Music is who I am, it is everything I live and breathe. On this site I wish to share thoughts, performances, and insights, exploring what it means to be an artist, to create and to share. On the blog you will find my own musings, ranging from detailed articles on music and performance, thoughts on more contemporary culture, and explorations on the myriad of connections between seemingly disparate art forms. My regular monthly feature ‘Ask the Artist’ explores the people behind the artwork, in which I share thoughts from composers, performers, dancers, actors, painters, photographers, pretty much anyone in the creative arts, on why they do what they do.

I think sometimes my parents wonder where my musical talent came from. No one else in my immediately family are musicians, but my grandmother played the piano, and it is to her that I owe my initial love of the instrument. Just as importantly, I grew up surrounded by music, on record, on tape, and later CD. As a baby my parents would play me Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony at bedtime, ever hopeful that I would be asleep by the storm… As a toddler I would frequently ask my parents to put on music, early favourites were Queen’s Greatest Hits and The Moody Blues.

My first musical love is the music of Alexander Scriabin and his vision of an artwork which would draw upon all artistic disciplines, act on all the senses, and in which the audience themselves would be an integral part has greatly influenced my interest in cross-arts and cross-genre collaboration. I consider growing up in an environment surrounded by music ranging from the classical masters, to heavy metal, jazz, and prog rock hugely fortunate and significant. My every day listening ranges from Mingus to Mahler, to Bob Dylan to Bach, and much more besides. It is this love of musical diversity that has led to where I am now artistically: co-founder of Multiphonic Arts, a small organisation that presents performances which encompass a wide range of musical genres, as well as drama, dance, poetry, and painting.