Originally from London, I started my musical career training as a sound engineer and editor at Kingston College before starting work at London based music house Candle in 1996.

I have engineered and composed music for hundreds of commercials and short films ranging from Powergen to Irn-Bru to Mercedes-Benz. I appeared as an actor in the drumming advert filmed in 2006 for Cobra Beer as well as composing the music.... that was an experience!

I have won many awards during my career including a Silver and Gold at the Roses Advertising Awards and a Bronze at the British Television Advertising Awards.

I have had many of my music tracks released, the most recent being 'Amanzimtoti' which appeared on the Sansibar Sylt compilation album on German record label Kontor as well as 'Suveoo' which appeared on Puro Desert Lounge Weekend under London and Spanish record label Seamless.

I have also had seven other tracks released on The Glen Volume One compilation album through Zerosonic as well as 5 tracks on Soholoft released through Clear records.

My most recent project was writing original music for a theatre production called !AIA. Working with French director Philippe Pelen Baldini and his theatre company Theatre Tallipot, I composed music for the show as well as engineered the live sound for over 30 performances in Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Grahamstown and Reunion Islands. The show is still on tour around the world.

After an 11 year career as the studio manager for Candle Music in London, I moved to Cape Town, South Africa in 2007 where I still compose music for television, film, radio, theatre and other album projects both personal and commercial.

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