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Create your free myspace visitor maps , myspace layouts and myspace comments .Originally trained as a classical pianist in Queensland from eight years of age, I diversified my style with influences from jazz/blues and rock to ambient. Also delved into music for theatre and world music (particularly Afro-Caribbean, Brazilian, Indian classical music, African and Middle Eastern styles). Exploring free jazz opened my mind to the unlimitless nature of improvisational creative music rather than reproducing the works of classical masters.I have composed and arranged music for many groups over the years including Tryst, Hot Cargo and The Groove Merchants and collaborated with vocalists such as Natasha Leicester, Kerry Reid and Virginia Hyam in my adopted town of Adelaide. Have been a member of many bands including The Bank of France, Towards the Sun, Tjalkuri and Sporting Life and accompanied artists such as Jude Elliot, Hillary O'Neil, Alain Valodze and Eduardo Niebla.In the 1990s, I worked extensively as a composer/performer and co-writer/music director for theatre in Europe. This comprised Swiss and German productions, "Fantasie-Impromptu", "Workman", "Karussell", Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and "Dirty Pleasures". Music direction and composition for Australian theatre productions includes "Radio Daze", "All Aboard", "Carnivalia", "Welcome to Paradise" and "Un Pugno Di Terra" for Adelaide-based professional companies Doppio Teatro, Magpie Theatre, Cirkidz and Jumbuck Theatre. Have also created music for dance with the Dance Company of New South Wales (now Sydney Dance Company), Australian Dance Theatre and the Australian Dancers Company in Perth who commissioned me as composer for their inaugural production, "Mauritius".Have worked as a lecturer in music theory, composition, arrangement and music technology in many Australian institutions including the University of Adelaide, the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the Gold Coast Institute of TAFE. While operating my recording studio in Adelaide, I produced and recorded other artists from a wide range of music styles.Currently developing solo and group projects as a pianist/accordionist with groups Global Village (world music ensemble), Caterpillar Room (an art rock group), singers Catherine Lambert, Diana Sautelle and Jude Elliot, and occasional outings with instrumentalists Alain Valodze (latin guitarist) and Stefan Richter (cello/bass). Currently working on a new solo album.My basic motto which has kept me along this meandering and amazing path of music discovery is "look after the music and the music will look after you".