Singer / Composer / Educator / Researcher
- UK-based singer, composer, educator and researcher
- Lecturer in in Music Education at the Royal College of Music and Trinity-Laban Conservatoire in London
- Research interests include: group singing, music health and wellbeing, musician education and Community Music (CM)
- Pioneered the use of Sensemaker ‘distributed ethnography’ as a method for arts and cultural research
- Forthcoming monograph Music Making and the Civic Imagination explores the potential of music making as a resource for sustainable development
- Former Head of Higher Education and Research at Sage Gateshead in NE England from 2010-19
- Perform solo and with a range of ensembles including a capella quartet Mouthful and jazz / folk collective The Coast Road.
- Founding Creative Director of SoundWave in west Cumbria 2005-10
- Lead three choirs – Sing Owt! Wild Chorus and the North Cumbria Recovery Choir – in the ‘natural voice’ tradition
- Musical Director of the award-winning Fellowship of Hill and Wind and Sunshine mountain-top singing project for the National Trust in 2018
