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I'm a freelance filmmaker based in London, with skills in cinematography, editing, lighting, and sound design. 

Recent projects include creative promotional videos for arts events, visual material for Motion and Meaning, a music and dance project in collaboration with Ensemble Klang and leading contemporary dancer-choreographers, as well as a new work for Ensemble Klang, Breathe.  A short opera Perfect Child, on the theme of ‘The Modern Prometheus’, in collaboration with librettist Deborah McMahon and the Royal College of Music Opera department, directed by Bill Bankes-Jones, conducted by Natalie Murray, and a short film Urban Wilderness, created as part of the RCM’s Great Exhibitionists series, March 2018.

As a composer, my music has been played in venues including The Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Saatchi Gallery and St Martin-in-the-Fields and I've worked with ensembles including The Helsinki Chamber Choir, The Latvian Radio Choir,  The Aurora Orchestra, The BBC Singers, the Villiers Quartet and Music Off Canvas.

Education:

Royal College of Music (Derek Butler Scholarship, RVW Trust bursary) 

The University of Oxford (BMus, First Class Hons) 

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