LEARNING & CHOIRS

I maintain an active schedule as a choral director, educator and project leader, alongside my composing and teaching at the Royal College of Music. My work brings together my passion for high-level choral music, community engagement and music education for young people.

Choral Direction

With over 15 years’ experience as a choral musician, director and educator, I currently lead the music programme at St Mary, Newington (Kennington), where I direct a professional quartet, run a newly founded children’s chorister scheme and lead a community choir.

In September 2025, I will also take on the directorship of Bromley Youth Choir — a high-level SATB choir for singers aged 11–18 from across the borough.

My background includes Musical Director roles with choirs in Scotland, and work as a professional baritone and conductor in both concert and cathedral settings.

Education & Composition Projects

Alongside my choral work, I’ve developed and led numerous composition and creative learning projects for young people and amateur musicians. Some recent highlights are below:

Giove in Argo – London Handel Festival / Handel House Museum

In collaboration with the London Handel Festival and Handel House Museum, I worked over a period of several weeks with a class of GCSE students at the Ursuline Academy, Ilford to compose and stage a new opera, in response to Handel’s Giove in Argo.

A link to the final performance can be found on the attached link.

Red Note New Music Makers

During 2017/18 and 2018/19, I worked alongside Red Note Ensemble as Workshop Leader for their New Music Makers Project: an initiative in which students from across Glasgow and Ayrshire schools created new compositions, culminating in a concert performance by Red Note musicians. The project was announced as Community/Education Project of the Year at the Scottish Awards For New Music 2018.

Composer-in-Residence, Handel House Museum

From 2014-2015 I was Composer-in-Residence at Handel House Museum. As CiR, I devised and led weekly music education workshops with school groups (from primary to A level), and piloted Baroque Central – an initiative which encouraged creativity, composition and singing in inner-city London primary schools.
From 2015 - 2018 I continued to work on the Baroque Central Project as a freelance Animateur.