Composer/arranger and multi-instrumentalist. A former pupil at Bishop Wordsworth School, Salisbury and later member and leader of the Wiltshire Youth and Salisbury Junior Orchestras on violin. Played in rock and folk bands in the Salisbury area from the age of 15 onwards and later graduate of Trinity College of Music (L.T.C.L.) on violin, piano and composition. Involved in many classical/light music ventures including orchestras, a flute quartet, a duo with cello and a 30's cabaret act. Later played bass, guitar, violin and keyboards in various bands. From 1988-91 was the bass player and a composer/arranger with EPJ, a 13-piece modern jazz big band. Later, played guitar, keyboards and vocals in a 4-piece pop band, then violin in a duo with guitar until mid 1996, followed by piano in his own original jazz quartet with guitar, bass and drums.

In 1998, a collaboration with The Booming Cherries, a contemporary dance troupe, produced Gravy Bones, a jazz oriented dance work. The following year he wrote and recorded the score for King Arthur, a current production by the Spiral Arts dance theatre company. Other works include string quartets, works for flute and piano/guitar and currently an album of solo piano pieces is in preparation. All these works reflect an eclectic experience and a leaning towards music for dramatic and visual media. He writes from his Kent-based home recording studio and has composed and produced many albums there including playalongs for harmonica with Ben Hewlett and spoken-word material with Shaun de Warren and Marietta Pinto-Hayes.

Currently he is producing books on Music Training Basics and collections of pieces for piano, violin, guitar and flute. The training side is really important to him and while teaching at the City Literary Institute from 1993 he wrote a three-year jazz harmony and ear training course, that has become part of his private teaching program. Two volumes on ear training are at present in preparation.

Contact paul@paullennon.com for more information.