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I wear many hats in my career – singer, collaborator, coach, educator, composer, sound designer and lyricist. This has honed my ability to engage a wide range of skills to multi-disciplinary projects and identify the creative opportunities available.

Whether designing community projects, creating new music or tutoring young artists, I focus on facilitating the full creative individuality of each participant, as well as continually challenging my own artistic development.

I am interested in exploring alternative perspectives, discovering channels of expression, risking that I might be wrong, chancing that I may find something that simply feels right.

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PROFESSIONAL CREDITS

Freelance singer, choir conductor, artist and music consultant working internationally across the performing arts sector and music education sector.

As Choir Director, clients include:
Chant Productions, Football Association (FA), Liberty Choir, World Skills Opening Ceremony, Arbour House and

Barbican Creative Learning

Performance credits include:

Lead vocals for Fanta, Sky Sports Basketball, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Backing Vocals/Choir - Nightmares on Wax, Cadbury's, Felix Buxton (Basement Jaxx), FA Cup Final, F1 Abu Dhabi, Kirk Franklin, Nitin Sawhney, Linda Lewis, Kate Earl and Katie Wise & Bhakti Explosion.

Collaborations:
Nitin Sawhney, Arun Ghosh, MC Riz, Impossibilities group, E17 jazz collective.

Publications:
Collaboration in the Spotlight, Bulletin of Association for Information Science & Technology 2017
A Participatory Live Music Performance with Open Symphony - CHI2016

Creative Works:

Open Symphony - advanced music performance and high technology collaboration presented at Big Bang Data exhibition, Somerset House and CHI2016.

Abstract Songs - a suite of voice works exploring the lyrical, melodic and physical roles of a singer.

Punctuated Moment - a quadrophonic, 4-screen audio-visual installation presented at Curious Festival and shortlisted for ARK Inspired 2014

Compass Rose - interactive sound installation using flowers to trigger sound samples, presented at Dialogue Festival for Barbican Creative Learning