Neil is a professional musician of 15 years and has been playing multiple instruments since the age of 7, as well as privately teaching music for the last 10 years, Neil’s career has a variety of musical accolades…
Since performing as a Finalist in ‘Guitarist’ Magazine’s Young Guitarist of the Year competition at Wembley Exhibition Center in 1999 at age 15, Neil has been recording and touring around the world. He performed alongside Elvis’s original band members, Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee to commemorate the 50 year anniversary of Elvis’s “That’s Alright Mama”, in 2004. The next year he appeared on the John Peel Stage at Glastonbury Festival with his original band, BOA, which gained acclaim in the United States.
As a multi-intrumentalist, Neil has worked in many different areas of the musical spectrum from Festivals and Theatre tours, to Pit Work, Weddings, major Sport and Corporate events, as well as almost 3 years as a musician onboard Princess Cruise lines, covering 5 different ships and almost 50 different countries in that time!
In 2017 Neil was relocated to Shanghai, China to join 11 piece mega band “Studio 188” as Guitarist and Vocalist. Since then he has been involved in many different musical projects, performing all over China at major events including The Chinse Grand Prix and the Shanghai Rolex Masters. He has performed at large scale corporate events for clients such as Heineken, Rolex, Speedo, Catepillar, Wirtgen, aswell as the British, American, Swiss, German and Australian Chamber Of Commerce to name a few. In 2017 he also flew out to Melbourne, Australia to perform two shows at the Australian Open tennis tournament!
Neil is a ‘Signature Artist’ for high end Hungarian guitar company “Fibenare” and 2019 saw the release of his official signature model.
Neil spent 3 years based out of Shanghai, China where he could be found as a regular performer at China’s most famous jazz club… “JZ Club”, as well as the landmark “House of Blues and Jazz”. Aside from this Neil also worked as an equipment demonstrator for GuitarCube China, one of Asia’s biggest distrubtors of musical equipment for some of the worlds biggest brands including TC Electronics, Fishman and Faith Acoustic Guitars!
Most recently, Neil can be heard singing the lead vocals on the latest TV commercials for Chinese phone company “Meizu”, and well know car manufacturer “LANDROVER” for the Chinese market.
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