Some say it was Toby’s father playing guitar while his mother was pregnant that influenced his passion for music. Well by the age of two he started to tinkle on the piano, a year later tootling on a recorder. By seven he was scraping on the violin and went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s Junior Department. The Guildhall concluded the violin screeching showed little if any talent in music…

A few years later, captured by the sound of the flute, his parents bought him one. Of all the family he was the only one who couldn’t get a sound out of it! Nevertheless after much huffing and puffing he was soon blowing people away. Under the wing of the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s lead piccolo player, he received free lessons and progressed in leaps and bounds.

At primary school he had recorder lessons and learned to play the instruments in the Steel Band including drums; performing at the Barbican, Royal Festival Hall and in front of Her Majesty.

For secondary he traveled to Pimlico School to attend the Special Music Course. Here his music education was broadened with music theory, history, composition, arrangement, piano performance and flute performance. Soon he joined the London School’s Symphonic Band and performances entailed at the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall.

Doing his A’levels at Kingsway College on the London Young Musician’s Course he added to his classical training with jazz. After finishing his A’levels he studied at the University of Surrey and the London College of Music, learning more about ethnic music, advanced composition and performance.

Meanwhile Toby was building a home studio, teaching himself music technology and production while combining it with his classical and jazz training. Influenced by Quincy Jones, Leonard Bernstein, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bob Marley, Mahler and many more. As a result Toby’s music covers a rainbow of genres.

Composing for one of the National Theatre’s outstanding directors, for the stage production “Bintou” the music is blended with, Eastern, African and Western traditions.

The style of the West End orientated musical “Blow ‘em away!” crosses the Atlantic to Broadway with its big band jazzy music.

The jingles he has composed and produced for Choice FM and 1 Xtra are a fusion of R’n’B, hip hop and bashment. His remixes for Beyonce, Lemar, Sean Paul, Jay-Z, B2k, Nas, Ginuwine and Deborah Cox are chart and club orientated.