MUSIC PERFORMANCE & RECORDING PROJECTS
I create and compose new music, improvise, and perform in music across all genres. A strong supporter of new music performance and education, I presently teach music, direct ensembles and deliver workshops and performances at the Riverina Conservatorium of Music, in school music programs, along with teaching and playing music independently in a wide range of styles throughout the Riverina.
My performance background is forged from private classical tuition, casual employment with professional orchestras and a graduate of the famous Jazz program from the NSW State Conservatorium of Music.
Interspersed throughout a well-travelled, stylistic, kaleidoscopic maze are performances, brass section arrangements and recordings for legendary and independent Australian contemporary acts such as Fanny Lumsden, Dr Kong and the Stem Cells, On The Stoop, Christa Hughes, Reg Livermore, Jak Housden, Richard Clapton, Ray Brown and the Vegas Payback, John Farnham, Ross Hannaford (Daddy Cool), Gangajang, The Jive Bombers, The Models and Vanetta Fields, along with playing in professional theatre seasons, television orchestras and backing international acts.
You can check out my contributions to John Farnham’s EPIC Whispering Jack comeback and his national and international tours with my horn section at the time – The Brasstards.
Watch the highly acclaimed biopic and 2023 ARIA winner – Finding The Voice https://www.johnfarnhamfindingthevoicemovie.com.au/ for video of The Brasstards with John at the massive European summer music festivals.
Listen to this amazing new podcast – He’s The Voice:
Around 1:06:45 – 1:10. More episodes, music extracts and interview segments to come.
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjsZW_pEM8
Episode 14 – Whispering Jack and Jack’s Back HORN SECTION THROWBACK featuring The Brasstards: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3V7rGBvEVkTTViVZZY2AXZ?si=f802cd04e9ae4efc
Performing six nights a week for twelve months in one of Africa’s first five-star multi-racial nightclubs during the Apartheid era launched an interest in music from other cultures – in particular Brazil, Cuba, Africa, Jamaica and the Caribbean – and over the years I have been a member of notable Sydney Latin groups Espirito, Batuka, Cumana and Son Veneno.
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