Philip is Head of Surrey Arts and Chair of the Surrey Music Hub. Philip studied piano, guitar and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and a PGCE in Cambridge pioneering the use of music technology as a secondary teacher. He was Richmond Music Trust’s first Chief Executive and has served on the board of Creative Response . Philip composes music for stage, film and TV and is credited with writing one of the first musicals about the Titanic disaster that pre-dated both the Broadway and film versions.