Si McGrath

Following many years as a gigging musician (UK, Europe and USA), in the late 1990’s Si focused more on songwriting and production, which led to a Music Production degree at Leeds Conservatoire. Whilst completing his degree, Si joined forces with a fellow alumni and set up a commercial recording studio and music production company in Leeds which ran successfully for 10 years. As well as recording/producing a multitude of bands and artists from the local area, across Britain and some European artists, under the banner of ‘Hightone Productions’ Si  has co-written and produced bespoke music for many media companies, in addition to sound design, composition and production for multiple theatre productions on both a national and international level.

Si began lecturing at Leeds Conservatoire in the Autumn of 2011 and continues to undertake freelance production and sound design work outside of lecturing duties. He successfully completed his MA in Music Production in January 2016

Credits include:

• Co - Composition/Production for pre-show films for Busted & Westlife Arena tours
• Sound Design - ‘Michael Jackson’s Mind’ (RDF Media)
• Co-composition and production of bespoke tracks for multi-million selling video game ‘Broken Sword IV’
• 2 years (2004-2006) working as the freelance live sound engineer at Leeds Town Hall on multiple orchestral, operatic and theatrical productions 
• Sound Design and production for short Film ‘Soldiering On’ (Channel 4)
• Music Production and sound design for Award winning theatre company ‘Mind The Gap’ including ‘Irresistible’ (South Bank Centre, National Theatre, festivals in Switzerland, Germany and across the UK) and ‘Trickster’ (Black Box Theatre, Galway)
• Music production and sound design for New Music Biennial piece ‘Gift’ written by Jez Colbourne