I am an established composer, musician and sound artist with both story-telling and exploration at the heart of my practice. I have extensive performance experience and a great passion to inspire others in projects that have ranged from avant-garde jazz cabaret to indie-rock, whimsical psych-folk to Kalevala-inspired prog-rock.
Consistently, I have collaborated with extra-musical art forms, encompassing video, dance, theatre and circus. Stylistically too, I have always revelled in working in a wide range of influences: from acoustic to electronic.
My experience working in therapeutic music (with people with learning disabilities, looked after children and the elderly) as well as my study in counselling and psychotherapy, mean I am well suited to expressing the emotional depth and sensitivity needed for a pantheon of moods and characters. My wide experience with the highly theatrical Giffords Circus means I am well attuned to writing and performing music to tell stories for (and with) children.
In my own vox-popera, The Other Place, I thrived in outsourcing the libretti to members of the public where interviewees formed the basis of the work and their differing voices were honoured in a range of different styles and treatments from cyberpunk to Samuel Beckett.
Currently, I lead The Temple of Shibboleth, a 5-piece musical ensemble of women. Having released and toured our eponymous debut album last year, we are currently working on our second show. Our shows include elements of circus, theatre and multimedia with quirk and humour to explore climate collapse, feminism and magick to honour the planets and their deities and in turn the appliances of housekeeping to bless the sanctity of Home.
In this sense I am adept at defining a conceptual realm and then seeing it through distinctly in all aspects of my work.
