Music

I have been blowing down bits of wood and metal since I was eight when I got my first clarinet and began having lessons. At that time it was thought a wind instrument would strength my lungs and thus help to alleviate the asthma that made me a rake-thin hunch-shouldered weakling. By the age of 13 I was playing in the school orchestra and had also acquired a tenor sax, a brute of an instrument picked up cheap somewhere off Tottenham Court Road. Now almost a lifetime later I play clarinet, bass clarinet and alto sax and still think a long session is a good workout that will help to keep me breathing and alive a bit longer. Musical activies include:

Oxford Improvisers: active member (and treasurer) of this collective of musicians dedicated to the performance and support of free improvisation.

Dance: improvising musician with several dance groups in Oxford

AZUT - a quartet playing French chansons and more with a twist

Confluence: participant at monthly meetings of musicians, dancers and performers from many ethnic and musical backgrounds

regular one-off performances with music and poetry groupings.

Upcoming events:

12 February A Rumi Hour: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. poetry and music inspired by the Sufi poet Rumi

18 February The Hundred Years Gallery, London. performances with members of Oxford Improvisers and others

28 February Old Fire Station Cafe, Oxford Babelspeak: Concert of music and many languages as performance with members of Oxford Improvisers