Early sparks, struck during classical childhood music theory and piano lessons in my native Belgium, smoldered until my final year of Drama School in South Africa. An assignment, to write, direct and stage an entire production, ignited my musical flame, lead me to compose the musical 'Spiders'. This earned me a distinction and favorable critical approval, but importantly, lit up the realisation that my first synthesizer, received as a birthday gift, was a key to unlock the music inside me.
All around me the sounds of Africa, the rhythms, beats and the people openly singing while they worked, had permeated my being. With an early version of Cakewalk,I was introduced to the joys of being able to sequence my music on a computer and create, modify and refined the music that seemed to naturally spill from within.
The frenetic sounds of the African bush at dawn and lazy drone of a watering hole in the midday sun seem to percolate within me, fusing freely with the early Baroque music I loved, the Opera I woke up to whilst growing up, and the stark sounds of club music I danced to, as one does.
Teaming up with a post production sound engineer earned me commissions to compose several hours of music for television programs and wildlife documentaries which were broadcast on SABC as well as for corporate videos. Subsequent time spent working in a music recording and production studio, outside San Francisco, exposed me to entirely different aspects of the music industry.
After relocating to the UK, I completed a course in media music composition through Music for the Media, achieving a Diploma in Media Composition. I have been playing violin for the last 5 years, about to start learning guitar and will shortly be completing a Cinematic Orchestration course.
I am currently active in SCOREcast London which affords me the opportuntiy to communicate and collaborated with artists and composers from all over the world. I have been privileged to have also been working as a demo composer and beta tester for Sonokinetic Sampling.
Please visit my Credits page to view a list of the most recent work I have completed.
