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20+ Years

of Music Training & Performance

40+

Happy Students

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Sep 2025 – Present

Freelance Orchestral Percussionist

Freelance timpanist and percussionist providing dep support in orchestral settings. Orchestras include, British Police Symphony Orchestra, Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Della Arte and Hope Metropolitan Orchestra.

Nov 2024 – Present

Crosby SymphonyOrchestra (CSO)

Percussionist and Timpanist. Works include Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No.2, Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Holst’s The Planets.

Feb 2024 – Present

Liverpool Mozart Orchestra (LMO)

Percussionist and Timpanist. Works include Haydn’s Symphony No.101, Saint-Saens’ Symphony No.3 and Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances.

Sep 2022 – Jul 2023

Universidad de Alcalá Symphony Orchestra, Madrid, Spain

A key member of a local and international student orchestra, playing advanced-level percussion, viola and violin.

Sep 2021 – May 2025

Liverpool University Music Society Ensembles (LUMS)

Deputy Symphony Orchestra Manager (2024-2025). Percussion Ensemble leader (2024-2025). External Communication and Outreach Officer (2022-2025). Big Band Conductor (2022-2023). Deputy Conductor for the Stage and Screen Orchestra (2023-2024). Playing percussion and viola in a multitude of ensembles and a member of the UniBrass 2024 team, winning best percussion.

Apr 2018 – Dec 2024

City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra (CSYO)

Principal percussionist, playing a wide range of tuned and auxiliary percussion. Additional responsibilities include the training of non-percussionists across a wide range of age groups and abilities. Step into the viola section when pieces and symphonies contain no percussion parts.

Sep 2017 – Jul 2020

Sheffield Music Academy

Viola, violin and principal percussionist and timpanist with additional responsibility for the training of non-percussionists.

Sep 2015 – Jul 2020

Sheffield Music Hub

Viola, violin and principal percussionist and timpanist.

Sep 2012 (Age 4)

My music Journey Begins…

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