Welcome!
| This personal website has evolved over the
past 10 years. I'm a project based composer and
musician, teacher and lecturer. I use this
site to share my music, photos and research and to dabble in HTML
code etc.
Occasionally I am asked to do work by people who pass by here or acquaintances want to catch up after a while. What ever your reason for visiting these web pages, I hope you find something interesting, you may wish to contact me via e-mail. The site is made with RapidWeaver for Mac OSX Leopard. |
I am happily married to Liz with whom I share a love of music, nature, photography, walking and life. We live near Wimborne Minster in Dorset. We have a small studio adjacent to the house. I travel to Birmingham to lecture at the Birmingham Conservatoire for part of the week. Private Pupils receive lessons by appointment.
Skills & Services
Do you have a project or work to can make use of my particularly skills? No project is too small or too large, if you have something you'd like me to help you with, or you just want some advice or consultation about matters musical, get in touch.- Private Teaching: Information about my teaching practice and methods, to e-mail an enquiry click here
- Curriculum Vitae: my CV to view and download
- Short Biography: a thumbnail sketch of my life.
Music
You are welcome to browse and download music to use for your own personal use, not for commercial purposes or resale.- Scores available on the Scorch pages use a plug-in that displays and plays the written score.
- A catalogue offers links to some selected scores.
I started as a 'reading' musician and then the more music I did, I relaised that there is no substitute for using our ears. The phrase "Playing by Ear" is often used, but have you ever thought of the irony in that phrase? I mean, how else are we supposed to engage in music? It is after all a craft which exclusively uses the ear.
Blog
From time to time I find things on the internet that I wish to share with you.- Current Blog - may have things to interest and entertain you.
- John Wesley Barker's Blog - made with Blogwavestudio which is no longer active.
- My AVANTI Cycle - cycle rides.
- My NZ Trip - New Zealand