Born in England in 1944, I studied piano in Brisbane with Nora Baird from 1952, and in Melbourne from 1954 with Lindsay Biggins, J.A. Steele and Roy Shepherd. After obtaining my AMusA performing diploma in 1958, I discontinued piano lessons the following year for five years, returning to study with Roy Shepherd in 1964. The following year I obtained my LMusA performing diploma and was a Victorian State finalist in the ABC's Instrumental and Vocal Competition (now the Young Performers' Award) in 1966 and 1968, being made equal State winner in 1968. I also appeared nine times on Channel 10's "Showcase" in the years 1968-1970.

My professional performing career began in the United States in the years 1970-1972 where I performed numerous chamber music recitals in collaboration with members of the North Carolina Symphony, an activity I continued on returning to Melbourne in collaboration with members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. I perform frequently as soloist or chamber musician and I have appeared widely in Melbourne, Victorian provincial centres, interstate and overseas including the United States, Mexico, Germany and China. My colleagues in chamber music performance have included Andrew Bain, Hermann Baumann, the Binneas Quartet, David Bloom, Rhonda Bruce, the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, Tony Conolan, Jeffrey Crellin, Joan Dargavel, Graeme Evans, Tania Ferris, Phillip Green, David Griffiths, Brian Hansford, Vernon Hill, Louisa Hunter-Bradley, Thomas Indermuhle, John Kennedy, Michael Kisin, Janis Laurs, Frances Lehmann, Chris Martin, Phillip Miechel, Ian Morgan, Max Neil, Merlyn Quaife, Spiros Rantos, the Rowe Quartet, David Thomas, Henry Wenig, Denis Wick and Matthew Wilkie.

I have made over 100 studio recordings and broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and have released audio CD recordings of music for piano solo by Mozart (1995), Beethoven (1996), Brahms (1997) and Chopin (2004), together with a CD of Schubert's Winterreise with soprano Louisa Hunter-Bradley (2006) and "Impromptu - A Collection of Impromptus, Fantasies and Impressions" containing works for piano solo by Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Granados, Albeniz and Debussy (2009). My latest CD (2011) contains the Piano & Wind Quintets of Mozart and Beethoven performed with Jeffrey Crellin (oboe), David Griffiths (clarinet), Graeme Evans (horn) and Matthew Wilkie (bassoon). 

I have organised a number of musical events including Monash University's 1983 Brahms Chamber Music Festival and 1997 Schubert/Brahms Festival.

I teach piano privately and, having been honorary accompanist to the West Gippsland Chorale from 2001 to 2009, I am currently honorary accompanist to the Latrobe Chorale.

I have operated for several years as independent academic contractor and was an Associate Professor at Monash University's Gippsland Medical School for six years until April 2014. I am currently an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the School of Applied and Biomedical Science at Federation University Australia.  My research paper  Grief, Denial and Rage: A Revisionist View of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata was accepted for presentation as a Lecture-Recital at the 12th Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference held in Melbourne in July, 2015.  In March 2016 I presented the same lecture-recital in the School of Music at Soochow University in Suzhou, China.