Introductions

I am an experienced, well-qualified and collegially minded musician based in north London (UK). I work with Anglican, Catholic and Nonconformist churches and schools that find themselves temporarily without an organist for Sunday or weekday services. Those I work with tell me that they appreciate my reliability, my preparedness and my good-natured musical leadership. I have up-to-date Enhanced DBS clearance and public-liabllity insurance. I am a member of the Royal Collehe of Organists (RCO) and of the Independant Society of Musicians (ISM).

Background and Training

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 ARCM diploma ‘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 (AHRC).

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.