In March 2023 I did one of the most exciting things I have ever done in my life. I published my first book “All the Best Parties”! And this is what it’s all about.

“Imagine the forces of power, wealth, sex and influence aimed not at artistic glory but focused like a death ray on a great opera company….

I was invited by the Director of Music of Lipscomb University, Brown Bannister, to help with a new strategic planning process in March 2019. A plan was needed fairly urgently, and I traveled over to Nashville for a week to work intensively with Brown and his team…

I have been giving this talk either as a Keynote address or an interactive workshop all over Europe and the States, from Estonia (pictured) to North Carolina.

To begin with the team I became part of, headed up by the amazing Andreas Sønning of the Norwegian Academy of Music Oslo, Nick Long from Southampton University, and Rod Udo from Utrecht University of Applied Science.

I was commissioned by the AEC in September 2017 to do a formal evaluation of a new Research and Development project centred upon Musical Entrepreneurship (RENEW) involving 5 major conservatoires: Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; The Royal Conservatoire at The Hague; The Norwegian Academy Oslo; The Guildhall School London and the Royal Academy in Aarhus Denmark.

I have a tremendous passion for Social Entrepreneurship, (or Social Impact Projects) and its important place in the world and I have been giving lectures and workshops about its relevance and application to the arts and music for many years now.

Last year I was invited by the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid, where I am Visiting Professor, to help create a brand new Entrepreneurship program for the School.

This residency was an opportunity to work with the amazing Panos Panay and his new program, the Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship (ICE), which has already been identified as one of the major forces for change in how we define and teach entrepreneurship in music.