Chamber
Monday 16 April : 8pm
£10.00 : £8.00 concessions : seated
Nick Tyson: acoustic guitars
Charlotte Glasson: violin
Ruth Gibson: viola
Kate Shortt: cello
Paul Baxter: double bass
Sebastian Hankins: drums / percussion
‘Chamber’ is a new acoustic jazz project by guitarist/composer Nick Tyson, which has received a Performing Rights Society Foundation for New Music (PRSF) ‘New Works’ Award, and is commissioned by the influential London based F-IRE Collective.
Featuring members of ‘The Leisure Society’, ‘Eyes Shut Tight’, ‘Finzi Quartet, ‘Gentleman’s Dub Club’ and ‘If Destroyed Still True’ to name a few – this eclectic line up is molded by Tyson’s writing to create captivating and thoughtful music.
Influences from classical chamber, folk and middle-eastern traditions are explored within Tyson’s delicate writing to produce an exciting new voice for British music. The compositions showcase the ensemble moving seamlessly through richly textured sound-scapes, melodic string passages and intricate grooves, from stripped back minimalism to full on solos.
The project will be launched in April 2012 with an initial tour, before recording a debut album set for release in late 2012. The premiere performance will take place in London at the Vortex on the 13th April 2012, followed by a series of concerts across the UK.
Nick Tyson
Nick Tyson is a guitarist, composer and music educator within the Jazz and popular music fields, graduating with a 1st class honors degree from Leeds College of Music in 2007.
Specializing in performance and composition, he gained numerous awards, notably the ‘Eric Kershaw Memorial Award for Plectrum Guitar’. In the same year, Nick was recognised by Yamaha, Jazzwise and the parliamentary awards for jazz as winner of the first ‘Outstanding Jazz Musician Scholarship Award’.
Since graduating, Nick continued to work around the North of England, collaborating in fruitful projects such as ‘If Destroyed Still True’, currently hailed as one of the most exciting young jazz groups to emerge from the UK in recent years, and touring extensively with 9-piece reggae/dub band ‘Gentleman’s Dub Club’.
Now based in London, he continues to grow as a performer, composer and educator of music, and is currently pursuing his work with IDST & GDC, as well as developing new projects such as Halcyon Quartet and “Chamber” a new acoustic ensemble featuring strings.
www.nicktyson.co.uk
Charlotte Glasson
Equally at home playing jazz, classical music, blues, soul, funk, latin, country and everything in between Charlotte is busy on the music scene. She has also composed music for an Art Installation at The Ashmoleon museum in Oxford with Chinese Artist Qu Lei Lei, and music for theatre performances by George Dillon. She has played all over the world including The Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Thailand International festival, Holland, Ronnie Scott’s, jazz festivals in the UK and Europe.
Ruth Gibson
Ruth is from Dublin and began studying the violin aged five with Maria Keleman and later with Ronald Masin, transferring her studies to viola at the age of 11.
In 2005, Ruth began her degree at the Royal Northern College of Music and was the recipient of an RNCM Entrance Award. In 2007, she won first prize in the RNCM Viola Competition and the Nossek Chamber music prize with the Roberts String Quartet.
As member of the Finzi Quartet, she has performed across Europe and 2010 saw the Quartet’s debut at both the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room to critical acclaim.
Kate Shortt
Kate Shortt studied at Guildhall school of music as an undergraduate and postgraduate in cello, and additional jazz studies in singing/piano.
Her work has spanned a variety of idioms and genres including pop/jazz/contemporary classical and theatre. She is part of a European trio based in Austria, ‘Line 3′ and has premiered concerto especially written for her ‘Towards the Wind’ by Austrian composer Norbert Zehm. She is a member of the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra.
Sebastian Hankins
In demand London drummer Sebastian has played on various film/Tv soundtracks, and has performed on two Ivor Novello nominated singles, and an Itunes and Rough Trade album of the year.
Sebastian is currently touring with both The Leisure Society and Jonathan Jeremiah, and endorses Mapex Drums and Protection Racket Cases.
Paul Baxter
Double bassist heavily involved with a number of projects – mainly the Jazz Trio ‘Eyes Shut Tight’ where he is the main artistic contributor. The Trio were finalists in the ‘European Jazz Contest’ held in Rome where Paul was awarded best soloist 2011. Paul also runs ’5 Pieces Of Silver’ that works periodically with Alto saxophonist Alan Barnes and also with First Word Records ‘Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra’.
www.paulbaxtermusic.com
