I have been playing and writing music for more than 20 years and teaching for almost half that time. As a child my first instrument was the guitar, I started with a folk music background. More recently I have been a singer, guitarist, bassist, and drummer in a number of touring rock bands, and composed in many genres, both in my own projects and commercially.

Music has been an important part of my life from before I can remember. In London, where I was born, my parents would take me to Covent Garden to hear free classical music, and I would try to play along with the band, with a ‘violin’ mad...