About Me
| I studied music at the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating in 1998. Whilst there I received a commendation in the solo competition. I was very active in both the wind band and orchestra where I developed a love for the bass clarinet. I was also involved with a wide range of chamber music. On graduation I became a peripatetic music teacher in the Manchester area, before deciding to join the Royal Air Force as a musician. Soon after joining I was posted to the Band of the RAF College, based at Cranwell, Lincolnshire. I undertook many foreign tours, including destinations such as Germany, Holland, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands. I spent most of my career playing on the solo clarinet stand and regularly featured as a soloist. I also performed the Rondo from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester as part of the Massed Bands Concert Tour. I used my chamber music experience to run the Caprice clarinet quartet. Whilst in the RAF I rediscovered my love for not only studying, but also the saxophone. Whilst undertaking my Masters Degree at Nottingham University I decided to reacquaint myself with the instrument after not playing it since school and soon gained my LRSM with distinction. It was at this time that the Equinox Saxophone Ensemble was formed and I became a founding member. I have now left the RAF to pursue a career in teaching. At the Witham Hall Prep School I am employed as the clarinet and saxophone teacher, where I also teach theory and run small groups. As a peripatetic music teacher for Lincolnshire Music Service I teach woodwind as well as being the woodwind tutor for the Lincolnshire Youth Concert Orchestra (LYCO) and Lincolnshire Youth Symphony and Wind Orchestras (LYSO and LYWO) where I run sectional rehearsals. My own successful, rapidly expanding private teaching practice is becoming increasingly popular with a wide variety of instruments and stadards being taught. I consider it of the utmost importance as a teacher to maintain my high level of performance skills. I still perform regularly as clarinettist and bass clarinettist with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Nottingham Concert Orchestra and Boston Sinfonia. I am frequently asked to play with choral societies and other amateur orchestras. Theory has always been of interest to me and I am an ABRSM Theory Examiner, regularly marking the grade 6-8 papers. Qualifications
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