'Wanna be'  Renaissance Man ! Drop me a line!

Musician/Artist/MusicEducator
Playing guitar for more than 45 years in many different styles and settings.

Musician/Artist living in the Montreal. Spent many years as a music educator at the secondary IV & V levels and above. Ran the Music dept. with the Creative Arts Team for Youth Horizons, Dawson Alternatives as well as other schools for the P.S.B.G.M. and the Endlish Montreal School Board. Taught privately for over 4 decades while gigging solo and with others playing many styles of music in several settings on a regular basis for more than 45 yrs. Currently focused on improvisational music and visual arts. Can view some oribinal artwork at GMT Art on Facebook. See more at:  https://www.facebook.com/GlennMichaelThompsonArtworks/

I am a British composer who specialises in music for theatre and have written several operas and musicals and a ballet. Alongside this runs an interest in writing music for the concert hall and works to date include much chamber music including a string quartet which made the finals of the Chamelion Composers' Competetion in 2000 held at Croydon's Clock Tower, a prize winning opera Fur (1998 Alan Rawsthorne Prize - awarded by the RNCM on graduation), and most recently a Piano Quartet (2006) which won the Primrose Composition Competition awarded by the LCM and has since been shortlisted by SPNM for their shortlist during the 2007 'Call for Scores'. Other music includes much orchestral music including in 1997, Towards the Gates of Heaven (first performed by the RNCM Wind Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell) a vast tone poem depicting Jesus' resurrection into heaven. Also I have written several works for piano and organ (my two principal instruments) and music for the church. Works in progress include two musicals; 'Sirens' with book and lyrics by Anthony Dowlatshahi and 'Up in Arms' with book and lyrics by Laurence Roman. I graduated with a B Mus (Hons) degree from the RNCM in 1998, having studied Composition with Dr. Anthony Gilbert, and most recently in 2006, I completed a Masters in Theatre Composition at the London College of Music (music faculty of Thames Valley University) studying with Francis Pott and Laurence Roman (formally assistant to Andrew Lloyd Webber at RUG) and was awarded a Pass with Merit. My music can be heard on myspace and youtube also.

Empathetic Music Theory
PhD Student in Music Theory & Cognition
Music is a magic that can change the world. It starts by connecting us.

Music has been dormant with me for decades. Somehow I needed a respite after the familiar opposition of accepting a place in the conservatory (I tried out as organist and as percussionist and got accepted as percussionist). It was not until I needed music for one of my other artistic skills, film making, that it came back in force. Since then I have decided to also adapt classical music... among others because it reduces the amount of fights about authorship I have with the BMI, BMG and GEMA. If some of their nice kids have a problem with the music I can always wipe a centuries old sheet music under their noses (and yes, that happened with my interpretation of Albinoni's Adagio).

Musician - clarinetist, composer, teacher. Author of Tonal Diversions blog. Sheet music available at SheetMusicPlus: http://bit.ly/LAS-SMP

Followers of EmilyGray1