Associate Conductor
During eight years at Chetham's School of Music (including two as Head of Composition) and almost fifteen as Director of Music at the University of Warwick, Colin has a distinguished record of conducting, composing for, and encouraging young musicians in orchestras, bands and choirs. With the University of Warwick Chamber Choir he gained gold or silver awards at almost every international festival entered, also reaching the televised semi-finals of Sainsbury's Choir of the Year in 2000; they performed Mozart Requiem and Vivaldi Gloria with Matthias Bamert and the London Mozart Players.
With wind ensembles from the University of Warwick, Colin commissioned new works and gained many awards in the National Concert Band Festival, including Gold at the Open Class Final in 2002; it is believed this award and the Choir's competition record are unique for any British university. He has founded several ensembles, including Midlands Wind Orchestra (now Warwick Orchestral Winds), the British Universities Honours Band, and the National Youth Recorder Orchestra, and has conducted the National Youth Wind Orchestras of both Britain and Luxembourg.
He is a regular conductor of Essex Chamber Orchestra, and for 9 years conducted at the Dartington International Summer School. His compositions have been broadcast on national and local radio and television, and he is increasingly in demand to write to commission, and to lead workshops in conducting, clarinet, recorder, teaching and adjudication.