John is a television director and film maker with two decades of experience in the industry. He has worked across many of the UK’s most well-known and respected music programmes.
John multi-camera directs coverage of the BBC Proms including concerts by JADE, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He also directs the live presentation of Glastonbury and Reading Festival for the BBC iPlayer channel. Other music programmes he has directed include the Leeds Piano Competition, the Live From The Barbican series, and concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia, and Chineke! Orchestra.
John has also directed BBC & ITV music documentaries including Glastonbury’s Greatest Headliners, The BRITs at 40, Beats, Bass & Bars: The Story Of Grime, Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices, Rock n Roll America, Bob Harris: My Nashville, Trad Jazz Britannia and The A-Z of Later with Jools Holland.
He has made short films for the BAFTA Film Awards, BAFTA Television Awards, The BRIT Awards and the BBC Glastonbury Coverage and has worked on many other acclaimed music programmes including Punk Britannia, Festivals Britannia, Top Of The Pops 2, The Joy Of Abba, The Joy Of Easy Listening, Mercury Music Prize, Radio 1 Big Weekend, and Later… with Jools Holland.
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Broadcast Credits
JADE at the Proms and The Planets and Star Wars at the Proms and Bach and Mendelssohn at the Proms (Director. BBC2/4. 2025)
Reading Festival (Director. BBC iPlayer channel. 2025)
Glastonbury (Director. BBC iPlayer channel. 2023-2025)
The BAFTA Film Awards and The BAFTA TV Awards (VT Producer. BBC1. 2024-2025)
Leeds International Piano Competition (Director. BBC4/Medici TV. 2024)
First Night Of The Proms and John Wilson Sinfonia of London and Mozart with Ensemble Resonanz. (Director. BBC Proms. BBC2/4. 2024)
Inside Classical: Music Night from Alexandra Palace (Director. BBC4. 2024)
First Night Of The Proms and Yuja Wang Plays Rachmaninoff and Sir Simon Rattle At The Proms. (Director. BBC Proms. BBC2/4. 2023)
The BAFTA Film Awards 2023. (Studio Director. Live BBC1. 2023)
Earth Prom and Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra (Director. BBC Proms. BBC2. 2022)
Stravinsky: Firebird, Petrushka & The Rite Of Spring (Director. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and OnAir Productions. 2022)
Glastonbury (VT Director. BBC. 2008-2022)
Live from the Barbican (Director. Various shows. Barbican online. 2021-22)
The First Night of the Proms (Director. BBC2 Live. 2021)
The BRIT Awards (VT Director. ITV1. 2021)
A Christmas Celebration: John Rutter & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Director. RPO Online. 2020)
Abel Selaocoe’s Jazz Takeover - with Chesaba and the BBC Concert Orchestra (Director. iPlayer 2020)
BBC Proms: Sir Simon Rattle & the LSO and Kokoroko (Director. BBC4. 2020)
The BRITs at 40 (Producer/Director. ITV1. 2020)
Public Service Broadcasting and Sheku Plays Elgar and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2019)
Glastonbury’s Greatest Headliners (Producer/Director. BBC2. 2019)
The Brits Are Coming (Producer/Director. ITV1. 2019)
Beats, Bass and Bars: The Story Of Grime (Producer/Director. ACME Films/BBC4. 2018)
Pioneers of Sound and Marin Alsop Conducts Bernstein (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2018)
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (Producer/Director. BBC4. 60min. 2017)
The A-Z of Later... with Jools Holland (Producer/Director. BBC2. 90min. 2017)
Simon Rattle's Gurrelieder and Barenboim's Elgar (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2017)
Brits Icon Robbie Williams (VT Edit Producer. ITV1. 2016)
The Planets with the NYO and Barenboim Conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Director. BBC Proms. BBC4. 2016)
Montreux Jazz Festival (Producer/Director. Red Bull TV. 2016)
The Art Show (Director. Sky Arts. 2016)
Rock n Roll America: Be My Baby (Producer/Director. BBC4. 60min. 2015)
Concerto at the BBC Proms and Sunday Symphony: James MacMillan (Director. BBC4. 2015)
Bob Harris: My Nashville (Director. BBC4/WBBC. 60min. 2014)
BBC Proms Masterworks: Maxwell Davies (Director. BBC4. 2014)
Trad Jazz Britannia (Producer/Director. BBC4. 60min. 2013)