Townhill & Nicholson
David Townhill grew up in a musical family becoming a classical concert pianist and second study violin/viola. He then began dabbling in the dark arts of pop, rock and musical theatre. This journey has taken him from the Edinburgh Festival to Glasgow's King's theatre; from Princes Street Gardens to the Cambridge May Balls; from the Kelburn Garden Party to Doune the Rabbit Hole and beyond! He's rocked out with original bands Lipsync for a Lullaby, My Next Girlfriend and The Tinderbox Orchestra, covers with The Rear View Band, rehearsed and performed all over Scotland in musicals, operas and pantomimes, and has an extensive classical performance history including: Rhapsody in Blue, Grieg's piano concerto and Finzi's Eclogue as soloist; requiems by Faure and Brahms, the St John Passion and The Messiah as repetiteur for Dunbar Choral Society. He is now also a church organist at Holy Cross, Davidson's Mains, Edinburgh.
Ken Nicholson has been imagining stuff and acting it up from an early age! His credits range from the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham in his self penned pantomime "Three Little Maids in Sherwood Forest" to Oscar Wilde's Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan. He's digested more Shakespeare than you or I've had school dinners and he's Traversed the young writer's programme at said Theatre with many another aspiring playwright. Along with David Townhill he's forged no less than three musicals taking one to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the Gilded Balloon, having another shortlisted for workshops by London's Perfect Pitch Musicals Ltd, and seeing their latest effort, Celebrity, have its demo recorded and filmed at the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh. He's also produced, directed and performed in plays, musicals and films for the Makars, the Luvvies, Creative Space and other Edinburgh societies.
