Mr Simon Deacon
Position held:
Lecturer
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7655
Email:
s.deacon (@gold.ac.uk)
Simon Deacon has been teaching at Goldsmiths College since 2002 and became a permanent member of the teaching staff in 2008. He holds undergraduate degrees in Theatre (from Rose Bruford College) and Music (1st Class Hons from Goldsmiths College) and a graduate degree in Jazz Composition from The Manhattan School of Music, New York, as a Fulbright Scholar.
Professional activities
His professional practice covers work in a variety of media, as pianist/accompanist, composer/arranger, Music Director/producer, including collaborations with (amongst others): writer/theatre director Neil Bartlett (a score for “Twelfth Night” for the RSC, Autumn 2007; “Oliver Twist” for The Lyric Hammersmith, 2004, remounted in 2007 for American Repertory Theatre, Boston, Theatre for a New Audience, New York & Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California – where it won the Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for Best Production 2007 and a major new commission for the Manchester International Festival 2009); with New York performance artist, John Kelly and iconic photographer Nan Goldin, in the presentation of her, “The Other Side”, in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern as part of UBS Openings: The Long Weekend May 2008; and with celebrated New York queer performer Justin Bond, as pianist and Musical Director of his backing band, The Freudian Slippers, in London & New York. Other collaborations include Complicite/National Theatre (Measure For Measure), choir projects for Jude Kelly in London and Liverpool and commissions for many UK and international theatre/dance projects and singer-songwriters as arranger/producer/accompanist. Simon has also taught at the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts and the Peabody Conservatoire of Music (amongst others) and has been an assessor for the BBC’s Fame Academy Bursary Scheme.
