T h e a t r e
What I do: My time is generally shared between composing and performing .

Since completing my degree in Theatre and Visual Art I have worked more or less continually in and around theatre arts, composing, performing, teaching and devising. I have composed over twenty scores for Dance and Theatre productions from major European theatres to bizarre locations. I have worked with many internationally known performers and musicians, producing sountracks and performing live interventions onto the stage. My training and experience in the many aspects of theatre place me well to advise and assist in devising, choreographing and staging of work.

My own work is characterised by its investigative nature. Humour and an openness to the occasion allow a diversity and freshness to my music whether it is a live solo or a functional backdrop to a dance or installation.

CURRENT THEATRE PROJECTS:

Stumble Dance Circus - "An evening of instability" NW uk tour.

Echo Echo dance theatre - Consequences. Ireland tour.

Echo Echo dance theatre - "Resonance" Ireland touring, Buccarest, Ramalla, Aurora Nova Edinburgh.

IOU theatre - "Tattoo": outdoor show with moving stages and moving soundsystem, to tour Britain Summer 2003.

Elbow Room Dance Company - "Medsmama" multi-media show made at the Lemon Tree Aberdeen, about Armenian roots using traditional and modern music.

Ursula Laeubli - "Under Observation": solo dance with video and recorded music.

Matilda Leyser - "Dead point": third collaboration with aerial-theatre maker. Touring Britain autumn '03.

RECENT THEATRE PROJECTS:

Big Theatre, "52degrees south": at the new Imperial War Museum in the North - June 2002. A show using quadraphonic sound, video and recorded interviews with Falklands war veterans, about how war shapes lives.

Corali Dance Company - "The Shed Show": a dance show in a shed performed at Tate Modern and Cafe gallery Southwark.

Be and Cue , is a live performance piece with Mildmanjan involving recycling construction work , unique artefacts and live music .
   
OTHER THEATRE PROJECTS INCLUDE COMPOSING FOR:

 

The Ernst Busch Theatre, Berlin
(The Soldier's Tale by Igor Strawinsky) In which we reworked Stravinsky's score for Cello, electronics, small turntable and minidisk.

Library Theatre (Manchester), between the scenes music for Sooty script writer Bill Taylor

Contact Theatre (Manchester), Kevin Fegan's "Totally Wired" freudian shenanegins for all the family


 

Improvised Theatre:

Telling Times International Research Group ; Tours in Germany '96 & Ireland '98.

Included Musicians , Dancers and Actors from Russia, Estonia, Switzerland, Germany, N.Ireland and England numbering as many as 22. We worked together for months at a time researching, studying and performing improvisations