He is the Choirmaster and Director of Chapel Music at Marlborough College, where he leads the aspiring and diverse programme of choral music; he directs the four choirs at the College, and the strong Marlborough College Choral Society and Orchestra.
From a young age, he became inspired by choral music, leading him to his first professional post as a musician, holding a Choral Scholarship at St Edmundsbury Cathedral where he also began to learn the organ under David Humphreys.
He graduated from the University of Leeds with an honours degree in Music, and the University of Buckingham with a Postgraduate Certificate of Education. Whilst at Leeds, he conducted the University Chamber Orchestra in his final year, and directed a vocal consort to win the University of Leeds Chamber Music Competition. As a composer he began writing music from a very young age, and has continued to do so throughout his life.
Meehan-Staines' compositions developed after his undergraduate degree when he studied for a Master's Degree in composition with Professors John Pickard and Emma Hornby at the University of Bristol. Earliest experiences came from folk music while growing up in Scotland. His career began as a performing musician. Alma Deutscher, born , began playing the piano at the age of two and the violin at the age of three. At the age of six she composed her first piano sonata, a year later she wrote the short opera "The Sweeper of Dreams".
Deutscher composed a violin concerto and a piano concerto between the ages of 9 and The opening concert of the Carinthian Summer Festival was dedicated to the premiere of these two concertos, with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and with Deutscher as soloist on violin and piano. Deutscher's first major opera "Cinderella" was performed in Vienna in under the patronage of Zubin Mehta, and was received with enthusiasm by the public and the critics.
