Ian’s work with Wise Children as Composer includes: The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales (The Lucky Chance); Wuthering Heights (UK, US tour and The Holland Festival); Bagdad Café (The Old Vic); Malory Towers (Bristol Old Vic) and Wise Children (UK National tour).

Other work as Composer includes: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk (Kneehigh); The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Kneehigh); The cat & the Canary (Chichester Festival Theatre & Told by an Idiot) and on the film The Princess and Peppernose.

As a musician for Kneehigh Theatre includes: Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes, Don Jon, The Wild Bride, Tristan and Yseult, Dead Dog in a Suitcase, and The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk.

His work as Musical Director includes: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (Kneehigh); London Tide (National Theatre) and Girl From The North Country (Toronto 2019, Runway).

Nominations include: Dora Mavor Award for Outstanding Musical Direction 2020 (Girl from the North Country) and The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play 2023 (Wuthering Heights).

Ian is a Bristol based multi-instrumentalist and Composer and leads the band Eleven Magpies.