" He is a one-man orchestra, one-man theatre..

disciplined hysteria... high voltage."

Paul Griffiths, The Times

"hugely enjoyable,formidable technical agility and subtlety,

confidence and energy versatile and virtuosic."

Nicholas Williams,Independent

Simon Limbrick's involvement in music embraces performance, composing and education.

He contributed as a member of the cult systems orchestra The Lost Jockey and Man Jumping, recording for EG Editions and creating scores for leading dance companies, Second Stride and London Contemporary Dance. He has been in demand as a percussionist performing all over the world with the Nash Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Endymion Ensemble, Composers' Ensemble and Fibonacci Sequence. He was guest principal with the LSO in Japan.

In education, Simon has led workshops since 1982, and been a returning resident artist in festivals and organisations, including Blackheath Concert Halls, Aldeburgh Music, Sound It Out , Spitalfields Festival. Workshop projects have been led by him throughout Europe.

In 1990 Simon completed his MA in Electroacoustic Composition at City University. He has collaborated as a composer on a number of large scale works, including a project at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, with Rosemary Lee and site-specific work with Dutch composer/sound sculptor Harry de Wit in Holland and Brussels.

As a composer, Simon has produced several film scores shown on TV and at festivals. He has also created pieces for Mary Wiegold's Songbook, Roger Heaton Group, Ensemble Bash, Network of Sparks, Endymion Ensemble, Richard Durrant, Brighton Youth Orchestra and Hooloo. He was Composer-in-residence at Blackheath Concert Halls in 95/96.

Compositions created for him include works by Javier Alvarez, Brian Elias (Kenneth MacMillan's last ballet The Judas Tree), Vic Hoyland and Andrew Poppy. He has performed the world-premieres of solo pieces by James Dillon, Frederic Rzewski , Claude Vivier, Philip Cashian, Thea Musgrave, Harry de Wit and Howard Skempton. His solo performances have been broadcast by the BBC, RAI, Radio France and Dutch TV and radio.

He has created the CDs, Steam, Hooloo, Clean, Ritmatik, Machine and Stone, which are frequently broadcast.

For more information on Simon and his works visit www.marimbo.com