Category Archives: Music

June 10th June was our last show of the 2016 run of The Winter’s Tale at The Royal Opera House. Here is the stage band, Martine, Squeezy and the Shed Builders.

The One Show BBC 6th Jan 2016. Great fun doing Dickensian on the One Show.

New service offering recordings done remotely of Cimbalom, Dulcimer. Drum Kit and all other percussion instruments. Professionally recorded by Paul Golding. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325710/)

This is the augmented Wolf Hall Band recording the music for the play’s transfer to Broadway NY. The composer is Stephen Warbeck kneeling first on the right. We were in Alcester near Stratford at Vada Studios, a beautiful Elizabethan manor … Continue reading →

Here in the Pit Of the Aldwych Theatre for Wolf Hall on a night when I was MD

I played on all the films in the Lords of the Rings Trilogy. I played hammered dulcimer as part of the Hobbit band for the scene where Gandalf rides into the Shire. I remember the first recording session at a … Continue reading →

I recently played solo dulcimer on the soundtrack of the movie Hercules. The music by Fernando Velasquez was recorded in Abbey Road 2.

I am here at the Aldwych for a limited run of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies playing percussion and second MD. There are five band members playing the score by Stephen Warbeck calls for cimbalom/percussion, percussion, guitar, clarinet … Continue reading →

This is the stage band in The Winter’s Tale a ballet by Chris Wheeldon and Joby Talbot. While it is written for dulcimer, the music required a portable chromatic instrument with a 3.3 octave range. I designed and built a … Continue reading →

The Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North brings forth two new chamber operas. This is the first time I have ever played a one player part that included cimbalom and percussion.