Elliot Galvin

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Elliot Galvin (2016)

Elliot Galvin (* 1991 in London ) is a British jazz musician ( piano , synthesizer , kalimba , microtonal melodica , accordion , stylophone , composition).

Live and act

Galvin, who heard music by Karlheinz Stockhausen , Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter with his mother as a toddler , improvised on a neighbor's piano at the age of six before taking lessons. He studied at Trinity College of Music in London with Liam Noble ; then he completed a master's degree in composition. The multi-instrumentalist plays in the Elliot Galvin Trio with bassist Tom McCredie and drummer Simon Roth. He also worked in the Chaos Collective, which he co-founded, and in the Dinosaur jazz ensemble . In the Duo Ex Nihilo he works with saxophonist Binker Golding . He can also be heard on albums by Laura Jurd and Mark Sanders .

Due to his pianistic and compositional intelligence, his creativity touching the surreal , his wit, political awareness and his respectful and irreverent handling of tradition, critics compared him several times with Django Bates .

Prizes and awards

With the Elliot Galvin Trio he won the European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award in 2014 . In 2015 the trio was nominated for the Parliamentary Jazz Award as a newcomer. The album Together, As One was nominated for the 2017 Mercury Music Prize . He has written commissioned compositions, for example for the London Sinfonietta .

Discographic notes

  • Dreamland (Chaos Collective, 2013)
  • The Elliot Galvin Trio Punch (Edition Records, 2016)
  • Dinosaur Together, As One (Edition Records, 2016)
  • The Influencing Machine (Edition Records, 2018)
  • Modern Times (Edition Records, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lord of the Hidden Objects (SWR2) ( Memento from March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ JazzFacts: The Pianist and Composer Elliot Galvin , January 28, 2016
  3. ↑ Review ( Jazzthing 122/2018)
personal data
SURNAME Galvin, Elliot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH London