Copyist / type setter - Christopher Lydon - musician, composer, teacher, producer; piano, tuba, sousaphone

Copyist / music type setting for various ensembles, from solos, to musical theatre bands, to full orchestras, for professional, educational and student/amateur organisations. Working from hand-written originals, published works, midi files or other existing versions.

Professional

2020 onwards	Artisan Creative	Theatre, recording, tours	Lead sheets, folk-based parts, including non-reading-musician charts
2016 onwards	The Vagabond Collective	Recording, tours	Folk-based parts, including non-reading-musician charts
2014 onwards	Steve Bonham and The Long Road	Recording, tours	Folk-based parts, including non-reading-musician charts
2016 onwards	Tri Tones Jazz Trio	Performance	Jazz-based lead sheets
2012 onwards	Steve Bonham	Recording	Folk-based parts, including non-reading-musician charts
2007 onwards	1623 theatre company	Theatre, tours	Lead sheets, solo instrumentals, chamber ensembles, full orchestras
2007	Manchester International Festival	Performance	Brass quintet scores and parts
2010	Beth Nielsen Chapman	Tours	Brass band quintet scores and parts
2013 - 2015	Maison Foo	Theatre	Small ensemble parts
2003 - 2015	Coupland Brass Quintet	Performance	Brass quintet scores and parts
2004 onwards	Quarter Tones	Performance	Brass ensembles scores and parts
2005 onwards	The Northern Lights	Performance	Brass-led party band scores and parts
2011 onwards	Dr Big Love Productions Ltd	Performance	Rock and blues band brass and horn parts, non-reading-musician charts
2014	Kev Moore	Performance	Brass and sax parts

Educational

2004 onwards	Hallé Orchestra	Performance	Brass quintet scores and parts, beginner brass parts, Gamelan charts
2014 - 2015	London Philharmonic Orchestra	Performance	Orchestral chamber ensemble scores and parts
2006	Manchester Camerata	Performance	Bespoke notation solution for education project, based on Mozart's Musical Dice

Amateur / student organisations

2004	Manchester Gershwin Orchestra	Performance	Scores and parts for special arrangements and orchestrations, based on the orchestra that originally premiered Rhapsody in Blue (a non-standard "jazz" orchestra)
2017 - 2022	Not The Panto	Theatre	Musical theatre band scores and parts
2005 onwards	Beercrate Productions	Theatre	Musical theatre band scores and parts
2003 - 2004	Big Love Big Band	Performance	Big band scores and parts, including non-reading-musician charts