KIT DOWNES
KIT DOWNES TRIO – KIT DOWNES (piano), CALUM
GOURLAY (bass), JAMES MADDREN (drums)
2008
BBC JAZZ AWARD WINNER "RISING STAR"
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After
attending the Purcell School of Music, Kit is now studying at
the Royal Academy of Music (where he is taught by Tom Cawley).
Kit plays regularly with the award-winning Empirical, Troyka,
The Golden Age of Steam, Martin Speake, James Allsopp, Asaf
Sirkis, Zhenya Strigalev and Clark Tracey - and has played with
Joe Locke, Seb Rochford, Gilad Atzmon, Gerard Presencer, Stan
Sulzmann, Jeff Williams and Eugene Skeef. He has also performed
with leading British bands Fraud, Asaf Sirkis’ Inner Noise,
Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble, Acoustic Ladyland,
Nostalgia 77, 2000 Black, Silhouette Brown and Dennis Rollins’
Badbone and Co. He has also worked with up and coming Composer
/ Songwriter Micachu, with whom he recorded in Abbey Road for
Matthew Herbert, recorded for BBC Radio 6 and played at the
Sonar Music Festival ’07 in Barcelona. Kit’s work
with Empirical has taken him to The North Sea Jazz Festival,
The JVC Festivals in New York, Montreal and Newport, and Vancouver
Jazz Festival. Empirical won ‘Best Album of the Year 2007’
in Jazzwise and the EBU Award at the North Sea Festival. Kit
also won the BBC ‘Rising Star’ Award in 2008.
Kits own trio features Calum Gourlay on bass (Tommy Smith, Martin
Speake, Tom Cawley) and James Maddren on drums (Marc Copland,
Stan Sulzmann, NYJO) - performing original music inspired by
influences ranging from Bela Bartok to Keith Jarrett to Rufus
Wainwright.
"a breathtaking improviser, and weaver of magical piano soundscapes, Kit Downes is world class" - Helen Mayhew, Jazz FM
"an exceptional talent" - Stuart Nicholson, The Observer Music Monthly 2009
'A very skilled and fluid pianist, Downes is not only bursting with fresh ideas but has that rare ability to carry them off."
- Selwyn Harris, Jazzwise
www.kitdownes.com
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