Updates on achievements in Music and Sound Recording
Monday 5 November 2012
Music
- Clive Williamson organised and ran the British Contemporary Piano Competition and was invited to teach and perform at Dartington International Summer School (one of the top international music programmes)
- Steve Goss has received a commission for a new Piano Concerto and the acclaimed guitarist, John Williams is performing Steve's Guitar Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra.
- A recent graduate (2009) Finlay Dow-Smith (now called Starsmith) has had number 1 songs with Kylie Minogue and Cheryl Cole. For more info
Sound Recording
- Liz Ng: current national fencing champion
- Joe Yon: was mixing a range of current affairs programmes live on BBC radio 4 whilst still a student
- Iain Campbell: was signed to Island records during the course
- Scott Barnett, graduated this year, has worked on projects for Peter Gabriel, Beyoncé, Jeff Beck, John Leckie, Bernard Sumner, Hot Chip.
- Four Tonmeister graduates and two current students have been involved in the preparation for Peter Gabriel's "So - Back to Front tour. http://petergabriel.com/livedates/
- Graduates Pete Sene and Mark Claydon helped with preparation along with Placement students Nguyen Green and Olli Jacobs.
- Graduates Dan Lavi and Scott Barnett are helping out on the tour as keyboard tech and drum tech.
- Peter Gabriel has employed a Tonmeister placement student in his personal writing room at Real World Studios for 10 years.

