Forgive me if I don't list a lot of useful piano related websites. If you really want to find such material on the internet, I suggest you start at the excellent and fast growing links service at www.musicteachers.co.uk.

Instead I am going to list those sites that relate to my background - a sort of internet biography if you like.



My Life in Webpages
Manchester Grammar School - I loved my time at this great school. I was taught by some of the most inspiring and multifaceted men I have ever met.
Timperley Parish Church -Down the road from my family home, the church where music began for me thanks to a great choirmaster called Duncan Budden. He was a talented charismatic leader and turned a small parish choir into a 40+ touring ensemble in under 18 months. He taught me to sing, read music and gave me a life-long enthusiasm for choirs, organs and the solo voice. If it hadn't been for him, I wouldn't be much of a musician now.
York Minster - My first experiences as a musician were as a chorister. I inevitably gravitated towards the organ, the king of instruments. I first performed at York Minster when I was sixteen. It is a breathtaking English instrument in a building of dumbfounding beauty.
Pembroke College, Oxford - Sleepness nights writing essays, hangovers, hectic concerts, amazing people, months on end in the library and the influence of a couple of utterly brilliant dons made my time at university splendid and unforgettable.
Lycée Molière, Paris - I taught here for a year as part of my Modern Languages course. Paris has to be one of the most rewarding places on earth.
The Royal Northern College of Music - Marjorie Clementi (a keyboard teacher of sheer genius) worked with me for two years before I entered the RNCM as a postgrad. There I found it to be an inexhaustible source of challenges, inspiration and opportunity. Undoubtedly one of the world's great conservatoires.
Phoenix Artists Management - I established this classical artists agency with my gifted friend, Allan Beavis. Together we manage a portfolio of about 25 international operatic and concert artists worldwide. Hard, stressful work with amazing hidden rewards.