Huw Warren
Huw Warren (* 1962 ) is a British jazz musician ( piano , organ , cello and accordion ) and composer . Richard Cook and Brian Morton believe that his style incorporates elements of jazz, folk and Welsh church music.
Life
Huw Warren comes from the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, first learned the cello and piano and played in regional clubs in South Wales as a teenager . He later studied at Goldsmiths College and the Guildhall School of Music . He became known in the 1980s through his membership in the formations of June Tabor , the Loose Tubes and the Perfect Houseplants , which he co-founded in 1988. With Stuart Hall , Eddie Parker and Martin France , Hall founded the Hermetologist , who play the music of Hermeto Pascoal . Warren recorded a number of albums under his own name for the label Babel from the end of the 1990s . Contributing musicians were u. a. Mark Lockheart , Steve Argüelles , Mark Feldman , Martin France and Peter Herbert . Warren also worked with Michael Gibbs , Billy Jenkins , Christine Tobin, and Kenny Wheeler .
In 2002 he worked with Welsh singer Lleuwen Steffen , ( God Only Knows (Duw a Wyr) ), using old Welsh hymns from the turn of the century and playing with saxophonist Mark Lockheart. In 2006 he worked with Gee Vaucher on the production of the film Gower Boy . In 2007 he was artistic director of the New Jazz Festival in Llangollen .
In his work as a composer he wrote a. a. for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Choir , as well as the works Riot (for Piano Circus), Steamboat Bill Jnr (new score for a film with Buster Keaton ), New Folk Songs (for Perfect Houseplants and Pamela Thorby), Lullaby Exit Bear and music for a new production of Jean Cocteau 's Monologues at the Lyric Theater in London.
Warren is married to viola player Maria Lamburn and lives in Gwynedd .
Prizes and awards
Warren received the BBC Jazz Award in 2005. In 2013 he was Artist in Residence at the Brecon Jazz Festival , where he performed with Maria Pia De Vito . The album Quercus , together with June Tabor and Iain Ballamy , was awarded the 2013 German Record Critics' Prize.
Discographic notes
- A Barrel Organ Far from Home (Babel, 1997)
- Infinite Riches in a Little Room (Babel, 2001)
- Hundred of Things a Boy Can Make (Babel, 2001)
- Duw A Wyr (God only Knows) (Babel, 2002)
- Everything In Between ( CAM Jazz , 2018)
- Live at Ucheldre, Vol 2 (2020)
Web links
- Portrait at BBC Wales
- Babel Label ( Memento from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warren, Huw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gower Peninsula , Wales |