Elliot Galvin
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
- Web presence
- Interview (2018)
- Elliot Galvin at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Lord of the Hidden Objects (SWR2) ( Memento from March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ JazzFacts: The Pianist and Composer Elliot Galvin , January 28, 2016
- ↑ Review ( Jazzthing 122/2018)
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SURNAME | Galvin, Elliot |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz musician (piano, composition) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |