Joe Cummings
LMTO Upbeat Creative Director
Joe is a musical director, vocal coach, composer, pianist and animateur. He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music as a pianist and is a qualified Higher Education Teacher. As a pianist and director he has worked at Matilda The Musical, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company and Wigmore Hall. His most recent compositions have been performed on stage at the Royal Academy of Music, Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall.
Joe is passionate about access to participatory music and theatre and positive impact this can have on peoples’ lives whether that be learning to play an instrument, experiencing and discussing live performances or creating new work about topics which entice and relate to creators, performers and audiences.
Joe devises and runs projects for companies including the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, Voices Across Time and Hold The Drama.