About me

I’m a professional musician – pianist, singer, composer – and also a passionate and innovative teacher and coach. My most treasured musical skill is improvisation. To create music spontaneously that makes tonal and rhythmic sense, requires a mindful, meditative state. To find this, I focus my mind exclusively on the deep, simple structures or principles that underpin rhythm and tonality then let go. This way, I can let my body and soul tune into 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 as naturally as music. So I have spent decades practising meditation and studying books on philosophy and psychology because I’ve always believed that living in a flowing, creative way is as much a skill to be learned as musicianship. I have found that with study and practice, it can be done consciously and naturally, just like when I make music.

To find the state of flow, we need to focus the mind on a simple model and let go! You can practise any skill using this approach whilst rhythm and voice work, mindfulness and meditation practice are powerful ways to discover the power of flow. In a state of flow, we achieve optimal performance in our activities, always growing our skills and discovering greater fulfilment, peace and courageous compassion in life.