Henry moved to the UK from Australia in 2012. Since then, he has worked regularly as a musical director and pianist on a range of productions, ranging from U.K. tours to off-West End and fringe shows, to concerts at the London Palladium and Cadogan Hall. He also works regularly as an orchestrator and arranger, from solo vocal arrangements, to full musical band orchestration. 

Currently, Henry is touring the UK with Blood Brothers as Assistant Musical Director / Keys II.

He has been nominated for two Off-West End Award ‘Offies’ for Best Musical Director for his work on Brass and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Union Theatre. He was also nominated for a BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Musical Direction for Brass. Further professional credits can be found here.

Henry works frequently as an audition pianist for West End shows, U.K. Tours, and regional productions. Additionally, he works with actors and singers as an audition coach, providing services from one-on-one repertoire sessions, to recording live accompaniments for voice reels.

He is also the musical director and co-producer for In The Wingsa series of human interest interviews with composers, writers, and creatives of shows that have been recently postponed. Initially created during London’s first lockdown in 2020, In the Wings was a four-episode mini-series, and featured the first live performances with a West End cast in a theatre since the West End closed. Since then, the series has expanded to sixteen episodes, watched by over 150,000 viewers, and can be found on YouTube for free

Henry Brennan as Musical Director in rehearsals.