I am an experienced, well-qualified and collegially minded musician based in north London (UK) with up-to-date Enhanced DBS clearance. I work with Anglican, Catholic and Nonconformist congregations that find themselves temporarily without an organist for Sunday or weekday services. Those I work with tell me that they appreciate my reliability, my preparation and my good-natured musical leadership.

My Bachelor’s degree in music is from King Alfred’s College, Winchester (now the University of Winchester) and while an undergraduate I completed a course of initial teacher training (ITT) and gained the Royal College of Music’s diploma (ARCM ‘with honours’) for organ performance.

I then studied at the Royal Academy of Music (University of London) on the Advanced Post-graduate Performers course, focussed on choral conducting, organ improvisation and organ performance. Here I gained the Principal’s ‘Frederick Keene Prize’ for organ performance and the Academy’s licentiate diploma (LRAM) for organ teaching.

Subsequently I have gained a Master’s degree in music (APU Cambridge) with studies focussed on Post Vatican II liturgical policies & musical practices. I also have a PhD in music (Goldsmiths, University of London) with research focussed on secular music-making in early eighteenth-century London. My doctoral research was funded by the UK  Arts and Humanities Research council (AHTC).

I have successfully combined my life in music not only with being for 15 years a classroom teacher in London primary and secondary schools – I hold Qualified Teacher Status – but also with a further 16 years working in UK HIgher Education, firstly as a Research Fellow at UCL (University of London) and then as an international-projects manager (also UCL), finally as a research-project manager at Birkbeck (University of London).

.And to all those special people who have variously been musical mentors and musical guides … “Thank you” : Chris Bowers-Broadbent, Anthony Caesar, Phillip Dyson, Ruby Franklin, Liz Garnett, Christopher Hogwood, Peter Holman, Peter Lea-Cox, Brian Longthorne, Charmian Manship, Simon McVeigh, Diana Owen, Arthur Pritchard, Ernest Piper, John Rowntree, Peter Smith, Paul Steinitz, Peter St-John Stokes, Bill Tamblyn, Mollie Wade, Arthur Wills.