TERESA BARLOW

Teresa studied cello with Ioan Davies, and piano from the age of 3, with a stint under the tutelage of Professor John Byrne. She deputised as a musician in the West End for shows such as The King & I and Fame, after which she began her musical director career with a season on cruise ships.Further Musical Director credits include:Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Christmas Crooners and Strictly Swing, all National Tours.  Aladdin, Snow White & Seven Dwarves, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella for New Pantomime Productions at The Kings Theatre Portsmouth. Musical Supervision includes:  Over The Rainbow, Popstar the Musical, X Factor the Musical  (National Tours) and The Jungle Book at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. She was also involved as an arranger for the Coronation Street of Dreams project.TV: Teresa was piano consultant and musical arranger for Mapp & Lucia for the BBC. She also played Anna Chancellor’s hands! She has arranged music for Sky Drama Fortitude, Amazon’s The Collection, and most recently composed and created sound design for the BBC Radio 4 play Eastern Star.In 2015 Teresa co-founded her own theatre production company and since then as well as producing over 25 professional shows all over the UK, she has created sound design and composition for each of them.Teresa works regularly with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as an arranger and pianist for their ‘Voices’ choir. Teresa wrote Requiem 2020, premiered by the BSO. A 55 minute work dedicated to all the events that took place in 2020. Most recently she has written an orchestral piece that accompanies the poem "The Christmas Truce' by Carol Ann Duffy. This will be premiered in Southampton at The Guildhall December 2023. If you'd like to hear more of her work then get in touch and we can send you a link to a showreel. Many thanks