The important stuff:
14+ instruments,
Vocal range from D2-D5,
Across +/- 8 different genres.
Able to improvise.
Sound good? Read more below!

As an instrumentalist:

I have been playing music and performing since I was a child. I grew up with folk music from the UK and USA, and later developed a love for Greek, Middle-Eastern and Balkan styles of folk, as well as ancient Western music such as early & ‘medieval’ styles.

I have been fortunate enough to be encouraged to be curious, and as such I’ve developed improvisational proficiency in several instruments and styles:

  • Piano accordion

  • Piano

  • Harp

  • Guitar (rhythm & accompaniment)

  • Bluegrass (5-string) banjo

  • Mandola

  • Whistle (low & high)

  • Celtic flute

  • Oud

  • Curas / tzouras & Greek bouzouki

  • Mountain dulcimer (strummed & bowed)

  • Double bass

  • Bodhran

  • Non-drum percussion (e.g. spoons, zils)

For a playlist of songs I’ve contributed to, including some of my band in Cape Town, click here! (Link directs to a Spotify playlist.)

As a
vocalist:

I often say that my ‘first instrument’ is my voice. I have a deep love of singing and exploring new styles and expanding my range. While I am perhaps strongest as a tenor, I routinely sing bass in a Shapenote group and contribute a high harmony when singing folk. To date, my full range when warm is from D2 to D5, with F2 to A4 being my comfortable range.

I have a background, albeit shortlived, in Western classical & opera; however, this background has enabled me to sing in variety of other styles, including:

  • Celtic

  • Bluegrass & Country

  • Shapenote singing (what is that?)

  • Greek traditional (Cycladic, Thracian, Epirian, Rebetika)

  • Plainchant & choral

  • Byzantine chant

  • Arabic & Middle-Eastern

  • Western classical & opera

As a session musician:

I have found a deep love of improvisation: listening to someone’s work, arriving at the studio, and generating a response which moves with the rest of the music, tailored to suit the artist’s vision.

As my musical background is in learning by ear, I tend to avoid having to learn by sheet music. However, I have found that this skill is improving, in part thanks to my Shapenote singing.

I have had the great pleasure to contribute to folk albums, and soundtracks for films and games.

Three projects I am particularly proud to have contributed to are:

  • Skin Diver, (2018) a short film by Katya Abedian. I recorded, edited, & mixed the original score by improvising while watching the edited footage (done by the incredible Holmes Awa), which was then blended into the film by the talented Daniel Thackwray.

  • Manor Lords OST (2021-2023)
    (Slavic Magic Studios via Pressure Cooker Studios)

  • Sonder (2024)
    (Rhuari Campbell a.k.a. Slow For A Poet)

I am also currently working on a solo project of Shapenote songs to be released later this year, and some of my musical ‘doodles’ can be found on my Soundcloud.