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I create staged classical concerts that make music come alive — especially for young audiences. Performing across the UK and internationally, I have also directed award-winning productions. I’m Creative Director of MishMash Productions whom I work with both as a director and as a performer.

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What I do

• Direct staged concerts: for orchestras and chamber groups

• Musical direction: for theatrical classical productions

• Cello performance: recitals, chamber music, contemporary projects, staged concerts

• Education & workshops: training musicians in staged concerts and teaching the cello​

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Directing highlights 2025

• February — Let’s Build a Town (Music at Oxford): nominated for a 2025 YAM Award.

• June — CBSO Sports Day (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and MishMash Productions): Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

• July — Leap Year (Sinfonia Viva and MishMash Productions): Nottingham Chamber Music Festival and Nottingham primary schools.

• August — NYO Associates project (National Youth Orchestra and MishMash Productions): Youth Zones in the North West.

• September — creative project for four violins (CBSO  and MishMash Productions): Birmingham primary schools.

• October — Toot! (MishMash remount): Wigmore Hall.

• November — New MishMash production for viola and cello (premiere).

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Previous recent productions include

• In Sync (Scottish Ensemble and MishMash) which I co-directed with Ria Ashcroft and which won a YAM Award and performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall and Kings Place as well as touring schools.

• Ruby’s Worry (MishMash) which I perform in and will be re-touring in February 2026 including a 2-week residency at Polka Theatre in London.

• Triolino (Jeunesse) a production created and performed in Austria.

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After studying philosophy at Cambridge University and cello at the Royal Academy of Music, I specialised in chamber music with a ‘Quartet Masters’ under the Maggini Quartet and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. I then co-founded TROUPE, a group that made theatrical concerts, performing at Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, CESC Brazil. In 2015 I joined MishMash productions with their first show, Hubbub, and in 2022 I was awarded an Arts Council Develop your Creative Practice award to learn more about stage directing. As part of this, I studied abroad with Oorkaan and took a directing course at Central School of Speech and Drama.