Biography

I am a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer, known primarily as a drummer in the Contemporary and Klezmer music scenes. I grew up within a family of musicians in a house between an old forest, the M25 and the Metropolitan line, immersed in Big Band Jazz, Free Improv, Classical music, Klezmer, 1960s Pop and a well worn tape of the The A Team Theme Tune. I have performed all over the world and feature on several critically acclaimed recordings, with artists and performers that include Chris Potter, Alice Zawadzki, Vula Viel and Adrian Dunbar. UK Performance highlights include Ronnie Scott’s, South Bank Centre, Kings Place Festival and the EFG London Jazz Festival. Other festival appearances include Latitude, Green Man, Shambala and Wilderness.

I have written, released and performed my own work through Mayday Project, Stories and Land of If. I was one of the composers for Exit Map’s Moving On audio series and was also musician in residence for the Southbank Centre’s Skylark Cafe 2022-23, a regular cross-discipline events for people with various access needs, where I regularly made work with the participants. I was commissioned by the Southbank Centre to make Ground & Sound, a series of audio pieces for the QEH Rooftop Garden, made in collaboration with Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck and Grounded Ecotherapy

As a session musician, I have recorded for several film soundtracks and albums. I have also worked across theatre, dance and film, with productions for Turner Contemporary, Happy Days International Beckett Festival, Sefiroth, Rich Mix and London Jewish Film Festival. I have staged interdisciplinary arts events in collaboration with JW3, Dash Arts and Brick Box and as Pop-Up Circus, a grassroots multi-disciplinary arts organisation that gave a platform to emerging artists across all disciplines, staging exhibitions and live events in non-traditional venues including a steel workshop, abandoned music hall and railway staircase.

I am a passionate educator, with nearly two decades’ experience teaching music, drums and delivering music workshops, most recently with Mindful Music, Jewish Music Institute and Sage Gateshead. I work regularly with Play for Progress, a charity that uses music and creative therapies to build healthy and resilient relationships that support and amplify the voices of unaccompanied refugees and asylum-seekers.

Having taken a masterclass with Clown Master Philippe Gaulier, I am working on my first theatre solo show, ‘Behind the Beat’ (it’s basically me trying to set up a drum kit to varying degrees of success). I developed this with Haley McGee during a residency at Canada Water Theatre. I have also been learning DIY instrument building with sound artist Leafcutter John and make radio shows for Faff FM.

 

“An overflow of creative juices, with each musician allowed the freedom to express their personality through a selection of finely tuned angular grooves and intricate melodic writing”
Jazz UK on Stories

“A heartening impression of the quixotic, optimistic and generously shared energies of London’s young artistic community.”
John Fordham, The Guardian on Pop-Up Circus

“A collection of rising stars on the British Jazz scene.”
Jez Nelson, BBC Radio 3

“These musicians are undoubtedly devoted to their art … the collision of sonorous rhythm and a backdrop of chaos make for a fervid debut.”
The Sunday Times on Thought-Fox