About

Initially conceived by Sachiko, Kuroda has been entirely created by our team of four

SACHIKO HIGUCHI Scriptwriter/Lyricist
Creative Team

Michael Pearce, Sachiko, Alison Lynn, Ian Stuart Lynn

About Us

SACHIKO HIGUCHI: comes from Fukuoka on the southern island of Kyushu. She came to England in 1977, is married to an Englishman, and worked in the City for Nomura Int’l, Chase Manhattan Investment Group and Mitsubishi Bank, until she started a family in 1990.

Since then she has pursued her interest in Japanese culture and history, tea ceremony, kendo (Japanese fencing), ikebana (flower arrangement) and koto Japanese harp) and works as a Japanese/English translator for local authorities. She lives in Surrey with an eclectic collection of traditional Japanese musical instruments, sings regularly in a local choir and a music group, and is a member of the international Women's Club. Sachiko is passionate about Japanese costume and particularly kimono and obi.

IAN STUART LYNN (MA): performing in London's West End as a jazz pianist whilst still in his teens he rose to prominence as a musician during the seventies when he became a Musical Director for singer Barbara Dickson. He produced the cast album for the original and great Ken Hill 'Phantom of the Opera', and last year's musical 'Dracula'. Ian has worked as composer with Tim Rice, Don Black and Richard Stilgoe, the world's best-known show lyricists, and orchestrated for television 'Blood Brothers' hits for Willy Russell, with the Liverpool Philharmonic and Hallè Orchestras.

He divides his time between writing scores for TV and film, and working with many stars of musical theatre including Rebecca Storm, Gary Wilmot, Barbara Dickson, Elaine Paige and Michael McCarthy, as well as Dame Edna Everage. Film credits have included Sweet Talker (Taylor Hackford), The Clandestine Marriage (Sir Nigel Hawthorn) and one of 2006's Royal Premiere films, These Foolish Things, starring Lauren Bacall, Angelica Houston and Terence Stamp. In TV he has scored ever genre of programme, from the Great Railway Journeys series, to the TV feature film Bravo Two Zero.

ALISON TAYLOR (B.mus ARCM): trained in composition/viola at the Royal College of Music with Bernard Stevens, Anthony Milner and Frederick Riddle, and went straight from there to the BBC as a sound engineer. She was promoted to World Service Radio producer and presenter, thence moving into record production, with two Top Ten Chart hits and a nomination for the Gramophone Awards for a collection of Verdi Arias with American soprano Carol Vaness. She produced albums for Mariss Jansens and Edward Downes, and also worked with composers Dominic Muldowney, Michael Kamen and Johnathan Harvey. After leaving the corporation to go freelance she worked as Music Consultant to BBC TV and sat on the Judging panel for Choirgirl of the Year, Alison collaborates regularly with Ian Stuart Lynn, scoring and studio producing his orchestral work.

MICHAEL PEARCE (FCCA, CTA(Fellow), FCIS): trained in the accountancy profession and subsequently worked in investment banking and taxation before becoming a European Partner for a leading global Employee Benefits consultancy. He is currently an adviser to KPMG.

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