Steve is a highly experienced professional musician. Performing mostly on trumpet and flugel horn, he works in a wide variety of genres, most notably jazz and commercial music.

As a freelance session player, he has performed with artists as diverse as the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and R&B star Kele Le Roc as well as commercial session work for TV and radio. He also performs regularly with several London-based soul/pop function bands (including backing vocals) as well as depping for West End and touring theatre shows.

Steve has also spent a great deal of time performing as an actor-musician.

From November 2007 – January 2008 he appeared as an actor-musician in Tale of the Beauty and the Beast at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough. As well as singing and playing a disgruntled musician, Steve co-arranged all of the music alongside MD Stephen Brown. With more or less open access to the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical instrument store, Steve ended up playing an amazing range of weird and wonderful instruments during the show, including cornetto (medieval trumpet), cornet, french horn, glockenspiel, percussion, tabla, euphonium and - perhaps best of all - sousaphone!

A hi-res photo of Steve in action can be seen by clicking the image below.

In 2007 he wrote and performed in The Big Filling: This Time it’s Pie-sonal at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Underbelly), for which he also wrote the music (see Production/Writing). This show attracted outstanding reviews, with The Scotsman describing his film-noir style score as ‘toe-tapping'.

In 2006 he toured for 11 months with the Bill Kenwright musical This Is Elvis playing number 1 venues across the UK and Ireland to crowds of up to 3000 per night. As well as playing on-stage trumpet and solo flugel horn throughout, Steve also acted in the show, understudied one of the lead actors and sang backing vocals for many of the songs.

With his own jazz group the Pretty Small Band he has worked extensively in London (including a residency at Soho’s famous Madame JoJo’s cabaret bar) and across the UK as well as touring Italy, France, Spain and Canada.

Steve also sings (strong tenor) and plays a number of other instruments, notably tabla, which he studied under Pandit Subhash Nirwan in New Delhi.

Here are some photos of Steve for use in publicity or promotion. See also his Acting page for plain headshots.