About me

I’m a professional musician – pianist, singer, composer – and also a passionate and innovative teacher and life coach. My most treasured musical skill is improvisation. To create music with tonal and rhythmic sense, completely spontaneously, requires a meditative state. I focus my mind exclusively on the deep, simple structures or principles that underpin rhythm and tonality then let go fully. This way, I can let my body and soul access a powerful inner musician that has an innocent and childlike quality but also a powerful, intuitive musical intelligence.

The solace and catharsis that playing music in this way provides is enormous. When improvising, I feel a deep sense of completeness and harmony. Unfortunately, like most human beings, many aspects of my life do not always flow so naturally. So I have spent decades practising meditation and studying books on philosophy and psychology as I believe living in a flowing, creative way is as much a skill as musicianship. I have found that with study and practice, it can be done consciously and naturally just as I make music. By finding a state of flow, through rhythm and voice work, mindfulness and meditation, we can achieve optimal performance in our work along with fulfilment, peace and courageous compassion in life.