Allan Dumbreck is a musician and educator with over 30 years' experience of the music industries. As a keyboard player with a number of Scottish acts, including the Big Dish, he has performed and recorded internationally, supporting, amongst others, BB King. As a music educator he has developed a series of university and college music programmes, teaching across the UK and Europe and is behind a group of initiatives which include the international music exchanges at the University of West of Scotland where he leads the BA (Hons) Commercial Music. He is the co-author of Music Entrepreneurship published by Methuen Drama and the editor of the Music Education Directory previously published by the BPI and UK Music.