Music Director

Tony is Music Director, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Composer-in-Residence for The Thanet Big Sing Community Choir.

Commissioned compositions include Being Human, Lost and Found, On the Tram to Nayland Rock, and Oh! I do like to be (choral works), Early in the Morning (new nursery rhymes by Charles Causley); Francesco de la Vega for Narrator and orchestra; and the musical, Sinta!

Tony is also a highly experienced Musical Director/Supervisor including The Rocky Horror Show (UK, Australia, South Africa), Spamalot, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and Pete Townshend’s, The Iron Man.

Tony has designed and led performing arts training programmes and departments at some of the UK’s leading performing arts institutions, including degree programmes at Trinity Laban (Senior Teaching Fellow), Central School of Speech & Drama, Rose Bruford College, and the Music Department at The BRIT School (where he taught Adele and Kate Nash).

During his tenure as Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at Guildhall School of Music and Drama he was the lead author on the School’s TEF2023 submission, achieving an outstanding GOLD rating.

Tony has also given masterclasses at many UK conservatoires, and in Denmark, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Japan.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Arts, Barcelona; a Senior Fellow of the HE Academy, and an EMCC-accredited professional development coach.