'I trained as a pianist, violinist and composer at the Royal College of Music, before taking up a scholarship to study music at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Composition, overseen by professor Robin Holloway, took a more central role there. My output was primarily classical concert music, although my tastes were becoming increasingly eclectic. A post-graduate year was spent studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where the existence of a thriving jazz course (world renown players such as Jason Rebello and Tim Garland were contemporaries) and theatre school provided great opportunities for diversifying stylistically.

Overlapping with the year at Guildhall, I was fortunate enough to meet top hollywood orchestrator and film music academic Christopher Palmer, who at that time was working regularly with composers of the stature of Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre and Stanley Myers. I worked with Christopher (until his untimely death in 1995) on a number of major feature films such as The Three Amigos, Castaway, Valmont and Shirley Valentine in addition carrying out detailed restoration work (transcribing soundtracks into short score) of some of William Walton and Malcolm Arnold’s ‘lost’ film scores of the 40’s and 50’s such as Henry V, Major Barbara, Bridge Over The River Kwai and Whistle Down The Wind.

After leaving Guildhall, I also started to cut my teeth as media music composer. An opening appeared to write music for television commercials through sending a demotape to Andrew Sunnucks then head of music production company Made To Measure Music (before he formed his own company Big Picture Music). The work that resulted included commercials such as Rover, Pizza Hut ('Hit the Hut' campaign), Hitachi, Daihatsu, JVC, Faberge, Sure and Greene King.

The first chance to write media music outside commercials came on what proved to be a very successful BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series In The Red, that starred Michael Williams as the world weary BBC crime correspondent who solves the mystery of a bizarre series of murders involving one pound coins, and Stephen Fry and John Bird as the scheming BBC radio controllers. It was to have three follow up series In The Balance, In The Chair and In The End. This was followed by the 18th Century Town v Country comedy drama Babblewick Hall (two series), that has a baroque style score albeit with an anarchic slant. The next commission, House Of The Spirit Levels, again a comedy drama, written by Nick Revell of 'Drop The Dead Donkey ' fame and starring Alastair McGowan and Alison Steadman, has an unusual mix of the south american and gothic ghoulism. The most recent radio work is Rigor Mortis, a comedy series scheduled for release in May of this year.

The first opportunity to write for a television project came when the successful spoof 'fly on the wall' radio series People Like Us, starring Chris Langham, transferred to TV. I also wrote music for Vic Reeves Rogues Gallery (Discovery/BBC3) and arranged the title music for The Girlie Show (C4). My music has also featured in Spooks (BBC1), Dr Who (BBC1), QI (BBC2), Bremner, Bird and Fortune (C4), The Lenny Henry Show (BBC1) and documentaries such as Horizon (BBC2), Who Do You Think You Are (BBC1), Flying Through Britain (ITV1), Going Straight (C4) and Ray Mears Bushcraft (BBC2). For a more complete list see my credits. Complimenting the work in television I also write for media music libraries Boosey & Hawkes and Audio Network

I have always kept in touch with my roots in classical concert music over the years. Works include:

Falls, an unaccompanied choral work premiered by the Dunedin Consort in 2000 at the Wigmore Hall. It's a series of six songs with texts by the poet John Greening that are about the stories and folklore surrounding the Niagara Falls. It was toured round Canada last year.

Moccasin Trail, a jazz/classical piece written for the saxophonist John Harle, that he played on a live broadcast by BBC Radio 3 at the Wigmore Hall.

Sub Zero , a jazz big band work that is on the Guildhall Big Band's CD Essence.

The Queue, a cappella vocal piece for the Swingle Singers

Waltzing Conchita, a piece for internationally acclaimed saxophonist Tim Garland’s ‘Underground Orchestra’ that was premiered at the Pizza Express (Dean Street) in 2002.

Various of my works for piano and organ are available as sheet music published by Spartan Press.'