Issie Barratt

Issie Barratt (born November 29, 1964 ) is a British composer and baritone saxophonist , best known for her works for big bands and her contributions to academic jazz education .

Act

Barratt built the jazz faculty at Trinity College of Music in 1999 , which she headed until 2004. She is now committed to the college as a Senior Fellow . She has led ensembles at this institution, but also the Conservatoires UK Big Band since 2003. In 2006, she founded the National Youth Jazz Collective , which she still heads today. She is also the artistic director of the National Youth Jazz Summer School . Barrett also led projects at the Royal Academy of Music , the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Royal College of Music . She also participated in jazz research with publications .

Barratt has performed composition commissions for the Philharmonia Orchestra , The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , Bohuslän Big Band, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, The PRS Foundation for New Music, Delta Sax Quartet, 4th Dimension String Quartet, Voice of the North, North Cheshire Wind Orchestra, Vortex Foundation Big Band, Trinity College of Music's Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Conservatoires UK Big Band and Youth Music.

In 2014 she was named “Jazz Educator of the Year” at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards .

Discographic notes

Issie Barratt's Meinrad Iten Suite Songs: 11 musical settings of paintings by Meinrad Iten (Fuzzy Moon, 2011; with Rowland Sutherland, Mick Foster, Mark Donlon)
Astral Pleasures (Fuzzy Moon, 2008)

Under other names

Jaqee & Bohuslän Big Band: Letter to Billie (2008; Title: Strange Fruit )
Delta Saxophone Quartet: Dedicated to You ... But You Weren't Listening: The Music of Soft Machine (Moonjune Records 2007; Title: Somehow with the Passage of Time )
Vortex Foundation Big Band Charybdis (2004; Title: Show Time)
Jools Holland The Full Complement (2003, as an instrumentalist)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Brief portrait of All About Jazz
↑ Interview with Issie Barratt . LondonJazz News. Retrieved March 20, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Barratt, Issie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz musician (composition, baritone saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1964

[1] Brief portrait of All About Jazz

[2] Interview with Issie Barratt . LondonJazz News. Retrieved March 20, 2016.