What have Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Swan Lake, and London’s Millennium Dome got in common?  Meet Patrick Woodroffe, an internationally recognized UK Lighting Designer who, over the last 30 years, has been the lighting designer for a rich variety of projects in the worlds of music, dance, fashion, art and architecture.

			Date:		4 May 2012 Friday
			Time:		6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
			Venue:		3/F, British Council Supreme Court Road, Admiralty
			Language:		English
			Enquiries:		2913 5100
			Registration:		Please click here for online registration. (Registration is required. Seating is available on a first-come-first served basis.)
			Fee		Free of charge

In contemporary music alone, he has been the lighting designer for shows of legendary artists such as The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, The Police, Simon and Garfunkel and The Bee Gees.  He will also provide lighting for the highly-anticipated “Lady Gaga Live in Hong Kong” concert in May.
Don’t miss the chance to hear him speak at the British Council, where he will be sharing his experience of working abroad, relationships with A-list artists and London Olympics 2012.

Biography of Patrick Woodroffe

Patrick Woodroffe is an internationally recognized Lighting Designer working in the worlds of music, dance, fashion, art and architecture.

Woodroffe began his career in lighting in the mid Seventies working primarily with Rock and Roll groups in Europe.In 1980 he moved to the United States and for the next five years lit shows for various artists including Cher, Raquel Welch and Donna Summer in Las Vegas, as well as touring productions for Rod Stewart, Earth, Wind and Fire, Robert Palmer and ABBA, for whom he lit their last concert appearance at the Budokan in Tokyo in 1980. Woodroffe returned to the UK in 1985, lighting many of the seminal names in the rock world. These include among others, groups and singers as diverse as Ozzy Osbourne, Bob Dylan, The Police, Take That, Peter Gabriel, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Genesis, Stevie Wonder, Sarah Brightman and The Bee Gees.