Fiction
OMs involved in Creative Industries
Illustration
Artist
Non
Graphic Design
Television & Film Theatre
Musician Author
Instrumentalist
Photography
ARTISTS Art
Gareth Adeney (78) is Director of Foundation Art Academy, Drapanos, Crete. The Academy runs courses designed for either undergraduate art students, potential Foundation Course art students and gap-year students. It also allows members of the business community/ executives (perhaps on sabbatical) seeking the opportunity to create artwork/unlock artistic potential under guidance and direction. In 2012 Gareth published a novel called ‘In Search of Sara Ann’. www.foundationartacademydrapanos.com
Illustration
Alice Allum (09) graduated from the London College of Fashion with a first in Fashion Illustration. She likes to combine and use different mediums within her work, which makes for a fairly varied outcome, but there are key themes that run throughout most of her projects. Tactile/Linear/Soft/Nostalgic. http://cargocollective.com/aliceallumillustration
Painting
Karl Backhurst (86) has run his own gallery since 2001 and being surrounded by art everyday, both at home and at work, he found a keen enthusiasm and desire to paint for himself which he has found very rewarding. His inspiration comes from family holidays, stunning landscapes that he has experienced and artists that he admires, such as JMW Turner, and more currently, Robert Kelsey, James Fullarton, Brian Seymour and Darryl Nantais. http://cargocollective.com/aliceallumillustration
Art
Rachel Duncombe-Anderson (91) is co-founder of Epic Arts, a charity which uses art to provide inclusion and social integration of disabled children and adults. The charity aims to increase access to the arts and art education, to enable participants to develop new skills, to encourage self-expression and the growth of self-confidence and to foster understanding and integration. www.epicarts.org.uk
Painting
James Allan Hawkins (72) is an English painter and filmmaker associated with Scottish Highland landscape. He lives, works and exhibits at his open studio RhueArt in Rhue, three miles North of Ullapool. www.jameshawkinsart.co.uk
Art
Alex Hirtzel née Musker (85) is a multi-disciplined artist. She works with traditional materials as well as plaster, wood, gold, clay, paper, wax and resin, exploring new mediums at every opportunity. Alex is drawn to ancient landscapes where the recurring themes of myths and stories lie in layers, waiting for the visual archaeologist to play with memory and symbolism. www.alexhirtzel.com/
Art
Lydia Ourahmane (10) is an Algerian artist with a focus on Northern Africa, Migration, Political, Installation, Performance Art, Trauma and Struggle, Surveillance, Film/Video, Research as Art Culture, Art and Technology. http://ellisking.net/lydia-ourahmane/
Painting
William Taylar (88) was born in Hampshire, England in 1970, In 2005 he moved to Berlin to concentrate exclusively on making the work for his first solo exhibition. Previously he had juggled painting with full-time employment as a Motion Graphics Designer. He graduated with a MA from Winchester School of Art in 1996, preceded by a Visual Arts Degree at Lancaster University. In recent years he has shown in three group shows at the Rocket Gallery including Compilation 2 in 2006. In 2005 his work was selected by curator Hesse McGraw for the exhibition Rocket Exchange at Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
ARTISTS Letter carving
Caroline Webb (80) has been designing and carving inscriptions since graduating with a degree in Typography 30 years ago. Her work reflects her particular delight in quiet detail and her historical understanding of letterforms, her respect for letters and words, and a love of literature and landscape. Caroline is one of the few letter carvers specialising in carving fine lettering in wood for both small intimate pieces and larger scale projects. For many years she collaborated with Ian Hamilton Finlay contributing numerous works to exhibitions and collections. She lives and works in Wiltshire and is an elected member of the Art Workers Guild and Letter Exchange. www.carolinewebblettering.com
ART
Nick Wood (08) is an artist working in Oxford, UK. Nick graduated from Falmouth in 2011 with a degree un Fine Art. His multidisciplinary practice explored the consequences of human endeavour and personal relationships. After finishing his degree, he set up an artsbased publication called Conjunction. Conjunction aims to bring artists and writers together to form new contexts and unexpected contrasts within their work. Recently he has set up The Well Met Press with his partner. The press acts as a creative platform for their personal projects as well as creating book and printed matter for other artists. www.nickwoodworking.co.uk/
AUTHORS Non-fiction
David Adeney (59) missionary and university evangelist in China and East Asia. Author of ‘The Unchanging Commission’ and ‘China, the Church’s Long March’.
Non-fiction
Michael Akehurst (58) is the author of Modern Introduction to International Law which remains the most widely used student text in the field. Seven editions have been published. It has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese and it was updated after his death by Peter Malanczuk under the title Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law.
Poetry
Rebecca Brewin (90) poet, 2014 Frome Festival Poet Laureate blog. Works with poetry and reflections from her life with yoga and the body. Rebecca also works to enable diverse communities to engage more creatively and meaningfully with their local environment. www.hantoearth.net
Non–fiction
David Bookless (79) is Director of Theology for ‘A Rocha International’ and author of a number of books on the environment. www.arocha.org/en
Non–fiction
Alfred James Broomhall (29) was a British Protestant Christian medical missionary to China, and author and historian of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International in 1964). He wrote the most comprehensive and reliable biography of CIM’s founder Hudson Taylor.
Fiction & Non -fiction
Bernard Cornwell OBE (61) is a best-selling historical novelist who now lives in the USA. He is best known for his series of books about the Napoleonic Wars called Sharpe which was also adapted for television starring Sean Bean. In 2015 both his latest novel Warriors of the Storm and his first non-fiction title Waterloo featured in the Sunday Times Bestsellers of the Year list. www.bernardcornwell.net
Non-fiction
Luke Dormehl (03) Luke Dormel is a journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film. He writes and has written for Fast Company, Wired, The Observer, Empire, SFX, The Sunday Times, Politico and Cult of Mac. www.lukedormehl.com
Non-fiction
Dudley Green (54) Author of Patrick Brontë, Because It’s There, Discovering Hadrian’s Wall and Mallory of Everest.
Fiction
Ray Coryton Hutchinson (24) was a best-selling British novelist. His 1975 novel Rising was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His first novel, Thou Hast a Devil, published in 1930 was followed by The Answering Glory (1932), in which Monkton, heavily disguised as a girls’ school is the setting. The Unforgotten Prisoner (1933) sold 150,000 copies in the first month. He won the Sunday Times Gold Medal for fiction in 1938 with Testament, a magisterial and monumental work on the Russian Revolution. In 1964 he won the WH Smith Literary Award for A Child Possessed. Subsequent novels also sold very well. In school he had written The Hand of the Purple Idol and dedicated The Fire and the Wood to his Monkton friend, MH Churchill. His published work comprises 17 novels and 28 short stories, as well as one play, Last Train South (1938). In 1961 he wrote the foreword to a charming, slim volume of Monktonian poetry called The Valley.
Non-fiction
Keith Lamdin (64) author of Finding Your Leadership Style.
Non-fiction
Gordon Lowe (64) is a true crime writer, his first book Escape from Broadmoor chronicles the trials and strangulations of John Thomas Straffen and his second book The Acid Bath Murders tells the true story of serial killer John Haigh who, after committing five perfect murders to fund his luxury lifestyle, became careless with the sixth victim. A third book on Donald Neilson, The Black Panther, is coming out during 2016. www.gordonloweauthor.co.uk
AUTHORS Poetry, Fiction & Playwriting
Adrian Mitchell FRSL (Old Junior 44) was a poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the UK’s anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him The British Mayakovsky. In a National Poetry Day poll in 2005 his poem Human Beings was voted the one most people would like to see launched into space. In 2002 he was nominated, semiseriously, “Britain's Shadow” Poet Laureate. He was poetry editor of the New Statesman, and was the first to publish an interview with the Beatles. His work for the Royal Shakespeare Company included Peter Brook's US and the English version of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade. His often angry output swirled from anarchistic antiwar satire, through love poetry to, increasingly, stories and poems for children. He also wrote librettos. The Poetry Archive identified his creative yield as hugely prolific. His work was often read and sung at demonstrations and rallies.
Non-fiction
Norman Parker (53) author of The nature of Genesis and the Genesis of Nature.
Non-fiction
Howard Peskett (56) author of several books including The Message of Mission and three on the Book of Isaiah. www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/author.pl/author_id=109
Fiction
Christy Powell (91) published her first novel in 2011 News From The Nail Bar. Her next venture is a digital chronicle Just a bit Confucius, a hilarious weekly insight into the intricacies of expatriate life in Hong Kong. www.christy-powell.com
Non-fiction
Roger Sharland (71) Founder & Director of REAP (Rural Extension with Africa’s Poor) Author of a number of books relating to this area. www.reapinternational.com
Non-fiction
Andrew Charles Petter Sims (57), MA. MD. FRCPsych. FRCP PR. Consultant Psychiatrist, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University Of Leeds, Past President, Royal College of Psychiatrists, and author of Is Faith Delusion? & Why Religion Is Good For Your Health.
Non-fiction
Merlin Waterson CBE, FSA (65) Merlin Waterson is an architectural historian and author of books on social history, conservation and philanthropy. He was educated at King’s College Cambridge, where he read the History of Art. He joined the staff of the National Trust in 1970 and was Regional Director, East Anglia from 1981 to 2002; and Director of Historic Properties from 2002 to 2004. In 1996 to 1997 he was seconded to the Heritage Lottery Fund, to be Policy Adviser on Built Heritage and Historic Properties. Currently he is a Commissioner, and Deputy Chairman, of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
Non-fiction
Justyn Rees (62) author of cookery books.
Non-fiction
Wilfred Shewell-Cooper (18) organic gardener and famous writer on horticultural topics.
Fiction
Patricia St John (OC) Protestant missionary nurse in Morocco and house mother at Clarendon school during which time she wrote Treasures of the Snow and Tanglewood's Secret. Her later novels Star of Light and Secret of the Fourth Candle were based on her experiences in Tangiers.
AUTHORS Poetry
Anthony Wilson (82) Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter's Graduate School of Education, where he trains Primary PGCE students and lectures in literacy and creativity. For more than twenty years he has also worked as a poet and creative writing tutor, visiting schools, prisons and writing centres. Anthony has held writing residencies at The Poetry Society, The Times Educational Supplement, Apples and Snakes, Tate Britain, and The Poetry Trust, for whom he was the 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blogger. His books of poetry are Riddance (Worple Press, 2012), Full Stretch: Poems 1996 - 2006 (Worple Press, 2006), Nowhere Better Than This (Worple Press, 2002) and How Far From Here is Home? (Stride, 1996). His prose memoir of cancer, Love for Now (Impress Books), was published in 2012. In June 2015 Bloodaxe Books published Lifesaving Poems, based on his blog of the same name, in which he pays his debt of gratitude to the outstanding English teachers he met during his time at Monkton. A researcher in the field of poetry in education, he is co-editor of Making Poetry Matter (Bloomsbury, 2013), Making Poetry Happen (Bloomsbury, 2015), and The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (Poetry Society, 1998).
CREATIVE AGENCIES & DESIGNERS Technology Entertainment Design
Christopher John Anderson (74) was formerly a newspaper and magazine journalist. As an entrepreneur, he founded ‘Future Publishing’ (in a garage), devoted initially to hobbyist computer magazines. He was Chief Executive from 1985, publishing over 30 titles, until 1994 when it was floated on the Stock Exchange. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area of the USA in 1993 and continued to launch magazines including Business 2.0. Future grew to more than 130 magazines and more than 1,500 employees. He is the curator of TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), which hosts conferences in North America and Europe and an open-access website where TED talks can be viewed by the public. In 2001, Anderson left Future and, through his non-profit foundation, acquired TED. The mission of TED shifted to "ideas worth spreading” by making hundreds of talks available free online. By 2012, TED Talks had been watched one billion times worldwide, reflecting a still growing global audience. www.ted.com
Creative Design & Film Studio
Charles Bennett (99) currently works as a Matte Painter at Glowfrog Studios in London, a creative design and film studio specialising in the production of high-end imagery for clients in broadcast, film and architecture. With over 8 years of Film and TV experience, Charlie has created Matte Paintings for many films including: The Martian, Terminator Genysis, Guardians of the Galaxy and Gravity, which won a BAFTA and Oscar, Robocop, 47 Ronin and Wrath of the Titans, as well as many TV show episodes of Doctor Who and Merlin. www.charliebennett.org.uk
Furniture Design
Richard Bullock (87) after Monkton he did an art foundation course and then a degree in 3D design at Middlesex Poly followed by four years in industry. Richard then set up his own cabinet making and joinery company Barn6. www.barn6.co.uk
Photography& Graphic Design
Sebastian Gowar-Cliffe (71) Photographer, Graphic Designer and product/industrial designer, latterly in the marine industry as a designer of advanced small powerboats.
Graphic recording & Illustration
Ralph Mann (98) is an artist and illustrator, his company Purple Heron Communication specialises in live event graphic recording and creating rich pictures supporting communication of vision or transformational change. Founded charity Prodigal Arts which works with men in prison creating art which the charity then sells. www.purpleheron.co.uk www.prodigalarts.org
Creative Agency
Jack Horner (Marcus Philip 92) founder and executive creative director at FRUKT - some say the world’s leading creative agency in the music and entertainment worlds. Clients include Coke, Mastercard, Sprint, American Airlines, Jagermeister, Nike, Google and a bunch of others. In short, much of what they do to engage through music and film with their audiences - FRUKT create and produce for them. It’s entire programmes of content, rights, talent, digital platforms, live experience and activation and films. He has also personally worked with the British Council on mentoring creative entrepreneur programmes - trade missions to China and the US. He is on the board of a smattering of companies and invests in creative sector and tech start-ups. www.wearefrukt.com
Creative Agency
Mark Howard (80) Ethos Director at fst Marketing. Mark set up fst an integrated creative agency, 11 years after leaving Monkton which now provides creative marketing solutions for 42 clients across 27 countries around the world. They have an in house team of over 50 artists, designers and photographers. www.ethosmarketing.co.uk
CREATIVE AGENCIES & DESIGNERS Designer
Antony McDonald (68) Royal Designer for Industry. Part of British Team of Designers who won the Golden Triga at the 2003 Prague Quadrenale for Un Ballo in Maschera Bregenz Festival and in 1991 for the 1989 Royal Shakespeare Production of Hamlet.
Designer
Peter Vickers (06) designer working for ‘A dozen Eggs’ a design, web & branding agency based in Loughborough. www.adozeneggs.co.uk
Model Maker
Roger Wotton (68) works as an engineer for Asylum a high-end model making and special effects for film, TV, installations, prototyping and visual merchandising company with clients from all around the world. http://asylumsfx.com
Designer
Florence Wood (10) graduated from the University of Brighton in 2014 in Graphic Design. She works for Birch and also does freelance work. Florence likes to make work that matters. Whether the subject intends to change the world, or just to put a smile on a person’s face, then it matters.
FILM, TV & THEATRE Actor
Stefan Booth (96) is an English actor and singer, best known for playing Greg Jessop in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from October 2010 to August 2011. He recently finished a tour de force of the UK and Europe with the hit musical Chicago playing the crooning undefeated lawyer ‘Billy Flinn’ and is about to start filming for a new movie called ‘Meet Pursuit Delange’ directed by Howard Webster.
Television
Rosy Berry née Thomas (92) is a London based production designer currently working in commercials, television, film and music videos. She also has experience in stills photography and events. In her 16 year career she has collaborated with many extraordinary talents and directors across these mediums such as Edgar Wright, Richard Ayoade, Michael Cumming, Justin Theroux (for HBO), Dominic Savage, Albert, Tim Kirkby (the award winning "Look Around You"), Becky Martin (for HBO), Phil Bowker, Nick Jones, Stephen Pipe, Ben Tonge, Jon Drever, James Lees, Owen Trevor, Vaughan Arnell, Ric Cantor and Jim Weedon. Notable recent works include "Toast of London" Series 1 (2013) and Series 2 (2014), Bafta nominated and awarded a Rose D'Or and a British Comedy Award. Series 3 has been commissioned and will broadcast this Autumn.
Television
Mark Browning (91) is Managing Director of ITN Productions, one of the UK’s biggest production companies, working across Television, Digital, Commercials, Branded Content and Sports production. Since joining ITN in January 2009 Mark has diversified ITN’s Production capability, tripling the division’s turnover in the last 4 years. New ventures include TV Commercial Production including producing the UK’s most popular TV ad for two years in a row, Digital Sport’s Production of the EPL, SPFL, England Cricket, and Premiership Rugby, Branded Content as well as building a post-production division and US business.
Film
Colin Burrows (77) is a consultant to the film industry and owns a small production company ‘Special Treats Productions’ which provides broadcast programming, EPK, event coverage, corporate video production and media training services. http://specialtreats.co.uk
Film
James Edward Cary (93) is a television and radio writer. He is the creator and writer of Radio 4's Sony Radio Academy Awards Silver Award-winning comedy series, Think the Unthinkable (4 series) and lead writer on the sketch show, Concrete Cow. He co-created and co-wrote the acclaimed BBC Three series Bluestone 42. He has also written for My Hero, My Family and co-written two radio series with comedian Milton Jones, as well as contributing to a number of sketch shows and children's and animation programmes. His radio comedy series Hut 33 about Bletchley Park boffins, has run for three series. He has contributed to some episodes of Miranda and the TV version of the comedy show Miranda Hart's Joke Shop which was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award. In 2013 he published his first book, Death by Civilisation.
Film
Richard Ducker (87) is a special Effects specialist in San Francisco. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0239890
Film
Ruth Ducker (83) is a freelance Animation Film Director and artist. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1858453
Television
Giles Foster (66) has been an English television director since 1975. He specialises in television drama. He has also directed in Australia and more recently in Germany. As well as directing he is a writer and Bafta award winner. www.gilesfoster.com
FILM, TV & THEATRE Film
Ben Hodgson (77) is a Director of Photography / Cameraman. He filmed The Gospel of John for BBC2 in 2015. He has spent his life looking through a lens and he loves it. After graduating with a degree in film he worked in production with Acacia Films before moving into cameras (with Crow Films) until 1990, when as a cameraman he went freelance. The experience he gained over twenty five years behind the lens lets him shoot by reflex when under pressure and in a style both sympathetic to the subject and sensitive to the film’s approach. There aren't many situations where he can't apply his filming history to help come up with a creative solution. https://vimeo/chanels/630495 www.thetalentmanager.co.uk/talent/21628/ben-hodgson-dop www.youtube.com/user/benhodgson http://creativespace.cci.port.ac.uk/2015/12/07/ students-win-pitch-to-make-behind-the-scenes-for-major-american-broadcaster/
Theatre & Events
Zsuzsi Kingsnorth (99) née Lindsay has been managing events and projects for 12 years, Zsuzsi specialises in producing theatre and community events for her own company Zuloo Productions, and has been involved in festivals in the UK, USA and China. She is also the founder of the Reading Fringe Festival.
Film
John Pakenham (68) Studied Theatre Design in Nottingham and after a few years working in repertory theatres around the country moved to the London Coliseum with English National Opera as a prop maker for two years. After then working freelance in London as a Scenic Artist he moved into Special Effects in the Film Industry for 18 years, working on a variety of movies including ‘Alien’, ‘Empire Strikes Back’, ‘Santa Claus the Movie’, ‘Dragon Slayer’, ‘Krull’ etc and several hundred TV commercials. He retired to Devon and retrained as a Garden Designer, achieving a distinction in a post-graduate Diploma, and then an MA with merit. Now, living in south-west France, he is writing a book about his lengthy walks with tribesmen in NW Kenya in the early 1980s. He has further writing ambitions.
Film
Joe Parsons (90) is a film editor.
http://joeparsons.co.uk
Television
Ash Potterton (93) is an executive producer in factual television and oversees shows for most of the main channels. His background for about 7 years was in development, helping create programmes like The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), One Born Every Minute (C4) and The Plane Crash (C4).
Television
Seyi Rhodes (96) is a British television presenter and investigative journalist of Nigerian descent. He has worked for the BBC, Channel 4 Television, Five Television and Current TV. From 2008, he has been the in-vision presenter and reporter for Channel 4's Unreported World documentary series, produced by Quicksilver Media. In 2003, he joined The Wright Stuff talk show on Channel Five Television, taking over as presenter of “Man with the Mic". He has presented BBC Two's Explore series and reported for ITN's More 4 News. He has also done camera work for Channel 4 Television's documentary series Dispatches, and on the long-running BBC One series Panorama. He has also worked on domestic and international stories for Current TV.
Television
Sir Richard Stilgoe OBE (60) is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He made his name on the BBC television programme, Nationwide, followed by Esther Rantzen's That's Life!, for which he wrote comic songs satirising minor domestic misfortunes. His ability to write a song from almost any source material and at speed was part of his cabaret act. He has also written and presented BBC Radio 4 programmes and has appeared over 200 times on the daytime TV quiz show, Countdown. Stilgoe also hosted quiz shows, including The Year in Question on Radio 4, Finders Keepers (1981–1985), and Scoop (1981–1982). He wrote lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express and collaborated on the lyrics in The Phantom of the Opera. He has appeared on the Royal Variety Performance and presented the Schools Proms for over 20 years, and has toured solo and with Peter Skellern. www.RichardStilgoe.com
FILM, TV & THEATRE Television
John Nigel Barton Sinclair CBE (66) is a producer of Hollywood films. Sinclair founded his own law firm, Sinclair Tennenbaum & Co., in Los Angeles. He practised entertainment law until 1996 and founded Intermedia with Guy East. Prior to launching White Horse Pictures, Sinclair was the CEO and Co-Chairman of Exclusive Media, a global independent film company that financed, produced and distributed feature films and documentaries. Intermedia Films which Sinclair and Guy East founded in 1996 grew to become one of the world's leading independent film companies. In 2002, Sinclair and East then founded Spitfire Pictures, which was merged with Hammer to form Exclusive Media in 2008.
Drama
Robbie Swales (66) Director of Steps - Drama Learning and Development. Bespoke learning courses for businesses from a team who are not only brilliant actors, they are highly skilled facilitators. It’s about using drama as a springboard for discussion and debate, bringing behaviours, models and theories to life. www.stepsdrama.com
Film
Jeremy Thornton (61) produces promotional films for Christian missions.
Film/TV/ Radio & Theatre
Murray Watts (70) is a freelance playwright, screenplay writer, director and author and Co-founder of the pioneer Christian drama group, Riding Lights Theatre company. The plays he has written and directed for TV, radio, film and theatre have won awards and received critical acclaim; for example ‘The Kiss’, ‘Mr Darwin’s Tree’, ‘First Light’ and the screenplay for both ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Miracle Worker’. His company, Wayfarer Productions has featured at the Edinburgh Playhouse and the King’s Head Theatre, London. He is a past winner of the LWT Plays on Stage Award, the prestigious Templeton Award in 1992, and was awarded an Emmy in 1997. He is founder of the Wayfarer Trust based at Freswick Castle in Caithness, Scotland. www.murraywatts.co.uk
Actress
Nicola Wren 07) is an actress. She wrote and starred in her own play 501 Things I Do In My Bedroom at Camden’s Etcetera Theatre and made a TV debut in 2015 in A Song for Jenny.
MUSIC Classical Music
Thomas Bell (80) is a self-employed musician, teacher, organist and composer in Toronto, Canada, organist & conductor at St Simon The Apostle, composer & conductor Mississauga Children's Choir.
Classical Music
Jordon Black (11) Jordan Black is a London-based clarinettist, who enjoys a varied schedule of solo, chamber and orchestral engagements. After spending his early childhood in Kenya, he trained at the Purcell School and the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music, where he won several prizes including the Peter Morrison Concerto Competition. He then went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music graduating with a First Class Honours Degree. Jordan frequently works as a freelance player in orchestras and ensembles across the UK. Away from concert performance, outreach and teaching projects form an important part of Jordan’s musical philosophy. He has given workshops in schools, mentored young composers and taught on the Nation Youth Orchestra of Kenya Residential Scheme. www.jordanblack.co.uk
Rock Music/ Writer
Julian Colbeck (70) is a keyboard player and singer in rock groups. After a 25 year career as a professional musician, playing in bands (having the odd hit in USA), and working as a session player / sideman (with Yes, Alan Parsons, Steve Hackett and others), he hung up his touring boots after a 'Genesis Revisited' tour in Japan in 1996. He also enjoyed a simultaneous career as a writer - for numerous music technology publications, and as an author of a dozen books on music-related subjects, including a biography of Frank Zappa. In 1993 he started a company called Keyfax, initially to market some music software. Keyfax NewMedia has now grown into a company employing 15 people in Santa Cruz, California, producing various digital media content.
Choral Music
David Collard (77) was Music Director for Lisa Stansfield and toured with Elton John, Semi retired.
Choral Music
Richard Cook (94) Director of Choral Music Tiffin School 74-8, Conductor London Philharmonic Choir 82-92, Canterbury Choral Society 84, University of Essex Choir 81, Freelance Conducting, especially in Sweden & Denmark, Chorus Master Opera de Lyon 9295. Music Dir Royal Choral Society 95.
Composer & Conductor
Russell Du Plessis (93) Director of Music at Fulham Prep school. In November 2006 his school choir became BBC Radio 3 Children's Choir of the year at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. His composition INCALCANDO was performed at the Bath International Festival in 2004, and again on Classic FM's Sunday Live last October. He is now pursuing a career as a composer and conductor.
Organist
Andrew Keegan Mackriell (77) Associate Organist at St Paul's Cathedral in London Ontario, Canada.
Singer & Composer
Howard Milner (71) freelance professional singer, voice teacher & writer Singer with "Swingle Singers" 77-79 Group Vocal de France, Paris 79-81 Debut, Glyndebourne Principal 86 Debut Scottish Opera - Principal 87 Debut, English National Opera - Principal 88 Debut, Covent Garden - Principal 90 Regular member of Opera Factory 90 - Singing teacher Royal Academy of Music, London 96.
MUSIC Choral Music
Rupert Packard (96) was with the band Vision and then set up as a solo artist releasing his first single 'Gone Too Far' in 2012.
Worship Music
John Powell (69) Director, Bolton Chamber Choir 86 - 2001, Musical Director, Tatton Singers 2005- Musical Director, Bolton Festival Choir & Orchestra 2006.
Singer
David Preston (69) resigned from his job as a consultant gastroenterologist to concentrate on music. Following the School reunion concert at the Royal College of Music in 2011 he started to ‘hear’ music and has since composed hundreds of worship songs, hymns, children's songs and liturgical pieces.
Folk Music
Eleanor Williams (06) had her debut single with Chasing Rainbows released with her brother Henry's band HiFlyer a band which they started whilst she was at Monkton; followed by an album Passport to Strangers.
Folk Music
Tessa Bickers (00) is a singer / songwriter and her band is called Tess and the Tellers. They are an ever expanding folk band who have gigged across the country, performed at Glastonbury Festival and supported the Inspiral Carpets and Judy Tsuke. Harry Bird (98) & Jamie Bird (OJ 88) form the travelling folk Band Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies, Hot Drop Records.
PHOTOGRAPHY Photography
Andrew Bramah (81) Photographer
Photography
Helen Booker nĂŠe Beeby (90) Photographer
Photography
James Darell (77) has greatly enjoyed working for many years with a multitude of clients. He brings together his passion for photography with his deep personal values of excellence, client service and collaborative team working.
www.facebook.com/andybramphotography www.helenbooker photography.com
James Darell treats photography as an artistic opportunity to bring the viewer a source of renewal and inspirational reflections of reality. www.jamesdarell.com Photography
Alex Steward (85) is a lawyer and photographer living in London. His photography reflects his eclectic interest and love of creation and people. www.alexstewartphotos.com
Wildlife Photography
James Wright (10) is a wildlife photographer who has always had an obsession with nature and was taken to bird reserves from a young age. He started photography using an old Olympus film camera and remembers vividly photographing the deer in his back garden during the evenings. This started a passion for getting close to nature and being in the outdoors, which along with a strange obsession for logistics and remote corners of the planet has lead him on many trips around the world. He now leads tours and teaches photography in locations in the UK and abroad. www.jpbwright.co.uk