Flautist in the Staffordshire Youth Orchestra
I trained as a counter-tenor, but now sing tenor, at Guildhall and had composition lessons with Edmund Rubbra, Patric Stanford and Buxton Orr. I then studied at Birmingham University composition and analysis with John Joubert and Jonty Harrison
I sang early music with Philip Pickett and was in the John Aldiss Chamber Choir and was also a ley clerk at Tewkesbury Abbey
I have taught at various schools for 30+ years, latterly as Director of Music and have moved to Herefordshire following early retirement and am working as a freelance composer
I am currently an examiner with Trinity Guildhall and write weekly reviews of music and CDs for the Musicweb