My career has been spent learning, playing, creating and teaching music, not as separate jobs but as a singular pursuit. I started by teaching beginners to play drums and now supervise PhD students and design undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In between I’ve worked in further education, led large-scale community projects, taught composition on prestigious summer schools and run synthesis workshops for beginners online during the pandemic. I’m driven to educate by being inquisitive about people, friendships and communities and how music enables relationships.
I’ve been a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, John Hopkins Peabody Institute – Baltimore US, UC Berkeley US, Kunitachi Academy – Tokyo Japan, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Goldsmiths College, York University, University of West London, Open University, Brunel University, Conservatorio di Musica Guiseppe Tartini - Trieste Italy, Bristol University, Grieg Academy - Norway.
I currently have the best job in the world as Head of Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where we are continually exploring new approaches to music education.