About
Joe
Joe is a Musical Director, Conductor, Pianist, Composer and Singing Teacher. He has been the Musical Director for many productions and concerts in London and the North-East of England. He has worked with people such as David Charles-Abell, Simon Lee, Kristin Chenoweth and the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, amongst many others.
His passion for Music and Music Theatre translates to many different areas, including teaching as well as direction and accompanying. Having taken up the role of a Musical Director and Singing Teacher at London’s leading Musical Theatre Training provider, ArtsEd, he continues to get the best out of students, undergraduates and current working professionals in his rediscovered freelance career.
A keen and accomplished pianist and arranger, Joe also can be found writing vocal arrangements for ensembles, orchestral arrangements and piano arrangements for Cabaret’s, Productions and Musical Theatre Institutions.
He is also the composer of the musical, “Perfectly Ordinary”, had it's debut at the Guildford Fringe Festival and a professional run at The Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester - all with 4/5* reviews.
"Joe is a marvellously versatile, much-admired musician who works with authority and finesse across a whole range of styles. His knowledge of the Music-Theatre repertoire is encyclopaedic and his passion for music of all kinds is an inspiration to his students and colleagues"
- John Wilson of the John Wilson Orchestra
"I asked to be introduced to Joe after an Arts Ed graduation at which I had spoken. As much as I believe in ‘giving back’, I have a complete terror of public speaking, so couldn’t wait to get out of there, but was so impressed and moved by the final item in the programme, that I asked to meet its creator. That item was an arrangement of Sondheim’s Being Alive, sung by a whole year’s students, which was not only beautifully written, but beautifully taught to, and delivered by the students. One of the joys of being as far on in a career as I, is being able to recognise and support younger talent. Joe Wilson is, without question, just that"
- Simon Lee (Musical Director/Supervisor for
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber