Alan Gout
Artistic Director

Alan Gout, artistic director, has lead a very varied musical life. Despite reading music at Oxford his first musical employment was playing in a pub jazz trio with BSSB percussionist Tony Summers, followed by touring with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as a trombonist in the Gilbert & Sullivan operas. This versatility soon led to extensive work on many West End musicals, composing and arranging

at the National Theatre and musical direction for the Royal Shakespeare Company, most notably for Nicholas Nickleby, which enjoyed a highly succesful run on Broadway and became the first major drama on the, then, new Channel 4.

He has also worked as a ballet conductor and musical director for children’s TV programmes; all the while gaining a reputation as an expert arranger and composer of original light music especially in the educational field, with commissions from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia.

His arrangements and orchestrations have been performed by the late Lary Adler, sung by Willard White and played by the L.P.O. and L.S.O. They are also featured on the new Come Dancing ballroom dance CD and he is musical director of the Tea-Dances held regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Alan is a lecturer at the new University of the Arts in London and is a regular artist at the Dartington International Summer School of Music.

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