About

Since moving to Edinburgh in 1992, Jon has worked primarily in theatre on over 200 productions throughout Scotland and beyond.  He has an eclectic range as both a composer and arranger, and has worked in a wide variety of musical genres, especially within musical theatre.

Between 2022 and 2026 he extended his work as a visiting musical director for 3 drama schools: Bristol School of Acting (where he is an Associate Artist), Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and Royal Welsh College in Cardiff, in addition to past work at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow and Queen Margaret in Edinburgh.

His first commission was a new score for The Grapes of Wrath in 1994 by 7:84 Theatre Company. Since then Jon has written music for many companies, including the National Theatre of Scotland, the Abbey, Dublin, the Traverse, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Dundee Rep, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Nottingham Playhouse, the Byre St Andrews, and Firebrand Theatre, as well as for UK tours of The 39 Steps, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Time and the Conways.

In 2013 he was invited to join the artistic team of The Enchanted Forest, an annual son et lumière in Perthshire, as one of the composers, and has continued to be commissioned almost every year since, working alongside fellow sound designers RJ McConnell and Rachel Cullen.

He has written music for numerous theatre premieres by writers including David Greig [Damascus, The Speculator], Jules Horne [Gorgeous Avatar], Justin Young [In My Father’s Words] and Catherine Czerkawska [Wormwood].

In musical theatre he has worked in many roles on all scales of production, from a 2-keyboard version of Richard Taylor's score for Whistle Down the Wind, to full-scale UK tours including Dundee Rep's Sunshine on Leith as assistant to MD Hilary Brooks.

Jon helped inaugurate the musical theatre strand at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, and for 10 years arranged and supervised productions in its renowned repertory season, with both actor-musicians and dedicated bands. Chicago, in 2018, became the best-selling show in the theatre’s history.

Jon also works with youth theatres, and community-based or amateur companies. He enjoys co-devising theatre work beyond established text-based pieces, and working with all actors of all musical ability.