Biography

 

Brian started his professional musical career in 1992 and he is a performer, composer and educator.

 

Brian has played on TV, live in the UK, Europe and London's West End, backing many well know artists such as: George Benson, The Drifters, The Platters, Cliff Richard, Gerard Kenny, Marti Caine, Bradley Walsh to name a few.  Brian's TV credits include the BBC'S Generation Game and Record Breakers and SKY TV's Who Do You Do?

 

As a freelance player, versatility is a key and Brian is highly experienced in moving between different types of musical styles. Recently Brian has been playing with great British Jazz Artists such as Alan Barnes, Art Themen, Fleur Stevenson and Tina May.

 

Composition has always been of interest to Brian and he has written library music for EMI Music House. Brian also wrote songs for a solo band project Mind In Colour 

 

As an educationalist, Brian is a former University Lecturer at University of West London, teaching on the degree in popular music performance and was a course deliverer and writer. He moved on to be the founder of Gigajam and won the British Education Teaching with Technology Award in 2005 for the Essential Skills Courses for guitar, bass, keyboards and drums.

 

The Gigajam courses are award winning andnow delivered through an  Online Music School

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Currently, Brian's career mixes running Gigajam, drum teaching and live performance & recording. He is a permanent member of International Recording Rock Band Space Elevator.  You will often find Brian as part of the house trio at The Pangbourne Jazz Club which he runs and he plays with a number of Big Band's including BBO Big Band,  Remix Jazz Orchestra and The Stellar Big Band .

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2021 saw Brian develop Gigajam Drum Studio, which is a Remote Live Drum Recording studio for Bands, Artists and Commercial Music Makers. The studio and Brian's recording are available for hire and he has records for a wide variety of music prodducers and projects. Brian has recently recorded for: Library Music writer Max Milligan, Brother Strut and Temptations guitarist and composer Otha Smith, legendary grammy award winning songwriter Russ Ballard and commercial music prodution company Noisehook.

 

Videos of Brian recording our available on the Gigajam Drum Studio page.