Born in 1991 Franny is primarily a composer and producer. He was educated on a contemporary writing scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He studied traditional and jazz composition, synthesiser programming, and jazz piano. At the age of 12 he won the young student of the year at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and shortly after began working in music professionally having demonstrated natural ability and perfect pitch from the age of 3.
He is well versed as a session musician working frequently at Abbey Road Studios (London) conducting members from the London Symphony Orchestra, playing piano on various sessions, arranging, and occasionally producing too. Latterly he is also working as a score engraver. He has a varied background in music composition for television, musicals, and songwriting.
At 22 he accepted a post to direct music at the prestigious St Paul’s Cathedral in Boston MA where he would run the Cathedral Cantorum Choir and was principal organist and honorary member of the American Guild of Organists.
He is also a versatile recording engineer working on mixing and mastering projects. He runs his own custom-built mix and mastering suite and works remotely for clientele all over the world.
He is a founding member of ‘Survibers’ along with his wife Katrina (vocalist) and their original music has been promoted by Tom Robinson on the BBC and is heard throughout the world including NPR in America. It would be remiss not to include a mention of his love of vintage synthesisers under the disciplines of analogue, wavetable and FM all of which he keenly employs for sound design.
He has been kindly supported by the Royal Society of Musicians & Help Musicians.
He is a member of the PRS, PPL and BMI.
