Conductor · Researcher · Coach.
You can find me mostly where humour and music meet —
on the podium, in the archive, and in the awkward gap between the two.
Welcome
I’m a conductor and researcher with an unfashionable devotion to operetta, musical humour, and historically informed Romantic performance.
My doctorate, La Grande Bouffe, asked why comic music theatre is so hard to perform well, and what we lose when we treat it as merely light. The same question follows me onto every podium.
This is where the performing, the research, and the writing meet. Have a look around.
Feel free to connect, engage, and perhaps even discover a shared curiosity for the nuances of music and its ever-evolving narrative.
PERFORMANCE
Opera, operetta, and the serious business of the orchestra pit.
RESEARCH
Opera, operetta, and the serious business of the orchestra pit.
WRITING
Opera, operetta, and the serious business of the orchestra pit.
From the writing desk
The return of the Artistic Path (or: Why AI might save the artist after all)
Everyone is debating whether AI will replace artists. But perhaps we’re asking the wrong question entirely. What if the threat is only to an industry, while giving renewed value to something we’ve nearly forgotten: the transformative path of making itself?
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