Performer

I have now been playing musical instruments for over 40 years, and have extensive experience in the following types of performance:-

  • Big Band
  • Saxophone quartets and larger ensembles
  • Theatre pit orchestras
  • Soul/pop/function bands
  • Wind orchestras
  • Classical orchestral performances
  • Solo performer

As a theatre pit orchestra player I’ve been involved in a wide range of shows with some fantastic amateur dramatic societies, including the following (though I’m sure to have missed something!):-

  • 9 to 5
  • The Addams Family
  • Aladdin (Panto)
  • All Shook Up
  • Annie
  • Anything Goes
  • Barnum
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Boyfriend
  • Bugsy Malone
  • Cabaret
  • Calamity Jane
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Cinderella (Panto)
  • Crazy for You
  • Curtains
  • Dick Whittington (Panto)
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
  • Evita
  • FAME
  • Follies
  • Footloose
  • Full Monty
  • Ghost
  • Grease
  • Guys & Dolls
  • Gypsy
  • Hairspray
  • High Society
  • Jack & The Beanstalk (Panto)
  • King & I
  • Kiss Me, Kate
  • La Cage Aux Folles
  • Legally Blonde
  • Les Misérables
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Mack & Mabel
  • Made in Dagenham
  • Me & My Girl
  • Oklahoma
  • Oliver
  • Our House
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • The Producers
  • Singin’ In The Rain
  • Sister Act
  • Sleeping Beauty (Panto)
  • Snow White (Panto)
  • South Pacific
  • Starlight Express
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Sweet Charity
  • We Will Rock You
  • West Side Story
  • Whistle Down The Wind
  • Witches of Eastwick
  • Wizard of Oz

 

  • 9 to 5
  • Aladdin (Panto)
  • All Shook Up
  • Annie
  • Anything Goes
  • Barnum
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Boyfriend
  • Bugsy Malone
  • Cabaret
  • Calamity Jane
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Cinderella (Panto)
  • Crazy for You
  • Curtains
  • Dick Whittington (Panto)
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Evita
  • FAME
  • Follies
  • Footloose
  • Full Monty
  • Ghost
  • Grease
  • Guys & Dolls
  • Gypsy
  • Hairspray
  • High Society
  • Jack & The Beanstalk (Panto)
  • King & I
  • Kiss Me, Kate
  • La Cage Aux Folles
  • Legally Blonde
  • Les Misérables
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Mack & Mabel
  • Made in Dagenham
  • Me & My Girl
  • Oklahoma
  • Oliver
  • Our House
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • The Producers
  • Singin’ In The Rain
  • Sister Act
  • Sleeping Beauty (Panto)
  • South Pacific
  • Starlight Express
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Sweet Charity
  • We Will Rock You
  • West Side Story
  • Whistle Down The Wind
  • Witches of Eastwick
  • Wizard of Oz

As a theatre musician I have to play a wide range of instruments, and not just the sax.  I regularly use all of these (and other instruments are on the ‘shopping list’) :-

  • Soprano Sax
  • Alto Sax
  • Tenor Sax
  • Clarinet
  • Flute
  • Piccolo