 |
|
        |  |
  
|
People: Stephen Keogh • Marney O'Sullivan The Foundation has a creative panel of highly accomplished musicians and artists. They are well known for their abilities and their service to music and the arts. Chaired by renowned jazz guitarist Dr. Louis Stewart, they come from many different countries around the world. Stephen Keogh Drums, percussion
Julian Argüelles Saxophone/wind
Gilad Atzmon Saxophone/Clarinet
Jan Bradley Contemporary percussion
After studying
at the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy is now one of the leading
bass players in the UK. He has been a regular member of the Peter
King Quartet (with Stephen Keogh and Steve Melling) and of Gerard
Presencer's 'Platypus', and has worked with stars such as Louis
Stewart, Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer etc. Greg Burk Pianist/composer/educator
His career has included work as diverse as a year in the West End as a Musical Director of “Five Guys named Moe”, considerable song-writing success (gold and platinum albums), European Jazz Festivals as a vocalist, pianist and conductor and almost a decade and a half as the British accompanist for the legendary jazz-singer Mark Murphy. Pete is recognised as being at the forefront of European Jazz education and has been on the Faculty of most of the leading Conservatoires in this country. He is also very much in demand abroad and has taught regularly in Australia (Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) the Far East (Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore) and closer to home in Finland at the Sibelius Academy as well as short courses in Bulgaria, France and Italy. All this activity culminated in Pete receiving the 2007 Parliamentary Award for Services to Jazz Education. In addition to being Mark Murphy's regular accompanist Pete is continually in demand as a conductor directing many choirs here and abroad as well as Kenny Wheeler's Big band from time to time. As a singer Pete is a member of both Kenny Wheeler's and Abdullah Ibrahim's Vocal projects. He has also released his own critically aclaimed album, “The Bad and the Beautiful” - recorded with the legendary saxophonist, Bobby Wellins. It has been described as "swinging, musicianly... and refreshingly under-produced" and an example of "singer-pianism at its most intelligent".
Studied Arts
in La Escuela de Artes y oficios in 1979 in Castellón. In
1980 he went on to La Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artísticos
de Valencia to study design.From 1982 to 1987 he studied in la Facultad
de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia, specialising in painting.
This is where he received his degree. Laia Suñé Girona Audiovisual Architect
Nikki Iles, pianist and composer, was a founder-member of the innovative Creative Jazz Orchestra - working with Anthony Braxton, Mike Gibbs, Vince Mendoza and Mark-Anthony Turnage. Her busy freelance career has found her playing with Peter Erskine (CJO), Kenny Wheeler, Art Farmer, Julian Arguelles, Stan Sulzmann, Norma Winstone, Tony Coe, Tina May and Rufus Reid. Her music has been commissioned and performed by influential ensembles such as The London Sinfionetta, The Creative Jazz Orchestra, the London Philharmonic's 'Renga' ensemble and Tim Garland's Underground Orchestra. A committed Educator, Nikki is continually in demand in the UK and abroad. She is a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University and a visiting Professor at The Guildhall School of Music, The Royal Academy and Trinity College of Music. She has also taught throughout Europe and has been a regular visitor to Australia. Nikki has received an IAJE award in America for her services to Jazz and her profile as a performer has been duly recognised here with a British Jazz Award. In addition Nikki was nominated this year for a Parliamentary Jazz Award and two composition fellowships.
Alfred Kramer Drums/Percussion
Moved to Barcelona
from Portland Oregan in 1989 and since his arrival has been prominent
on the music scene there and all over Spain. During his time in
New York he was the guitarist with the legendary organist Jack McDuff.
He made an award winning recording with Ralph La Lama in the early
nineties and continues to be first call for many groups in Spain.
Dave is a highly respected teacher and has worked on seminars in
the past with Kenny Burrell.
Born 1965, started to improvise and play along with records at the age of 3 on the piano and the harpsichord of his parents. Founded his first group at 16, started to compose his first pieces and played many different concerts with this group in Switzerland. Also starts at that time to play more and more in the legendary Zürich Jazzclub „Bazillus“; pianist of the house trio and accompanies many national and international musicians. Franco Ambrosetti, Isla Eckinger, Roman Schwaller, Hans Kennel, Eddie Harris, Ray Anderson, Michael Brecker, Lester Bowie, Sal Nistico, Woody Shaw, Benny Golson, Gil Scott Heron, Joseph Bowie, Aron Neville and so on. Concerts and Tours in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium,Germany, Russia. Stays also more often in New York, where he plays many concerts and sessions with different younger jazz musicians like Chris Cheek, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade, Kurt Rosenwinkel. Played at the North Sea Jazz Festival Den Haag, Montreux Jazz Festival, Estival Jazz Lugano, Pori Jazz Festival Finland, Newport Festival NYC.
|
Stephen
Keogh, born in Ireland. He followed his studies in Ireland with
private lessons in London and New York. He played as percussionist
with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, contemporary music
ensembles and many visiting jazz artists including Sonny Fortune,
Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Jimmy Witherspoon, Pat La Barbera, Louis Stewart
and James Moody.
Born in Dublin, he began his career there working in jazz, rock and theatre as well as with the radio orchestras. He studied in London and Milan, and in 1986 was chosen to play principal timpani for Claudio Abbado in the European Union Youth Orchestra. Soon afterwards he moved to Manchester, where he spent four years as a member of the the Hallé Orchestra percussion section.
Julian
began his career as a musician at the age of fourteen touring throughout
Europe with the European Community Big Band. In 1986 Julian was
awarded the prestigious Pat Smythe award and has also been awarded
several BBC awards. Julian has worked with musicians drawn from
around the world including Archie Shepp, Tim Berne, Hermeto Pascoal,
Steve Swallow, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Peter Erskine, Chris
McGregor, John Scofield and Carla Bley. Julian is also a member
of The Kenny Wheeler Big Band.
Born
in Israel in 1963 Gilad later studied jazz and composition at Rubin
Academy of Music, Jerusalem. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays
clarinet, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone sax as well as instruments
from his native land such as sol, zurna and flutes. Moving to England
to study philosophy he became a member of the Blockheads and has
recorded and performed with artists such as Ian Dury, Robbie Williams,
Sinead O'Connor and Paul McCartney.
Jan Bradley is a member of the highly regarded percussion quartet, 4—MALITY (
Greg
Burk has studied and performed with some of the 
Pete Churchill has been working as a composer, pianist, singer and teacher for twenty years. Originally trained in Canada he has been based in England since 1985. He is a Professor of Jazz Studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London but his freelance work takes him all over the world - both as a performer and an educator.
Born
in Waterford, Ireland. After some time working with local rock and
Irish traditional groups he moved to Dublin. In 1996 Michael began
working regularly with guitarist Louis Stewart, and many visiting
artists such as Ronnie Cuber, Scott Hamilton, Mark Murphy and others.
Best
known throughout Ireland for his rural resettlement program in West
Clare, Jim Connolly has many talents - a sculptor, writer, and former
musician with an undying enthusiasm for jazz.
Kevin
Dean was born in 1954 on a North Iowa farm near Mason City, Iowa.
He graduated from Iowa University with an MA in music in 1976. He
later received his Masters degree from Miami University in Miami
Florida in 1980 in jazz performance and pedagogy.
Renowned for his mature, melodic sound and elegant, lyrical style of writing and playing, guitarist Garrison Fewell has established himself as a distinctive voice throughout his 30-year career. Critics have called him "one of today’s most personal guitar players" (Boston Phoenix), "an assured stylist with a strong sense of tradition" (The New Yorker), "a player of virtuosity and swinging intensity" (UPI), and "refined, passionate, and inspiring" (Guitar Player). As a leader, Garrison has performed at NYC's Blue Note and Birdland Jazz Clubs, and toured in the US, South America, Africa, Caribbean, Canada and Europe. He has played at major jazz festivals such as Montreux, North Sea, Umbria, Clusone, Veneto Jazz, Copenhagen, Krakow, Budapaest, Quebec, Cape Verde, Africa, and Asuncion, Paraguay. He has performed with renowned artists such Tal Farlow, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Billy Harper, John Tchicai, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Steve Grossman, Herbie Hancock, Fred Hersch, Hal Galper, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Buster Williams, Miroslav Vitous, Steve LaSpina, Cameron Brown, Harvie Swartz, Michael Formanek, Tim Hagans, Cecil Bridgewater, Kenny Wheeler, Jimmy Owens, Dusko Goykovich, Khan Jamal, Norma Winstone, Jay Clayton, and Slide Hampton. An internationally respected jazz educator, Fewell has been a Professor of Guitar and Ear Training at Boston’s Berklee College of Music since 1977 and has given clinics at more than 40 prestigious conservatories in Europe alone, authored a textbook called Jazz Improvisation, and served as a lesson contributor to Guitar Player, Guitar Club and Axe magazines.
Born
in Tubingen, Germany in 1946, Heiner Franz became interested in
music at an early age. During his childhood he studied piano and
flute and later, at the age of fourteen, turned his attention to
the guitar, playing regularly with local Dixieland groups.
Felix
Gibbons has been playing percussion for over 20 years now, doing
everything from samba and salsa to bhangra and pop with everyone
from Milton Nascimento, to Peter Gabriel. Over the years he’s
had the opportunity of playing alongside an array of top Brazilian
pop artists like Gilberto Gil, Daniela Mercury, and some of the
great samba stars like Jair Rodrigues and Martinho da Vila. He has
also played with Giovanni Hidalgo, Danilo Perez, Edsel Gomez, Horacio
`El Negro` Fernandez. His Percussion workshops mainly concentrate
on Afro-Brazilian rhythms, especially carnival rhythms from all
over Brazil and also contextualised technique for the Salsa instruments
Conga, Bongo, Timbales, Guiro, Clave and Maraca.
Sandro
began playing guitar as a self-taught musician and then studied
at the Nino Donzelli Centre for Musical Studies in Cremona. Since
1979 he has devoted himself mainly to jazz, meeting other young
musicians from northern Italy, and becoming part of the Gianni Cazzola
Quintet. In the eighties he
Laia
was born in Barcelona in 1976. She qualified as a Technical Architect
at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and also studied
Músic in the Conservatori superior de Música de Barcelona.
She began studying classical piano and became interested in jazz
and improvisation.
Barry studied classical and jazz piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2002. He regularly performs with Ingrid Laubrock, Mark Lockheart, Bobby Wellins Bob Martin and Martin Speake and is a member of Larry Bartley’s trio and octet. Barry has also played with Julian Arguelles, Julian Siegel and US alto sax legend Richie Cole and and recorded with American rhythm section Ben Street and Jeff Williams. As well as working with instrumentalists, he has played with many London-based vocalists such as Rachael Calladine, Lee Gibson, Tina May, Christine Tobim and Anita Wardell. He is a member of Ingrid Laubrock’s award-winning quartet.
Selected performances: 1981-present Professional--Jazz and Commercial Music: Paul Motian, Louis Sclavis, Eberhard Weber, Buddy DeFranco, Charles Macpherson, The Chicago Jazz Ensemble, Liza Minelli, The Spinners, The Temptations, Mitzi Gaynor, Les and Larry Elgart, Tex Benecke, Bobby Vinton, Suzanne Somers, Jimmy Dorsey, Lawrence Welk, and Al Cobine Orchestras; Freelance Jazz Clubs in Europe and the United States, opened concerts with Britt Arts Training Faculty Combo for George Shearing, David Sanborn, and John McGlaughlin 
Born in 1960, Graham studied at the Royal Academy of Music under the watchful eye of James Blades. On leaving London he taught for two years in his home town of Nottingham as a peripatetic percussion tutor before going freelance as a player in 1984. He has worked with many orchestras in the UK, notably with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera North, joining the latter as Sub-Principal Percussion in 1992. He is also the timpanist of ViVA, the Midlands based chamber orchestra.
When Scott Hamilton appeared in the mid-'70s fully formed with an appealing swing style on tenor (mixing together Zoot Sims and Ben Webster), he caused a minor sensation, for few other young players during the fusion era were exploring pre-bop jazz at his high level. He began playing when he was 16 and developed quickly, moving to New York in 1976. Hamilton played with Benny Goodman in the late '70s, but he has mostly performed as a leader, sometimes sharing the spotlight with Warren Vache, Ruby Braff, Rosemary Clooney, the Concord Jazz All-Stars, or George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars. Scott Hamilton, other than a few sessions for Famous Door and Progressive, has recorded a long string of dates for Concord that are notable for their consistency and solid swing.
Frank Harrison was born in Oxford on 8 July
1978. He took up the piano at 11, and began playing gigs when
he was 15. In 1994 he won the soloist award in the Daily Telegraph
Young Jazz Competition, and in 1996 placed second in Young Jazz
Musician Of The Year. After taking up a scholarship at Berklee School
Of Music, Boston, he returned to England and joined Gilad Atzmon's
band. In 2000 they started the Orient House Ensemble, with whom
Frank has recorded four albums on Enja Records, including BBC
Jazz Album Of The Year 2003, "Exile". The band regularly
tours Europe, playing at major Jazz and World music festivals.
Frank has also performed with Peter King, Don Weller, Julian
Siegel, Alan Barnes, John Etheridge and Iain Ballamy.
Jim Hart began playing piano and drums at the age of four. By the time he was eleven he was playing both instruments in the Tamar youth jazz orchestra as well as playing percussion in the Cornwall youth wind orchestra and the C.Y. percussion ensemble.
Born in Kendal, Cumbria and coming from a musical family, Mark originally played electric bass in funk and fusion bands, but aged eighteen was inspired to take up the double bass after seeing The Oscar Peterson Trio featuring Ray Brown.
In 1995 he moved to London to study Double Bass and Electric Bass at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
In late 1998 Mark left London and moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he was based for four years. He returned to the UK in 2002.
Mark has played and recorded with a wide range of musicians, from members of The Police and The Rolling Stones to Paul McCartney, Jamie Cullum, The London Symphony Orchestra and Electronica wizard Matthew Herbert.
Jazz artists Mark has worked with include.... Cedar Walton, Phil Woods, Steve Grossman, Randy Brecker, Larry Coryell, Kenny Wheeler and Greg Osby. Since returning to London Mark has been involved in a diverse range of projects, from film music to Hip Hop and R&B records, he has also been a regular member of Bill Bruford’s ‘Earthworks’, Billy Cobham’s ‘Art Of 5’, The Bill Charlap’s European Trio, Tim Garland’s 'Underground Orchestra'. The Julian Joseph Trio featuring Mark Mondesir and a new band co led by pianist Jason Rebello and drummer Jeremy Stacey.
Aside from his own projects, Duncan has become a popular sideman for a wide variety of artists such as ; Dianna Krall, Mark Murphy, Lester Bowie, Kenny Wheeler, John Hicks, Peter Appleyard, Sam Noto, Ed Bickert, D.D. Jackson, Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache, Sam Rivers, and arrangers Robert Farnon and Ralph Carmichael to name but a few. He was the bassist in the famed Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass for several tours including Brazil and concerts including Carnegie Hall. Duncan has toured extensively throughout Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Brazil and the United States. He can be heard on over forty albums, numerous CBC, BBC and NPR recordings with such groups as The Pat LaBarbera Trio/Quartet, Dianna Krall, Peter Appleyard, Robert Farnon, The Warren Vache Quartet and the The Nikki Iles Trio. He is a reviewer and author for Double Bassist Magasine in the U.K. The upcoming year will see a four part tutor series from Duncan entitled "How to Practise." He has won several awards including the Jazz Du Prix in 1999 from the Montreal Jazz Festival and has been nominated for the Juno’s (Secret), the Durham Music Society’s awards (Snapshots) and was nominated in 2006 for bassist of the year from the National Jazz Awards. Duncan is a visiting professor at The Royal Academy of Music in London.
Val
Keogh is a musician and teacher of the Alexander Technique which
he has been teaching for the last ten years at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule
and in private practice.
Peter
King, in the words of one critic, “the finest alto saxophonist
that Britain has ever produced, and one of the finest in the world
today” (Dave Gelly, 'The Giants of Jazz', Aurum Press, 1986),
has been a major influence on the British Jazz scene ever since
he played, (at the age of eighteen!), the opening of RONNIE SCOTT'S,
London's internationally famous jazz Mecca. “Had Ronnie Scott's
Club died over night and been heard of no more it could still have
justified its existence by pointing to a discovery like Peter King.”
(Benny Green, 'Jazz Decade, ten years at Ronnie Scott's', King's
Road Publishing Ltd. 1969).
Born
1965 in Switzerland, he started playing drums at the age of sixteen
after having studied piano for nine years. He started performing
with his brother Lukas (pianist) and sister Hilaria (trumpet player).
Since 1986, after moving to Italy, he 
Born
in Castellon, Spain. He studied with Joe Pass and Richie Beirach.
Fernando is founder/director or TALLER-3 music school in Castellon,
Spain. He is also joint founder of production company "CD Mar
SL" organising seminars and producing 
Tina has released 8 albums on 33 Records and 1 on Linn Records . She has recently recorded and performed in New York with the legendary pianist Ray Bryant ( who has played with Betty Carter , Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and numerous other jazz stars). Tina is also a respected lyricist and is in constant demand as a teacher and clinician.She has lectured at Trinity College of Music, Leeds College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Academy of Music, Clonter Opera Trust and many other institutions. See 
Ian
McLaren is Marketing Director of the Global Music Foundation. A
veteran of the London advertising, marketing and sponsorship industry,
he served as account and client services director in top agency
groups such as Saatchi & Saatchi and FCB Park as well as heading
up sales promotion operations for ad agencies Ted Roose & Partners
and Collett Dickenson Pearce. He worked as Managing Director of
HMG Sports Events & Licensing, the Saatchi sponsorship consultancy,
until 1990, when he moved over into the not-for-profit sector, applying
his skills as Director of Corporate Development for both the National
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the
Multiple Sclerosis Society. During a four-year stint in Silicon
Valley he was Deputy Director of Villa Montalvo, California’s
Historic Estate for the Arts, where his love of jazz led him to
connect with leading figures in the San Francisco jazz world. In
1998 he created “Desert Island Jazz” for KCSM Jazz 91,
the SF Bay Area’s jazz station. He went on to produce and
co-present the weekly programme, featuring interviews with the world’s
top jazz artists until he left the US in 2000. The programme was
voted San Francisco’s Best Radio Show by SF Weekly in 2004.
Aidan
studied Jazz bass at Birmingham Conservatoire from 1999-2003. After
finishing his degree, he moved back to Scotland where he joined both
the Tommy Smith Quartet and the Colin Steele Quintet. He moved to
London in November 2003, where he joined Alan Skidmore's Quartet,
and began freelancing with a wide variety of musicians. He has performed
with visiting artists such as Dave Binney, Charles McPherson and David
Berkman, and appeared on 6 albums as a sideman
Welsh poet Richard Douglas Pennant came to Cyprus in the 1970s as a charity worker and settled in Limassol. Although he has written poetry since adolescence, he has applied a systematic and mature approach to his creative passion only recently. Always inspired by the rugged Welsh landscape and particularly the tales and legends of the Celtic deities, Cyprus has offered inspiration from the Hellenic world, the richness of the myths and the civilization of ancient Greece. Human relationships, the power of love and friendship, and the beauty of the ordinary experiences of life, all play a part in his writing. Since publishing his first collection of poems, Old Stones New Tales in 2004, he has been engaged in performances with musicians ranging from the Allegri and Danel String Quartets to traditional musicians such as Ross Daly and Abdullah Chhadeh, touring festivals, art centres and music clubs in the UK, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands and Italy, Germany and China with the Frank Harrison Trio and the Global Music Foundation.
Jason Rebello was voted Most Promising Newcomer of the Year for 1988 in Wire magazine and then picked up several major Jazz Awards including the prestigious Pat Smythe award and The Perrier British Jazz Awards. Apart from leading his own trio, he has appeared in the past with notable artistes such as Bud Shank, Wayne Shorter, Gary Burton, Branford Marsalis, Tommy Smith, Jean Toussaint, Desree, Mica Paris, Carleen Anderson and Omar as well as promoting his own band. He also performed several classical concerts, appearing with the Nice Symphony Orchestra and the Halle Orchestra in 1995. 
Guillermo Rozenthuler
is an accomplished singer, guitarist and composer from Argentina
who has relocated to London after a more than a decade performing
the length and breadth of South America. He is a member of the award
winning band "Orient House Ensemble". This year at WOMAD
he will be presenting material from his latest release, ‘The
Blue Hour’. Guillermo is one of the most in-demand voice coaches
and activists on the London Latin scene.
Born
into a musical family Pianist Edward Simon grew up in the coastal
town of Cardon, Venezuela. He moved to the United States in 1984
to study classical music and by the time he was in his late teens
he was travelling the world as a sideman to prominent jazz and Latin
musicians.
Arnie
Somogyi is one of the UK's busiest bassists and has played on over
30 albums. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians from rising
stars Amy Winehouse and Jamie Cullum to Charlie Watts, John Martyn
and jazz legends Stan Tracey and Annie Ross.
Born
in Waterford, Ireland, guitarist Louis Stewart began playing jazz
in the early 60s. By the end of the decade he had achieved a substantial
reputation through work with such leading jazzmen as Tubby Hayes
and Benny Goodman. Throughout the 70s he continued to enhance his
standing in both the UK and the USA, playing and recording with
Ronnie Scott, Don Burrows, George Shearing and others. He also toured
Europe, attracting considerable attention everywhere he played.
An award winning composer, he has written a number of pieces based
on the works of James Joyce, several of which appeared on the albums
Milesian Source and Joycenotes.
Luciano
Vida graduated from the University of Languages and Oriental Literature,
Venice in 2002. Later that year he visited China and the city of
Kunming in the province of Yunnan where he studied under Master
Guo Jungo (20th generation of the family Chen of Taijiquan).
Born
in Stockport, Manchester 1970. Studied music at Salford University
and Guildhall, London. Lived and worked in London eight years playing
jazz with NYJO, Peter King, Don Weller, Denys Baptiste, Jazz Jamaica
All Stars, Gary Crosby’s Nu-Troop. Also worked as session
musician for Brand New Heavies, Supergrass, Lighthouse Family, Alison
Moyet, Will Young, Rhiann Benson. Became involved in Celtic and
traditional music scenes working with giants Michael McGoldrick,
Kate Rusby, John McCusker, Karen Matheson(Caperceille), Karen Tweed,
Jon Jo Kellie. Formed band "e2K" influenced by jazz, English
folksong, Irish melodies and rhythms from Ghana (West Africa) which
secured a 2-album deal with Topic Records, London (available now!)
Currently lectures in jazz trumpet and improvisation at Birmingham
Conservatoire and Salford University.
Born in 1963 in Genoa, Italy, Aldo started to play double bass at age 17, having played the piano and guitar for six years. He quickly became very in-demand and started to work all over Italy, as well as in France, Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, Croatia and Slovenia. He has peformed all over the world with many great musicians including: Franco D'Andrea, Enrico Rava, Pietro Tonolo, Paolo Fresu, Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Chambers, Gary Bartz, Sweets Edison, Clark Terry, Ben Riley, Kenny Burrell, Lester Bowie, Junior Mance, Cedar Walton, Nat Adderley, Clifford Jordan, Horace Parlan and many others. Zunino has been Steve Grossman's bassist since 1995. He now lives in Genoa, where he has been teaching for the last twelve years.