All stage and arena management for the first major international jazz festival to be staged in Singapore featuring Ernie Watts, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni, TheWoody Herman Orchestra, Lee Ritenour, Take 6, Tuck & Patti, Terumasa Hino, Vanessa Rubin, Eldee Young, Jacinta Abisheganaden & Festival Artistic Director Jeremy Monteiro.

Inaugural annual conference event hosted by Morgan Stanley and bringing together 30 key individuals in an event structured to elicit fresh investment ideas within the Asia-Pacific region. Alongside the daily roundtable discussions a programme of evening activities and entertainment were arranged for the delegates including jazz, Thai traditional and beach party theme evenings – complete with costumed elephants - in different locations within the Amanpuri Villa complex. All budgetting - sourcing/spec.ing of artists, equipment and specialised services - event production management and co-ordination in conjunction with Singaporean and Thai production companies.

December 2000  

The restoration and conversion of the historic landmark Fullerton Building to a 400-room grand hotel was commemorated with the official opening of The Fullerton-Singapore by the Prime Minister of Singapore – Mr Goh Chok Tong – at the stroke of midnight on January 1^st 2001. The celebrations featured a wide range of live musical, dance and mask performances by local and international artists - including Olivia Newton-John, Emil Chau & the SSO ensemble - culminating in a New Year countdown featuring a wide range of interior and exterior lighting, audiovisual, pyrotechnic and special fx.

The World premiere production of Hot Water presented two realities, two landscapes, and two scores; one musical, one visual, linked by a multi- media presentation featuring a moving piano, multiple tulle-screens, a custom designed and constructed  black box and a flying horse in an intimate environmental sensation of 360 degrees of music, performance and visual arts. All production management, site co-ordination & advance technical management including co-ordination of sea, air and land freight, transportation, venue and local/governmental authority liaison, site preparation, personnel recruitment, preparation and administration of production budgets.

Stella Kon's classic Singaporean drama EEH was the critically acclaimed inaugural production by Wild Rice, a contemporary Asian theatre company founded by multi-award winning theatre practitioner Ivan Heng and based in Singapore   

Organization, co-ordination and management of front of house operations for the event incl. liaison with National Police & CISCO and co-ord. of local back and front of stage security and pit teams, event stewarding, venue liaison, emergency medical services, crowd control and merchandising.

Situated on the campus of National University of Singapore, the UCC comprises 1800 and 450 seat theatre auditoria, an external amphitheatre and dance studio/rehearsal spaces with the potential to host a wide range of world-class performances in addition to a range of ceremonial activities, including the Convocation ceremonies of the University.

Tour and concert production & stage management, technical co-ordination and promoter representation for national tours and one off concert and festival dates with the following artists : 

 Richard Thompson - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Soweto String Quartet - Ray Charles - Cesaria Evora - Salif Keita -  Zbigniew Preisner - Olodum - Marc Almond - Huun Huur Tu - Paolo Conte - Robben Ford - Femi Kuti - Carlinhos Brown - Oscar D'Leon - Nigel Kennedy - !Cubanisimo! - Herbie Hancock - Ronnie Earl - Compay Segundo - Burning Spear - Altan -  Gilberto Gil - Marisa Monte - Robert Fripp - California EAR Unit - Kronos Quartet - Ron Sexsmith - Andy Sheppard - John Harle - Elvis Costello - Kate & Anna McGarrigle - John Martyn - Beth Orton - Rufus Wainwright - Varttina -  Leningrad Cowboys - Salsa Legends - John Hammond

The live CD & DVD recording The Star & The Wiseman - Ladysmith Black  Mombaza  Live at The Royal Albert Hall was completed during the course of these  tours

Tour and concert production & stage management, technical co-ordination and promoter representation for national tour by one of Japan's leading rock acts.

The live CD & DVD recording  Film Collector and a tour documentary for Japanese TV was completed during the course of this tour

Production & stage management for festival event series featuring Eric Bibb - Taj Mahal -  Big Joe Louis - Kelly Joe Phelps - Varttina - Apocalyptica - Wimme - Maria Kalaniemi - Trio Toykeat - Zot - Sarmanto Trio - Zetaboo - Taraf De Haidouks - The Balenescu Quartet - Loyko - Kevin McAleer - The D'Unbelievables.

Stage management for pre-production , rehearsals & soundchecks for the annual Royal Gala event featuring The Spice Girls - Boyzone - Barry Manilow - STOMP - B*witched - The cast of ‘ANNIE’ - The cast of ‘Oklahoma’- Bryan Adams

Tour and concert production & stage management, technical co-ordination and promoter representation for European tours featuring Steve Swallow, Karen Mantler, Lew Soloff , Paul Haines, Dennis Mackrel , Gary Valente, Andy Sheppard, Wolfgang Puschnig, Guy Barker, Claude Deppa, Jerry Underwood, Baikida Carroll, Steve Waterman, Julian Arguelles, Richard Edwards, John Barclay, Parmela Attariwala, Syd Straw, Phil Minton, Linda Sharrock.        

The live recording Carla Bley Big Band goes to Church was completed during the course of this tour.            

100 date National tour and 65 performance run in London's West End featuring BAFTA award winning comedian & creator of Alan Partridge , Tony Ferrino , Paul & Pauline Calf and Duncan Thickett and co-starring Simon Pegg and Julia Davis.

1998

Production and Stage Management for 35 date arenas tour of Austria & Germany involving 15 production trucks , 110 cast & crew of 17 different nationalities…in - 10ºC !

Production Management and Technical coordination for arena scale tours including budget control, equipment selection and procurement , personnel management and tour logistics for cast , crew and the artistes - 16 of the World famous Lipizzaner Stallions.

1997

The tenth annual festival of Jazz held in Izmir , Turkey featuring:  GeorgeBenson- Dionne Warwick - Michel Petruciani - John Scofield - BobbyMcFerrin.

The fourth annual festival of Jazz held in London, UK featuring Youssou N'Dour - Cheikh Lo - John Scofield - Michael Brecker - Sonny Rollins - John Surman & Karin Krog - Terje Rypdal - Cesaria Evora - Andy Sheppard & the Bergen Big Band - Colin Towns Mask Orchestra - The Creative Jazz Orchestra

 Michael Nyman is a prolific award winning composer for opera, dance, concert, theatre, television, radio and film music, principally  known for his score for the Oscar-winning film The Piano and his long collaboration with the English film maker Peter Greenaway and his film scores for The Draughtsman’s Contract, A Zed and Two Noughts,  Drowning By Numbers , The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover and Prospero’s Books.

The recording Michael Nyman - Live was completed during the course of the European tours of 1994 in collaboration with the Arabo-Andalusian ensemble Orquesta Andalusi de Tetuan and  members of The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra.

Concert production &/or stage management, crew chief and promoter representation for national tours featuring Michael Jackson - Barbra Streisand - Prince & the New Power Generation Act II - John Denver - Shirley Bassey - Tom Jones - Michael Ball - Jackie Mason - Judith Durham & The Seekers - Joe Pasquali - Joe Longthorne - Bradley Walsh - World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

The U.K. leg of the Dangerous World Tour comprised eight stadium/green site concerts - including two shows at Wembley Stadium - and played to an estimated 500,000 people.

Role involved assisting with advance co-ordination and preparation of tour stadium and outdoor sites for arrival of tour concert production comprising layout and markout of site - identification of production and public requirements and implementation of these in tandem with local contractors and local/governmental agencies - specification & organization for the installation of temporary utilities and essential services including power, water  and communications - site access & site security - extensive liaison with local building control & environmental health authorities and emergency services - the provision of local production requirements such as backstage dressing room/office areas, VIP and sponsors facilities, audience seating, tentages, public amenities/concessions, box office facilities, ground transport, freight coordination, catering, waste disposal - supervision of post-event de-rig and restitution of sites.

Production management and technical co-ordination for Royal Charity Gala concert organised by Liza Minnelli in celebration of the career of Sammy Davis Jnr.. and featuring Liza Minnelli - Cliff Richard - Tom Jones - Donald O'Connor - Charles Aznavour - Joan Collins - Jerry Lewis - Lorna Luft - Lionel Blair - Frank Sinatra (via satellite from the USA) and  Her Royal Highness Diana the Princess of Wales with children of the Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital. 

The concert broke records for the highest grossing theatrical event ever held on a single night and raised over £700,000.00 for The Royal Marsden Cancer Appeal and The Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Hospital in New York

Design and co-ordination of the Albert Memorial element of the event, which featured large-scale projection from the roof of the Albert Hall onto the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park and synchronized “Sky-Tracker” units.     

In October 1991, as a highlight of The Japan Festival, The Royal Albert Hall hosted the first ever Sumo Basho to be staged outside of Japan in the 1500 yr existence of the sport. 50 top Rikishi (Sumo) including the two reigning Yokozuna (Champions) – Hokutoumi and Asahifuji - and Akebono, the first westerner to reach the rank of Grand Champion, made the trip to London to compete for the Hitachi Cup and the prestige of winning the first “foreign” Basho. In addition to the five days of competition , which included The Dohyo Matsuri (The Ring Blessing Ceremony) and Full Ceremonial Opening and Closing Ceremonies there were practice bouts, demonstrations and full Dohyo entering ceremonies on each evening.

 Production Management and local coordination of the event included the strengthening of the arena floor, supervision of the construction of the Dohyo (The Ring) from 38tons of specially formulated clay and the rigging of the Yakata (The Roof Canopy). During the competition I was responsible for showcalling the event in conjunction with Japanese production team representatives of the Sumo Kyokai (The Sumo Association) including the great Chiyonifuji (The Wolf), Channel Four and Japanese NHK TV.

All stage management and technical supervision as required by the extensive on-board events programme including theatrical productions, music, cabaret and variety acts, crafts workshops , sports activities , children’s events , quizzes and competitions and theme nights.

The Royal Albert Hall opened in 1871, 20 years before Carnegie Hall in New York, and remains one of the most versatile and prestigious concert halls in the World, playing host to a wide variety of international events as broad ranging as Eric Clapton's 24Nights concert series, The BBC Promenade Concerts and The Institute of Directors Convention. The Show Management department is responsible for the production of shows and events within the Hall including :

Notable productions during the 1991-1992 season included :

In 1990 the Cunard liner Q.E.2 undertook an epic journey calling at ports with long and emotional ties with the great liners including Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, Liverpool, Cherbourg, Fort Lauderdale & New York and completing the fastest east-west crossing of the Atlantic in 105 hours 57 minutes to mark the 150th anniversary of the Cunard Line.

In each location concert performances were staged aboard ship. The journey culminated with a review of the Fleet by Her Majesty The Queen aboard the Q.E.2 off Spithead , Southampton and featuring the Royal Yacht Britannia , frigates representing the navies of the U.K. , Europe and America accompanied by a flypast by aircraft of the R.A.F., R.N., BA, BM Airlines and the Cunard Air fleet.

1990

The Forth Bridge was the greatest engineering feat the Victorian world had ever seen. The first large structure made of steel, it remains to this day one of the great achievements of mankind. In 1990 Scotland celebrated the Centennial of The Forth Bridge with a re-dedication ceremony by the Secretary of State for Scotland and a spectacular fireworks and search light display over the bridge and the simultaneous lighting of 50 bonfires along the coastlines of Lothian and Fife regions and on the islands and promontories of the Forth Estuary timed to coincide with the crossing of the bridge by a vintage steam engine.

All Production Management and Technical Co-ordination for the 7th and 8th Alternative Festivals featuring a wide range of international performances on the streets & in venues around the city featuring Andy Sheppard - The Chieftains - Les Negresses Vertes - Count Basie Orchestra - The Fall - Carla Bley Big Band - Transvision Vamp - New Model Army - Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers - Stefan Grappelli - John Otway - Jo Brand - Simon Fanshawe - The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra.

All Production Management and Technical Co-ordination for Glasgow’s annual international street festival and "Christmas in the Square", a series of festive events staged in George Square, Glasgow including a laser show , open-air ice rink , massed carol concert , musical and theatrical events and featuring Les Macadam Phenomenes(France) -    Oli (Germany) - Archaos (France) - Los Muniquitos de Matanzas(Cuba) - The Prahalad Natak Project (India) - Les Applicateurs (France)

The Glasgow Garden Festival was the U.K.’s largest consumer event of 1988, attracting over 4 million visitors - 20 000 + per day - and featuring a total of 7,000 amateur and professional events during the 6 month period of it's operation.

 As one of 6 technical managers responsible for the daily management of the events programme staged around the 100acre site each day, responsibilities included the supervision and deployment of 30 technical/stage staff, revision of the daily events schedules, co-ordination of all rigging, sound , lighting, av and staging requirements and operations, technical representation at daily management / operations meetings and acting as relief technical director as required.

 Special responsibility for the technical management of all VIP and Protocol visits and events on site. Among those who visited the festival  were HRH Prince and Princess of Wales, The Prime Minister - Mrs Margaret Thatcher , The Secretary of State for Scotland and the Ambassadors to the U.K. from Israel , U.S.S.R. , China , Korea , Hong Kong , France , Germany and New Zealand.

EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE, EDINBURGH, UK

1983

Assembly Productions (Edinburgh)

Technical Production staff