Music Education

• September 1985-July !986 Foundation Course in Music at Jordanstown Campus, Ulster University
• September 1986-July 1989 Graduate Degree course at London College of Music (GLCMhons)
• 30^th April 1988 – ALCM diploma in clarinet playing
• 30^th April 1989 – LLCM diploma in clarinet playing

• September 1989 – July 1990 Post Graduate diploma in composing music for film and television at London College of Music.

Present orchestral experience

• Currently Bass/E♭/2^nd B♭Clarinet Bolton Symphony Orchestra
• Currently Cello with the Bolton Chamber Orchestra
  

Previous Experience

September 1990 – July 1996 – Freelance clarinet, peripatetic teaching and composition

• Bass/B♭ clarinet London 20, including bass clarinet in world premiere of Andrew Simpson’s “Silhouette”, for solo bass clarinet and orchestra at St. James’s, Piccadilly, London on 28/01/95.
• New Oxford Chamber Orchestra ( 2^nd Clarinet )
• Puccini - Madame Butterfly, English Festival Opera (2^nd clarinet) March 1995 in Churchill Theatre, Bromley, Kent. Also in Alexander Theatre, Queensway, Birmingham.
• Westminster Symphony Orchestra, conductor Peter Wadl (1^st clarinet)
• Chiltern Philharmonic Orchestra, St. John’s Smith Square on 04/05/95,conducted by Peter Wadl. (1^st clarinet).
• Hillingdon Philharmonic, conductor Peter Williams
• Bass/Bflat clarinet at Reigate Summer Music Festival (Elgar;Dream of Gerontius, The Kingdom, The Apostles)
• Mozart Clarinet Concerto, twice in Gillingham and Maidstone, conductor Roger Pond in 1991
• Debussy Rhapsody for Clarinet and orchestra, London College of Music Symphony Orchestra.
• Bass clarinet in premiere of my own bass clarinet concerto with London 20, conductor Anthony Davie in St.Cyprian’s Church, London
• Edinburgh Festival, clarinet with the Rehearsal Orchestra.
• Many lunchtime recitals in London church venues (including St.Martin-in-the-Fields on 02/10/95) with pianist Richard Black, on standard repertoire.
• Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time, Church of St. Martin within Ludgate, London October 1995.

Shows

• Gilbert and Sullivan – The Gondoliers, Patience, Mikado,The Pirates of Penzance
  
• Man of La Mancha, music by Mitch Leigh ( Bass clarinet ) with the Bench Theatre at Old Town Hall Arts Centre, Havant from 23/02/95 – 04/03/95.
• Robert and Elizabeth
• Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffman
• Oliver
• Showboat – 1989 Chelmsford, with conductor Peter Dyson
• Verdi - La Traviata - Opera 74, Bolton, Lancs. September 2009
• Bizet - The Pearl Fishers - Opera 74, Bolton, Lancs. September 2010
  

Teaching experience

• Currently teaching privately from home and in Booths Music shop, Bolton.
• September 1990 – July 1996 peripatetic clarinet/piano teacher at Ibstock Place School, Roehampton, London.
• September 1990 – July 1996 private teaching from home
• September 1985 – June 1986 – peripatetic clarinet teacher at Christian Brothers Secondary School, Falls Road, Belfast.

Other Skills

• Competent use of Sibelius software
• Orchestration and arranging (over a 6year period for the Ibstock Place School orchestra, wind band and choir).
• Manuscript copying