I have been involved in music for over 40 years as a performer, bandleader, composer, arranger and tutor, and have also attained the Graduate Diploma in Jazz from the City of Leeds College of Music and the MA Composition from the University Of Salford. I have performed at countless venues around the north of England, including several jazz festivals, Matt & Phred's Jazz Club in Manchester, the North West Tourism Awards, several weekly bar and restaurant residencies, and at weddings and parties, playing a very wide range of musical styles including jazz, soul, rock, blues, folk, world music and gypsy jazz, and have also played for large ensembles such as theatre pit orchestras and numerous big bands. As a tutor I have also worked for several organisations across the region, including More Music In Morecambe, Start In Salford, Atherton Community Band as musical director and sole instrumental tutor on various instruments, and I currently teach guitar in local schools for the local Music Service, and at a local community centre teaching an adult beginners guitar group.