A note on this site, and why one place
Teaching, composing, writing and filmmaking look like four careers. From the inside they are one question asked in four languages.
People who meet me through one part of my work are sometimes surprised to find the others. The piano teacher composes. The composer runs an academy. The man who writes about learning also releases albums. It can look like restlessness.
I would describe it differently. Everything I do comes back to one question: how do people learn, and what becomes possible when they do? Music was where I first studied that question seriously, because music is unusually honest. A method either works or it doesn't, and you can hear which within a few weeks.
What this site is for
This site gathers the work in one place so that the connections are visible. The Education pages describe the academy and the philosophy behind it. The Music pages hold the performing and recording life, from a West End stage at seven to the albums. Writing and Film cover the longer-form thinking and storytelling. The Journal is where I think out loud about all of it.
A clear idea is one you can explain to a nine-year-old without lying to them.
That is the standard I try to hold the writing here to. If something I have written is not clear, that is a fault of the thinking, and I would rather know. The contact page is the quickest way to tell me.