Studied Piano with Helene Gipps, Kenneth van Barthold, Rosamund Ley and, at the Royal College of Music, Arthur Alexander and Eric Harrison. Composition with Elisabeth Lutyens, Humphrey Searle and, at the Royal College of Music, Bernard Stevens. Trombone and tuba with Dennis Wick and John Fletcher (of the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble.) Organ with Osborne Peasgoode at the Royal College of Music

Has broadcast a series of programmes for schools for the BBC on 20th century music and is an occasional reviewer of recordings of contemporary music.

Activities in theatre music have included composing the scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor  and Les Enfants du Paradis ,  many productions for the Royal National Theatre including:Tales from the Vienna Woods, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Undiscovered Country, Death of a Salesman, The Wild Duck, The Mayor of Zalamea, Measure for Measure, The Prince of Homburg, Man Beast and Virtue, The Soldiers and various regional theatres, musical direction of Western Theatre Ballet and numerous musicals in London's West End.

COMPOSITIONS:  3 Operas, 26 Symphonies, 152 Piano Sonatas, countless works for vocal and chamber ensemble and the longest work ever written for 'cello and tuba.

Some of the piano sonatas are published by Alphonse Leduc, Paris, and Forward Music publishers, London. Brass music is published by Warwick Music.

RECORDINGS: Piano sonatas:  Lyrita Recorded Edition, Music in Our Time Records, NMC Records.

Electronic pieces:  Musica Nova, Unknown Public (issues 1 &4) and London-HALL records.

FASHION MUSIC for London-HALL records nominated BBC Music Magazine CD of the year 1993.

Featured Composer in the Park Lane Group's  1995 South  Bank Concert Series.

PIANO RECITALIST:  Concerts in the British Isles, USA, Canada, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Spain (repertoire mainly of own music and that of the late Romantics including Busoni, Medtner, Szymanowski, Rachmaninov, also Erik Satie.)

BASS TROMBONIST with the Royal Ballet Touring Orchestra and tuba player with the London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble.

TEACHING:  Royal College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, The Yehudi Menuhin School, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Leicester Polytechnic (now de Montfort University.  Presently Head of Music at the Drama Centre, London.

VISITING LECTURER:  Redlands University (California), The Mozarteum (Innsbruck), Internationale Schulmusikwochen (Salzburg), Portsmouth Polytechnic, Newport Art College, Middlesex University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, University of Western Australia, Rhodes University, South Africa, Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.

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