Live freelance performer

• Playing contrabass saxophone on the “Strange Cargo” tour with William Orbit

• Backing Lovers Rock icon Barry Biggs at Hackney Empire

• Touring with Wayne McGreggor  and Shobanah Jeyasingh dance projects – incl: BBC documentary “In-between”

• Opening the 1st Royal Festival Hall’s “Meltdown Festival” with “Hoketus” by Louis Andreisson

• Playing in contemporary productions at the National Theatre incl: “The Skriker” and “Mother Courage”

• Playing for the “Hilde Holger Dance Project” (mixed ability dance company) incl: performances in Vienna and London Theatre venues

Live Radio & TV performances

• Radio 4’s “Excess Baggage” and London Radio’s Arts Show talking about the “Fathers Footsteps” project

• Guesting on BBC2’s “Later….with Jools Holland”

• Saturday morning childrens’ TV programme “Parallel 9” with various artists

• “The Chart Show” with “Izit”

• Live recordings for Radio 3 and Classic FM

Band leader

• “Powdered Rhino Horns” - rare groove jazz

• “Hoot” - funky jazz

• “Life on Venus” - poppy jazz

Ensemble Member

• “Izit” - half of the horn section for acid jazz band incl: international live gigs and several albums – founder member

• “Open Circle” - writing and performing music for original collaborative theatre pieces

• “Floral Harmony” - music that links to nature

• “Road 2 Trio” - light classical chamber group – incl: British Council funded tour to Europe

• “Icebreaker” - contemporary music ensemble - incl: Arts Council CMN tour and “Bang on a Can” Festival”NY)

• “Flying Gorillas” - devising music and performing with this dance project - incl: research project in South America with indigenous tribes

• “The Street Scorpions” - baritone sax bass lines form this acoustic street band – incl: gala night at Chelsea Flower Show

• “Tricksy Trobairitz” – improvised street theatre, story telling and contemporary opera

Free Improvisation collaborator

• Improvising for a performances with poet Don Share at the Swindon Poetry Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy3R6jlVLBc

• Being rowed around the Highgate Ladies Pond while improvising for the “Healing Water Celebrations”

• Free Improvisation gigs in Italy with “The Franco Fergusson Collective”

• Pop up gallery appearances as a strolling clarinetist with the “Tree Players” artists collective – incl: the “Anti-Gallery Gallery Show 2015” at the Espacio Gallery in London

• Taking the “Fathers Footsteps” exhibition soundtrack to venues as a live improvisation project: Soundcloud Link

Musician in Residence

• Darlington Summer School –Instrumentalist for the advanced Composition course with Louis Andreisson

• Composed and arranged incidental music for theatre productions at “Oval House Theatre” in London

Recording artist

• Izit: https://www.discogs.com/artist/6686-Izit

• “Stories” – various labels

• “The Whole Affair” – Quattro

• “The Imaginary Man” – Quattro

• “Totally Wired” volumes 2 & 8 – Acid Jazz

• “Deep Heat” vol 6 – Acid Jazz

• The Powdered Rhino Horns: - “Blow Job” – Tongue & Groove & Quattro

• Main Street People: - “Music, Sex & Mathematics” – Yo Mama/Boombastic

• Icebreaker: - “Terminal Velocity” – Argo (Decca) - “Trance” – Argo (Decca)

• Ben Reed - “Station Masters” – Gare du Nord Records

  https://benreed3.bandcamp.com/album/station-masters

• Shriekback -“Glory Bumps” Soundcloud Link

• Martin Pyne - “insomnia” Soundcloud Link

Other freelance work:

• Function and corporate work - incl: the City of London Corporation

• Session player - incl: BBC series “The Crouches”)

• Regional Theatre - incl: Bolton Hexagon, and Chichester Festival)

• Regular deputising for other groups - incl: “Saxology” saxophone quartet https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq5waPmJoWmM2gipQk4qcww

• Label manager for “Pig and Trumpet” and “Tongue and Groove” independent record labels

• Artist model for a north London artist collective -incl: painting used for “The Girl” - a novel by Maria Straw-Cinar

• Workshops for SPNM (The society for the Promotion of New Music) – working with compositions by young composers