Tony Simister
About Me...
Welcome to my website. Born and educated in the North West of England I now I live and work in South Devon on the edge of Dartmoor. I have been involved in studying, playing and teaching music for as long as I can remember and I am active in many musical projects - playing celtic fiddle, jazz guitar, mandolin, piano, I love music across all its manifestations - whether it be jazz, classical, folk, opera - each of these is a dialect of a language that speaks to us all. In my own composition work I like to blend and mix, to meld and fuse as many different styles and idioms as I can...
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Welcome to Moorside Music
On my website you will find the details of the musicals that I have written and (eventually) a library of other compositions, and my music in the duo ARTISAN
My Gap year
The musical comedy is set on the little Greek Island of Pandemonikos. Poppy has taken a year out after university before she settles down to a permanent career - but things do not go quite according to plan when Dan arrives. He is a malevolent womaniser and confidence trickster...
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Tippling Down
It is early 1945 and the last "rivulet" of evacuees from up the smoke (London, Birmingham, Exeter and Plymouth) arrives in the previously sleepy little village of Tippling Down. The musical starts as a fairy tale but the nightmare reality of war and the death of the village matriarch challenge a way of life...
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Emperor josh
This charming story tells of Emperor Joshua, King of the USA. After losing a hard earned fortune on the rice markets in the fledgling port of San Francisco in the decades after the Goldrush, the disenchanted Joshua Norton
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