibelius
Music Notation Software, Scorch files for preview, print, audio
and MIDI virtual performance files
Music Producer
recent release is Out of the Bag by Bag o’ Cats
for GREENTRAX No.CDTRAX193.
Composed Miro for flute, clarinet, accordian, piano, keyboards, bass and
drums.
Trip to New Zealand - My NZ Trip
Composed Transit Of Venus for flute(s).
Sessional peripatetic instructor for The Music Service, Birmingham Education Department
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Trainer & Web Site Consultation for Drake Music
Project (Scotland)
Music Notation SoftwareCurrently editing and engraving Vision, a musical by Dominc Hartley.
Recently engraved for notensatzdienst freiburg in Merzhausen, Germany.
Experience in print industry as music copyist & editor with a particular emphasis on complex contemporary scores for clients including Brian Fernyhough (Peters Edition), Harrison Birtwistle (Universal Edition), Peter Maxwell Davies (Boosey & Hawkes), Dominic Muldowney (film scores).
January 2004 - current
Sessional Peripatetic Teaching (Woodwind) Birmingham Education Department - Music Service
September 1992 — December 1999
Birmingham Education Department - Music Service
Teacher primary & secondary schools: music technology, flute, clarinet, saxophone, recorder, and piano, keyboard.
Conductor & Administrator of Birmingham Schools Wind Orchestra. Performances; residential courses; ‘Music For Youth’ regional Festivals.
Musical Director of the Birmingham Music Service Clarinet & Saxophone Choir
Course Director for Birmingham Young Composers funded by The National Lottery A4E Scheme and The Arts Council of England.
Warwickshire County Music Service: Summer Course directing chamber music master classes
September 1984 - June 1992 (part time)
Music workshops for National Theatre actors including Orestia and Agamemnon.
Wapping Neighbourhood Community Education Department: Saxophone classes and ensemble.
Middlesex Polytechnic: developed and lectured module entitled What Is Contemporary (about) Music? Included disciplines applicable to systems music e.g. phasing, repetition, hocketing, & pulses.
Private Teaching on a one to one basis pupils from beginner to advanced standard in flute, clarinet, saxophone and piano including jazz.
Music Co-ordinator at Inter-Action Community Arts, established recording studio and taught studio techniques to client groups and musicians.
2000-2003
Concerts and workshops on Isle of Arran in 2002 & 2003 with Infinite Trio. Live CD released of Brodick Castle performances.
Collaborator with Mrigya, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2002.
Soloist with Reshah - Persian music with oud, darabouka, daf and vocals.
Improvising pianist with own trio, Infinite Trio playing Standards and fusion resident at The Shore Bar & Restaurant twice a week.
1991-1999
Solo performer with BEAST (Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre); concerts of flute and/or saxophone and tape, including Seven Waves by Jo Hyde, link to audio clip. See also ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FOR SOLO FLUTE: A COMPENDIUM OF COMPOSITIONS - SEVEN WAVES listing
Conducted performances of new student works for chamber orchestra & live signal processing in the Barber Festival of Contemporary Music.
2nd Reed (flute, piccolo, clarinet & alto saxophone) in West Side Story Stourbridge Town Hall, Annie Wolverhampton Civic Hall, 42nd Street Birmingham Hippodrome.
1974
-1986
Vexations by Erik Satie 11-12 May 1974. Holywell Music Room, Oxford. Organiser: Simon Thorne. Pianists: John Wesley Barker, Simon Best, John Edwards, Paul Feldwich, Pete Mason, Glyn Perrin, Camilla Saunders, Alden Schwarz, Simon Thorne. Duration: 23 hours 56 minutes. See [38] Vexations and its Performers an article by Gavin Bryars.
Keyboard player in Edgar Broughton Band - tours in Norway, Germany & Switzerland.
Transcribed horn parts for Soultax a 23-piece soul band; numerous performances including a tour of Germany during reunification.
Recorded and performed synthesisers & piano
on the John Foxx (formerly founded Ultravox)
album Metamatic (reached No.18, in British chart for 7 weeks),
included two appearances on ‘Top Of The
Pops‘ visit
www.metamatic.com
A co-founder, musical director and composer of Lost Jockey — systems music orchestra specialised in
music of then unknown American minimal composers
- Steve Reich, Philip Glass & Terry Riley
as well as compositions & arrangements by
members. Lost Jockey was an incorporated
ICOM co-operative 1982, released 3 commercial
recordings.
Sound Engineer at Ronnie Scott’s (London) for summer Cuban season with artists: IRAKIRE, Arturo Sandoval.
Producer & Engineer at Weemeenit Recording Studios 24 track working with Captain Sensible.
Musician at the National Theatre
in Tamburlaine
The Great, Il Campiello; Julius
Cæser, Don Juan and performer in workshop
devised production of Bow Down with Tony
Harrison and Harrison Birtwistle.
Researcher in Greek Music and Instrument Design for the Orestia at the National Theatre.
photo: Nobby Clark
1981-2002
BEF Music of Quality & Distinction
Vol.1 (1981) album including Roy Orbisons'
It's Over covered by Billy MacKenzie. Strings, 2 French horns, harp and percussion recorded at The Garden, Shoreditch.
Palais Schaumberg orchestral takes and piano sketches recorded in PolyGram studio in Hamburg & Wessex Studios in London for Parlez-Vous-Schaumberg (1984) album
ABC (1984) album Beauty Stab including
the single That Was Then But This Is Now, 4 cellos and 2 double basses recorded at SARM WEST, Basing Street Studios by Gary Langan.
Denim album produced by John Leckie.1972-1973
ILEA Cockpit Theatre Saturday workshops creating ensemble, electronic & tape pieces performing new composed improvised music and theatre.
1974
Ritual Theatre, an improvisation group comprising 3 musicians and 3 performance artists at Bath Festival
1976 - 1977
Co-ordinator York Musicians Co-operative
Founder & Director of the St Paul’s Square Community Festival (funded by Yorkshire Arts)
1980
Project work with Scratch Orchestra, Peoples Liberation Music, AMM (2) performing with improvising musicians & visual artist, devising strategies for improvised music, founded and incorporated of London Musicians Collective & Jazz Centre Society
1988-2001
Community Musician at Battersea Arts Centre, summer play schemes constructing bamboo flutes with children.
Composer & Musical Director on Bluebeard - The Barbary Ghost and Molefinger at Chats' Palace, Homerton Community Arts Centre, Hackney.
Music Co-ordinator for Interaction Community Arts, projects included - M-I-Y Make-It-Yourself, Music Workshops, Summer Play schemes, Last Anti-Nuclear Festival, Dogges Troupe, Imprint and the Almost Free Theatre, composed game songs for under 5s, published by AC Black including The Weather Song
Solo piano player for stage production of The Wizard of Oz (1989) at The Old Bull Arts Centre, Barnet, Herts.
World Music workshops for Queen’s Hall education project in Edinburgh Schools.
1990-2005
Miro for flute, clarinet, accordian, piano, keyboards, bass and drums. Dedicated to Rocky & Pete on the birth of their son.
Transit Of Venus for solo flute & Transit Of Venus 2 for flute duet (2004) written while waiting for pupils.
Jazzy Johnny (in progress) set of graded educational pieces for melody instrument and piano
From B for baritone saxophone and tape
accelerandi e ritardandi for violin & orchestra
1979-1984
Four Variations for piano on a theme by Bela Bartok.
Phrase Book (1979) for four parts. Recorded by Lost Jockey at Wortwell Mill, produced by Gareth Jones, released on Le Disque du Crepiscule.
Music by Rise & Fall (1979) for flutes, saxophones, clarinets, tuned and untuned percussion, keyboards, pianos. Recorded by Lost Jockey at Abbey Road, produced by John Leckie, released on Twilight Records, used as title music to BBC R4 programme Puzzle Panel (1998-1999).
Music by Rise & Fall 2 for solo mallet instruments & tape delay commissioned by Simon Limbrick with funds made available by Greater London Arts Association (performed at Wigmore Hall, London; De Melkveg, Amsterdam; The Half Moon Theatre, Mile End).
Return Journey (1979) for documentary film funded and distributed by The Arts Council of Great Britain).
Composed, improvised and performed in Steps, Notes & Squeaks devised by Maina Gielgud with dance performance by Piers Beaumont, Svetlana Beriosova, Jonathan Kelly, William Louther, Marjorie Slaski, James Slater and Wayne Sleep
Music for campaign videos including Health Emergency & And Then There Was One produced by Triple Vision Directed by Terry Flaxton, commissioned by Channel 4 with funds provided by Trade Unions & Independent Video Producers Association.
1970-1974
Flute Sonata (1970)
Arion (1970) for solo cello and strings
The Hollow Men for baritone, 2 basses & 3 Double Basses
Circular Triangulation for three trios
Sextet (1970) for tuned percussion
Six Pieces for Chamber Orchestra - performed by pupils of the Purcell School (formerly The Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians) conducted by Graham Treacher on 28th April 1971 at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Odyssey for Chamber Orchestra - performed by pupils of the Purcell School conducted by Graham Teacher on 1st July 1971 in St Johns' Smith Square, London. New Zealand Broadcasting Commission recording and broadcast of Odyssey.
Incidental music for plays at the Globe Theatre, Dunedin including The Cocktail Party, Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Patrick Carey
Concerto Grosso for soloist & 4 ensembles - performed in Marima Hall Dunedin.
Legends In A Small Book Of Designs for Large Orchestra commissioned by Southend Summer School Of Music.
256 Clouds for solo oboe & 12 percussionists first performed in Coventry Cathedral by Alistair Bentley & students of Warwick University.
The Duke’s School, Alnwick, Northumberland;
Tamworth Infants School, New South Wales
Prospect Primary School, Adelaide, South Australia
St Andrew’s School, Adelaide, South Australia
Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide, South Australia (Choral Scholarship)
The Purcell School (formerly The Central Tutorial School for Young Musicians), Hampstead, London, England
Otago Boys High School, Dunedin, New Zealand
TERTIARY EDUCATION
Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, South Devon
Les Grands Concerts de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
Middlesex Polytechnic, Oakwood, Middlesex, England
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Richard Meale (Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide),
Peter Maxwell Davies (London),
John Rimmer (Cambridge Summer Music Course, New Zealand),
Max Deutsch (Les Grands Concerts de la Sorbonne, Paris, France)
Nadia Boulanger (Le Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, France),
Richard Barrett (Middlesex Polytechnic)
David Cubbin (Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide),
Gareth Morris (Royal Academy of Music, London),
Sebastian Bell & Colin Lilley (privately)
Surendra Kamath (Dartington College of Arts)
Gordon Lewin (Middlesex Polytechnic)
Lawrence Leonard (Morley College)
Graham Treacher (Purcell School)
Hardware: IBM-Mainframe 700 Series & PC Compatibles, DEC-PDP 11/73 & Vax Cluster, APPLE-Macintosh G4, Quadra & IIe, MONOTYPE-Lasercomp, ATARI micros, Fairlight CMI plus numerous electronic musical instruments.
Operating
Systems: Windows 3.1, 95 & 98, 2000, ME
& XP, MS-DOS 3.3 - 6.x, UNIX (Idris), PL/M, CP/M,
VMS, System 7, Mac OS 8.5 — 9.1, OS X Jaguar, Panther & Tiger
Music Software: Composers Desktop Project, Steinberg Pro-24, Steinberg Sound Library, C-Lab Notator Logic and Logic Audio Platinum, Cubase VST (Rebirth & Recycle), GRM Tools, Sadie, Sound Designer II, ProTools, Coda FINALE, Sibelius, Amadeus Music Engraving, Note Processor, CoolEdit, CSound (Cecilia)
Office Software: AppleWorks 6 & Microsoft Office X (Word, Access, Power Point, Excel)
Desktop Publishing: Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Pagemaker, QuarkXpress.
Web site authoring: HTML 4, CSS, Macromedia Director 8, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Macromedia Flash MX, Macromedia Fireworks MX, Macromedia Freehand MX
Digital Video: Final Cut Pro, iMovie, QuickTime, VideoScript.
System Utilities: Norton Utilities Norton AntiVirus, Virex, Conflict Catcher, and Techtool.
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music & Information Technology - Upper Second Class. Modular Degree Scheme at Middlesex Polytechnic, subjects taken include Music, Quantitative Studies and Information Technology (Systems Analysis & Management).
Choral Scholarship (as Head Chorister St Peters Cathedral, Adelaide) to Pulteney Grammar School.
Awarded Prize for outstanding contribution to music at Pulteney Grammar School.
Grade 8 Flute score 148 — National highest distinction (Australia).
Member of Musicians' Union Central London Branch & Edinburgh Branch, Approved Contractor
Associate Member of the Performing Right Society
Member of the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society
Member of the Composers Guild of Great Britain.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies composer, Master Of The Queen's Music.
David Perkins, Head of Music Service, The Music Centre, Balden Road, Harborne, Birmingham B32 2EH
John Croghan, Head, St Francis Church of England Junior School, Teazel Avenue, Bournville, Birmingham.

Birthday: 12th December 1954