Huw Warren Piano, Tori Freestone flute, Yuri Goloubev bass, Andrew Bain drums
‘Music for the head, heart and feet!”
Celebrating Choro, the vibrant beating heart of Brazilian music, Choro Choro Choro explores music from the 1880's to the present day by composers such as Ernesto Nazareth, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Pixinguinha, and modern masters such as Guinga and Hermeto Pascoal,as well as newly commissioned pieces by Huw Warren. By turns virtuoso, lyrical, and naively sentimental - Choro Choro Choro will bring new twists on this great dance music and is guaranteed to leave you smiling!
Huw Warren has created several previous projects around the music of Brazil, including collaborations with Jovino Santos Neto, a critically acclaimed recording of Hermeto's music (Hermeto+) in 2009, A trio record for CAM Jazz Everything in Between in 2019 and Core Coracao from 2017 with Maria Pia de Vito, Gabriele Mirabassi, Roberto Taufic, and the legendary Chico Buarque.
Choro Choro Choro features an international line up including Anglo/Spanish flautist Tori Freestone, virtuoso Russian bassist Yuri Goloubev and Scottish drummer Andrew Bain!
*** Early booking recommended
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EVENT INFO
Evening Performance 8pm to 10.20pm
The event is at the Performing Arts Studio at the University of Surrey.
Doors open from 7.15pm. Please note there are no physical tickets, just give your name on the door when you arrive. There’s a bar available beforehand and at the interval.
Tickets: General admission £20 (Guildford Jazz members £18). Students £10
If you have any questions please contact us by emailing info@guildfordjazz.org.uk
TICKETS
General admission £20
Guildford Jazz Members £18
Students £7
All prices include booking fees
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WHO'S PLAYING?
“Finally, a special word for Huw Warren’s solo interpretation of Hermeto’s Mente Clara (clear mind), whose emotive, sustained and lush harmonies, combined with pellucid runs, are delivered so affectingly. Words, on this occasion, cannot do it justice”. London Jazz News
“Apart from the joyful pleasure it created in abundance, this concert was a powerful argument for our learning to think and talk purely in terms of ‘music’ and ‘musicians’ rather than jazz or classical music or, indeed, Brazilian music….Glyn Pursglove
Huw Warren
Welsh pianist and composer Huw Warren has achieved an international reputation for innovative and eclectic music making over a thirty year career. Equally at home crossing the often exclusive worlds of Jazz, World and Contemporary music; he has a distinctive and personal voice, and has collaborated with a huge variety of artists worldwide
Huw has recorded 2 albums for ECM (as Quercus with June Tabor and Iain Ballamy) and in 2018 released a solo piano recording Nocturnes and Visions. In 2019 he released 2 albums for Italian label CAM Jazz Everything in Between (with Dudley Phillips and Zoot Warren) and New Day (with Mark Lockheart) His previous albums and projects have included themes and source material as diverse as John Dowland, Plainchant and Hermeto Pascoal. In 2023/2024 he will release two new projects including a new solo piano recording of Choro and a recording of Plygain arrangements with Angharad Jenkins.
His writing style combines quirky rhythmic grooves with simple melodic beauty; and manages to be both complex and approachable.
His best known projects include Dialektos (duo with Italian singer Maria Pia de Vito) Hermeto+ (A reworking of the music of Hermeto Pascoal with drummer Martin France and bassist Peter Herbert) 100s of Things a Boy Can Make (with NY violinist Mark Feldman) Infinite Riches in a Little Room (a solo piano set centred around a beautiful reworking of a melody by John Dowland) Perfect Houseplants (Huw Warren, Mark Lockheart, Dudley Phillips, Martin France), A Barrel organ Far From Home (a nine piece mixed line up with strings and penny whistle) and a long standing collaboration with singer June Tabor. He has also performed and collaborated with a wide array of musicians including Mark Feldman, Peter Herbert, Joanna Macgreggor, Iain Ballamy, Kenny Wheeler, Jim Black, Theo Bleckmann , Neil Yates, Pamela Thorby, Mose Se Fan Fan, Mat Maneri and Thomas Strønen .
Awarded the BBC Jazz award for Innovation, and the ACW Creative Wales Award, he has also written for many ensembles including Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Welsh Chamber Orchestra, RSC, LPO Renga ensemble, National Youth Brass Band of Wales, The Orlando Consort, Ensmble Plus, Koch Ensemble and Tango Siempre. Recently he has further broadened his collaborative pool to work with spoken word artists, visual artists, filmmakers, choreographers and photographers.
Currently a jazz lecturer/tutor at RWCMD,Cardiff, Huw is also head of Jazz Ensembles at Cardiff University.
Tori Freestone
Saxophonist, flautist and Ivor Novello Award winning composer Tori Freestone has performed with Internationally renowned players from the world of jazz, folk and world music including world renowned Brazilian composer and multi instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, Cleo Laine/Dankworth Band, world renowned Arabic vocalist Natacha Atlas, Yazz Ahmed, (featuring on her album Polyhymnia), Ivo Neame Quintet and Octet working alongside musicians including Iain Ballamy, Stan Sulzman, Jasper Hoiby, Jami Cullum, Andy Sheppard and Jason Yarde. She also currently plays with many large ensembles including the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra, Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra, Zoe Rahman Octet and holds the tenor 1 chair in the London Jazz Orchestra.
As a bandleader she has featured at jazz clubs and festivals worldwide including Cuba, Reykjavik, Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with recordings/interviews for Jazz FM, Radio 3, Radio 2, Radio Bremen (Germany), ORF (Austria National Radio) and Jazz Canarias (Spain).
She won an Ivor Novello Award for Jazz ensemble composition in 2022 for a track on the soon to be released duo album with pianist Alcyona Mick and her recent trio release was 'Jazz Album of the Month' in the Guadian 2019. Commissions include the 2014 EFG London Jazz Festival which was performed at the QEH supporting Henry Texier and she was shortlisted for the 2017 Arts Foundation Award for Jazz Composition and the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year 2017 plus awarded PRS funding and the Help Musician's Transmission fund, Do it Differently and Record and Release Awards in 2020.
As an educator she has performed workshops for the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Welsh College of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Leeds Conservatoire, Kingston University, Falmouth University and Truro College, and has lectured at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Middlesex University and Trinity Laban. She is currently Professor in Jazz Performance and Jazz composition at Leeds Conservatoire, visiting lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and tutors for the National Youth Jazz Collective alongside some of the UK's finest musicians including Soweto Kinch, Norma Winstone
Tori is a Borgani artist (Italy)
"Freestone has clearly listened widely, but her musicality and broad experiences have stirred all that input into an imposingly original sound", John Fordham, The Guardian 4 * review
“a flute and reeds player of nicely sinuous melodic invention” – The Telegraph
I really dig her; she’s so organic..She sounds very relaxed, but she’s got a real burn to her playing ...my ears never get tired", Ingrid Jensen' 'Artist Choice' Article Jazz Times, USA
Andrew Bain
Head of Jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music, Andrew is one of the leading performers and educators in Europe having performed with luminaries such as Wynton Marsalis, Natalie Cole, Kenny Wheeler, Randy Brecker, John Taylor, NDR Big Band, Dave Liebman and Bob Mintzer, including a New York residency.
He has performed across the UK, Europe and America, including performing and conducting at the BBC Proms. He has had professional ties with institutions across the world, having been artist-in-residence at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia (2019) and the University of Stavanger, Norway. He was visiting Jazz tutor to both the Conservatorio di Musica Vincenzo Bellini di Palermo, Sicily (2016 & 2017), and the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria (2019). Andrew is also director of Summer Jazz Camp Scotland with the first course running this August.
Andrew has a number of his own projects in action at the moment: Player Piano (2015) with Mike Walker, Gwilym Simcock, Iain Dixon, and Steve Watts; Embodied Hope (Whirlwind Recordings 2017) with George Colligan, Jon Irabagon, and Michael Janisch; and his latest project – (no)boundaries (Whirlwind Recordings 2020) – a free improv exploration featuring Peter Evans, Alex Bonney, and John O’Gallagher released in March 2020. His latest project, Mosvatnet, features Angelica Sanchez, John O’Gallagher, Tori Freestone and Per Zanussi.
Yuri Goloubev
For sure, one of the greatest of contemporary jazz bassists.- Ian Patterson, All About Jazz, May 2020
One of the most interesting and sought-after jazz double bassists in Europe, Yuri Goloubev has toured nearly 60 countries across continents appearing at such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Barbican Centre in London, Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonie, Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris and festivals as Montreux Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz, London Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz, Festival of Perth, Jazzahead, Boheme Jazz – to name just a few. His collaborations include various household names – Bob James, Till Brönner, Kenny Werner, Ralph Towner, Billy Kilson, Julian Arguelles, Norma Winstone, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Pieranunzi, Gwilym Simcock, Pablo Held, Tim Garland, Rosario Giuliani, Rick Margitza and others.
A multi-award winner (1st prize in the All-Soviet Union Student Competition, New Names Scholarships, Honoured Artist Title granted by President Putin), Yuri has participated as leader, co-leader or sideman in well over 100 albums to date, released by SONY, EMI, ACT, Universal, Basho and many more. Some of these records have been used by British Airways, Swiss, Lufthansa, Emirates, Air France for their inflight entertainment programs.
A Moscow Conservatory graduate (1995), he has been serving as Principal Bass of the famed Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra directed by Yuri Bashmet for nearly 13 years, when in 2004 he decided to move to Milan and dedicate himself entirely to his jazz career. This switch from performing at the world’s most important classical venue for many years with the likes of Rostropovich and Richter, Galway and Quasthoff and recording for EMI and SONY Classical (including a Grammy nominated album), to reaching the same top level in jazz music made Yuri Goloubev a true rarity and exception in the music world.
DIRECTIONS
Performing Arts Studio (PATS), University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH
There’s a large car park along the perimeter road – drive straight on at the roundabout once you get on campus and it’s signposted on the left after a little way. Parking is free after 5pm and if you require a disabled parking bay please let us know.
The Performing Arts Studio is building 20 on the map . There’s a footpath that runs from the perimeter road between the AQA and Austin Pearce Building (buildings 4 and 5) – turn right at the top, over the mini roundabout, and the PATS studio is along the road on the left.
SEATING
Seating is unreserved, please select your seats when you arrive.