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I am a composer/performer and have just successfully completed a doctorate at Brookes University exploring the boundaries of improvisation and composition. I play violin,keyboards and sing in various groups which I also write and arrange for. These include:
Dubwiser: A reggae band I helped form
AMV: A band dedicated to the inauthentic performance of early music
Nonstop Tango: A hard rock art music covers band.
I also compose for theatre and contemporary groups, currently working extensively with Café Reason Butoh Dance Theatre. I work as a lecturer in music for the Open University as well as freelance on educational music projects. Some links for this work are in Teaching.
I am chair of the Oxford Improvisers Collective and am committed to developing local music as well as collaboration between music and other art forms.
Recent works include:
CD releases by Nonstop Tango, AMV and Dubwiser (see web sites above)
December 2007: music for Fuente Ovejuna Drama On Radio 3
October 2006: CD release of Accession – music created for 18 musicians working with four dancers in a 90 minutes performance at the end of 2005.
February 2006: Do Geese See God – a piece for all comers on a day of new music – rehearsed and performed by 80 people the same day.
Recent solo work on personal Myspace area.