RDCE started the year working with Russell Watson and Claude-Michel Schönberg (composer of ‘Les Misérables’) on their new album, ‘Only One Man’. Going to work with such an experienced, well respected producer and composer as Schönberg was something very special and difficult to beat!

Once this project was in the bag, he was flown out to Switzerland again for a new show which Moritz Schneider and Michael Reed had composed; ‘Der Besuch Der Alten Dame’.  He spent the summer working with an insanely talented cast and creative team, and spent so much time in Thun that it felt like his second home.

He returned back to London in the autumn and expanded The Arts Group Limited by adding a small but perfectly formed record label, Arts Records. 

He then travelled to Taiwan for concerts with Mr Watson and Ji Xiaojun and upon returning...

... the only thing that remained for RDCE to do on December 21st, was to get married! And yes, it was to the horn player he met across a crowded orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011...