GAVIN O'LOGHLEN

 

Gavin O'Loghlen is an actor, author, composer, musician, director and recording artist having written and composed for over thirty music theatre productions and plays for stage and film. He plays a wide variety of instruments and has worked as a session musician on many recordings.

Gavin O'Loghlen has a degree in Drama and many years experience in Music, Music Theatre and Drama productions.

Gavin started playing bagpipes at 11 years of age and played for a number of years in pipe bands and in Highland competitions. Upon entering university to study a degree in drama, he added guitar, keyboards and flute to his list of instruments. During the course of his studies there was a gradual shift from acting, which was his major, to writing music for theatre productions. This tended to take the form of atmospheric pieces using synthesizers and banks of keyboards and was compared to the symphonic progressive sounds of early Genesis and King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel. The theatre productions gradually evolved to became more complex and eventually ended up as rock operas - theatre pieces of between 90 and 120 minutes all sung and performed to a musical soundtrack with live musicicans.

Gavin also returned to his musical roots with the creation of "Cotters Bequest" a progressive Celtic ensemble that used Highland, Uilleann, Northumbrian and Scottish small pipes amid layers of keyboards, guitars and vocals. Cotters Bequest have released three albums and are currently writing and recording their fourth. He also has released The Poet and the Priest as a solo project

PAST AND CURRENT WORKS

PRODUCTION

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 Henry IV Part 11
William Shakespeare
 Actor
 The Insect Play
Josef and Karel Kapek
 Actor
 Mystery Bouffe
 Vladimir Mayakovsky
 Actor / composer / musician
 Peer Gynt
 Henrik Ibsen
 Actor / musician / musical director
 Ride across Lake Constance
 Peter Handke
 Actor
Man of Mode 
 George Etherege
 Actor
 Fando and Lis
 Fernando Arrabal
 Actor
Dan Morgan
Robert Kimber
Actor / composer / muscician / musical director
 The Nose
 Nikolai Gogol
 Actor
 Towards a poor theatre
 Jerzy Grotowski
 Actor (European tour)
 The Bed-Sitting room
 John Antrobus and Spike Milligan
 Actor
 Jeux de massacre
 Eugéne Ionesco
 Actor
 Women of Troy
 Euripides
Composer / musician / musical director
 Ham Funeral
Patrick White
Composer / musician / musical director
 Joseph and the amazing technicolour Dreamcoat
Andrew LLoyd Webber
 Musician / musical director / director
 Sebastian and the quest for the fourth person
 Gavin O'Loghlen
Author / composer / musician / musical director / director
The Hobbit
 JRR Tolkien
 Composer / musician / musical director / director
 Four Days
Gavin O'Loghlen
 Author / composer / musician / musical director / director
 Warlord
Gavin O'Loghlen
Author / composer / musician / musical director / director
 In the Image of Narcissus
 Gavin O'Loghlen
Author / actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
 The Adolescence of Miss Trust
Gavin O'Loghlen
Author / actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
 The Problems of Nuts and how to conker them
Gavin O'Loghlen
Author / actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
 Nerbellus of Blog
Gavin O'Loghlen
Author / actor / composer / musician / musical director / director
The Poet and the Priest
Gavin O'Loghlen
Composer / musician
 Greeks plays for children
Gavin O'Loghlen
Author
Antigone
Sophocles
 Composer / musician / musical director / director
 A Good Yarn
 Alan Lyne
 Composer / musician / musical director
 Straight from the Horse's Mouth
Alan Lyne
Composer / musician / musical director
 The Valley Beyond
Gavin O'Loghlen
Composer / musician / musical director/ director
 Black Comedy
 Peter Shaffer
 Director
Noises Off
 Michael Frayn
 Actor / director
 The Women
Sophocles / Euripides / Aeschylus
 Director
The Colour of Beauty
Gavin O'Loghlen
 Composer / musician / musical director/ director
 Medea
 Euripides
 Director
 Like a Rubber Band
Gavin O'Loghlen
 Composer / musician / musical director/ director
 Look Look
Michael Frayn
Director
 The Island
Gavin O'Loghlen
 Composer / musician / musical director/ director
 Marat / Sade
 Peter Weiss
 Director
 In the Home of my Ancestors
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest
  Composer / musician
 Ancient Lands
 Loch'rien
 Composer / musician
 My Mother's Country
 Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest
  Composer / musician
 Grim Tales
Young Vic Theatre company
 Composer / musician / musical director
 The Venetian Twins
 Nick Enright and Terence Clarke
 Musician / musical director
 Arabian Nights
 Young Vic Theatre company
  Composer / musician / musical director
 Land of the vast horizon
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotters Bequest
   Composer / musician
 The Kelly Dance
Troupe Theatre Company
 Composer / musician / musical director
 The Snow Queen
 Hans Christian Andersen
Musician / recording
 Hansel & Gretel
 The Brothers Grimm
Musical director
 Animal Farm
George Orwell
Musical director
 The Loin, The Witch and The Wardrode
 C S Lewis
  Musician / recording
 The Nativity
 The Bible
  Musical director
 A Christmas Carol
 Charles Dickens
 Musical director
 Mother Courage
 Bertolt Bretch
  Composer / musician / musical director
 The Secret Garden
 Frances Hodgson Burnett
  Musical director
 The Popular Mechanicals
 Tony Taylor and Keith Robinson
  Musical director
 King Ubu
 Alfred Jarry
  Musical director
 The Beauty and the Beast
 Folk Story
  Composer / musician / musical director
 Tom Sawyer
 Mark Twain
  Musician / musical director
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
 Musical director
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
 Musical director
Beasts and Beauties
Carol Ann Duffy
Composer / musician / musical director
Alice
Lewis Carrol
Composer / musician / musical director
Cinderella
Stuart Paterson
Composer / musician / musical director
Be my Baby
Amanda Whittington
 Musical director
No Man's Land
Harold Pinter
Foley sound FX
The Pied Piper
Adrian Mitchell
Composer / musician / musical director

 

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