is a composer, improvising guitarist and sound artist. Since graduating with a BPA from the London Conservatory of Music (2008), he has played a prominent part in the British improvised music scene.
He has performed throughout the UK and Europe, notably at Café Oto, WOMAD, The Vortex, HCMF, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Dutch Fretless Guitar Festival, International Festival for Artistic Innovation, the National Museum of Scotland, MEM Festival (Spain), and Trem Azul (Portugal).
As a solo artist he is a recipient of the Jerwood/PRS Take 5, Francis Chagrin Award, Hope Scott Trust Award, ECF grants, and has been commissioned to create work for BBC Jazz on 3, Late Junction, LumeLab, and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Broadcasts of his solo work have been featured on BBC radio, ResonanceFM and NTS. Interviews and features have been published in The Guardian, Wire, Quietus, Jazzwise, Louder than War, and Stereogum.
He has been a resident artist at: University for the Creative Arts, Great Exhibition of the North, and Associazione Artemista.
He co-runs the jazz/improv band Shatners Bassoon, recently completing an extensive ACE-funded UK tour following the release of their third album to critical acclaim (from which one track was nominated for a British Composer Award) funded by PRSF & nominated as Ambassadors by Jazz North.
Selected works: It’s All South to Me for computer-controlled Irn Bru, whiskey miniature, BrewDog bottle, shortbread tin and bowl of porridge (2018), Solo Guitar Duo for two guitars, eight loudspeakers and four MIDI amplifiers (2019), Robotic Ukulele Prototype, instrumental improvisation (2019), Ensemble Obsolete for tape, CD, eight loudspeakers and four amplifiers (2019), No Sense for tape (2019), Toy Piano & Drum Duet 1–3 for acoustic instruments with MIDI controller (2020), Disco Erosion for electronics (2020), Feedback Mobile for electronics (2020), Wet/Dry for loudspeakers and feedback microphones (2020), The Rite of Spring for toy piano (2021), Mechanisations for guitar, piano and percussion (2023).