A lifetime in sound
I spotted an old wooden flute in a junk shop at fifteen, took it home and taught myself to play. A school friend took me to a jazz club, where Sonny Stitt showed me the rudiments of improvisation. Soon after came Winchester, a scholarship to the Guildhall, and study in Paris under Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal.
From there, a life that has moved between the stage and the stillness of a sound meditation. A founding role in Eurythmics, three decades of recording, film scores with David Lord, a long creative partnership with Michael Hoppe, and a pioneering turn toward therapeutic sound. Through all of it, the same question: what can sound do for a listener?
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