Joe comes from a non-brass playing family. From the young age of 6, he regularly listed to his grandfather play the church organ; this in turn gave him the inspiration to become an instrumentalist himself. Joe began playing brass instruments at the age of 11 and became actively involved in the school brass group and school orchestra. Unsure exactly as to what instrument was for him, Joe opted for the flugelhorn in his first year at secondary school.

Joe gradually moved his way down the band, arriving on tenor horn as it was more suitable for his embouchure. He recently transitioned to the Tuba around a year ago and has been playing with the 4th section band, Bradwell Silver, back in his hometown of Milton Keynes.

After studying music at GCSE and A level, at Kingsbrook College in Milton Keynes, Joe applied to do a single honours Bachelor of Music course. He is currently completing this as a first year
undergraduate at Canterbury Christ Church University. From here, Joe is hoping to either become a professional tubist, or as an alternative, go into the fields of either music therapy or teaching, after hopefully completing a Masters in Music.

One of Joe's most recently performed pieces in public is an arrangement of Robert Schumann's "The Merry Peasant" for brass band; a tuba solo with challenging semiquaver runs requiring a large amount of stamina. This was the final piece that he performed with Bradwell Silver Band at their previous annual solo competition. He was renowned at Bradwell Silver Band for adopting a new approach to musical dynamics. A certain fellow bass player had from the early stages, convinced him into his way of thinking, that "mp" was in fact short for "mighty powerful" (!)
His other favourite pieces, Øystein Baadsvik's Fnugg Blue, and the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto, are Joe's future works in progress, which hopefully he will be performing sometime next year. At the moment, Joe is working towards his Grade 6 in Tuba and hopes to be at a satisfactory standard for his instrument come the end of this academic year.

Alongside Tom Pascoe, who is also in the bass section, Joe is one of the more  recent additions to Cantium Brass. He hopes to continue playing with the band throughout his studies over  the next couple of years