Garry has been performing professionally for many years working with orchestras, brass bands, jazz orchestras & ensembles, wind bands, choirs, rock bands, musical theatre and acoustic artists. He has performed in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, St. Davids Hall Cardiff, Symphony Hall Birmingham and the Birmingham NEC, among many others throughout Europe. In 2009 he played the main stage of the Godiva festival in Coventry as percussionist for midlands based acoustic artist April Elizanbeth.
As a musician and sound technician Garry has also worked alongside and supported well known artists Sir Bob Geldof, Newton Faulkner, Nizlopi, Idlewild and The Levellers to name but a few.
In 2005 Garry graduated from De Montfort University Leicester, with a BA (Hons) in Music, Technology & Innovation, during which time he studied congas and Latin percussion under world renowned Mexican percussionist Alonso Mendoza-Moreno and received commissions for compositions from the Haymarket Theatre and the BBC.
After leaving University Garry worked as a composer and sound designer for independent film and animation projects in the UK, United States and Canada alongside teaching drum kit and orchestral percussion at North Warwickshire and Hinckley college for five years.
Coming from a background in brass bands Garry is also a competent brass player having played cornet, soprano cornet and flugel horn for brass bands throughout Europe in his teens and Trumpet for musical productions such as 'Grease' and 'Little Shop of Horrors'. Garry is now principal cornet and flugelhorn for Bedworth Wind Band.
Garry currently works as a freelance percussionist specialising in, but not limited to, congas, bongos, cajon and Latin percussion. With over ten years teaching experience he is in demand as a drum teacher in the midlands and teaches from a custom drum studio at his Nuneaton based home.
Garry is a tutor at Bedworth Music Academy, based at Ash Green School & Arts College, where he teaches drum kit, percussion, steel pans and various music groups. He is also a peripatetic drum teacher in schools throughout the area. For the last year Garry has been Musical Director of Bedworth Junior Wind Band.