About Neil...

My grandad saw that there could be some potential from me and he set me up with some organ lessons. They started out in a local music store when I was 7 years old - and then I went on to private tuition on electronica organ and pipe / theater organ until I was 15. I performed my first organ concert when I was 8 years old. I played piano a little as a kid and in church, but it wasn't until I worked on cruise ships that I really had to adapt from organ to piano. 

I played professionally from 1997 to 2005 on cruise ships, river boats and hotels around the world - and I often tell people that it was the best job ever. I was being paid to do what I loved and I was seeing the world too. I worked on the rivers in Europe and Holland America Line and Cunard which took me all over the world - including two round the world voyages on the Saga Rose and Queen Elizabeth 2.  I met my wife Vanessa on the Cunard Caronia and I performed on the inaugural season and Maiden Voyage of the Queen Mary 2. It really was the best!