Well, seeing as how you're curious....
Both my parents were musical - my mother taught me the penny whistle (still my first instrument....) and harmonica as a young child. I went through the usual school route of recorder, dull music lessons etc., but survived well, studying oboe and percussion. During my school years I was principal percussionist for a number of orchestras - something I would have continued professionally had I not been persuaded that I needed a 'proper' degree.
After an abortive attempt at a maths degree (but a hell of a social life) I started writing music for computer games - something I'm still famous for among a very small hard-core male 25yr old fraternity (mainly Scandinavian for some reason - I never sussed why). I worked for a number of years as a freelance, then for Gremlin as their in-house composer before tweety little sound-chips drove me mad around 1989. By that time I had met Sarah, a theatre director, and started working with her writing music for plays. This now consists the majority of my composing work, both producing soundtracks and musical direction, working with actors / musicians.
In addition to my composition, I play (flute, whistles, guitar, percussion, vocals etc.) with a couple of folky/rocky type groups, Loscoe State Opera and Tomorrows Ancestor
(links coming!) and also with 'Ensemble VIII', an improvisatory group which is starting to get rather big in the business....
