Colin Somervell
Colin Somervell is as happy performing melodic free improvisation or playing in neo rembetica bands (Trio Tekke) and is also in demand as a free jazz musician.
Colin Somervell is as happy performing melodic free improvisation or playing in neo rembetica bands (Trio Tekke) and is also in demand as a free jazz musician.
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Benedict Taylor is a leading figure within contemporary composition, modern string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. The central focus of his work is in new composition for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and electro-acoustic composition. In performance, he predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music.
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Roger Turner has been working as an improvising percussionist since the early 1970’s, collaborating in numerous established and ad hoc configurations.
Alex Ward is a composer, improviser and performing musician (primarily on clarinet and guitar) based in London. He leads various ensembles under the heading of the Item Series to perform his compositions for improvising musicians, and he is a member of many other groups including legendary rock band Pere Ubu.
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Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century.
Veryan Weston is best-known for his work with such British musicians as saxophonist Lol Coxhill, vocalist Phil Minton and Trevor Watts who he is still working with in the ‘Dialogues’ duo as well as their current trio – ‘Eternal Triangle’ having recently released two CDs - “Gravity” and in Netherlands “Moving On”.
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Stuart Wilding is an improvising percussionist, playing a mixture of junk percussion, lap harp and cello. He is active in several current collaborations: Ghost Mind, Longstone, Lo-fi Ensemble, Mike Adcock duo, Pete Robson duo, Professori Sognare, Madrona, the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra and Chris Cundy’s Speed Hobby. He currently runs the Lo-fi Improvised music Workshops in Camberwell. In the past he has worked in a number of smaller improvising ensembles and with the Flying Down Trio, Hither Green Drone Orchestra and Makeshift. He was also a performer and musician with the Hand in Glove Performance Group.
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Julian Woods is a guitarist, bassist and composer based in London, currently studying a postgraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music.