James Wylie (jazz musician)

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James Wylie (* 1986 ) is a New Zealand jazz musician ( alto saxophone , clarinet ).

Live and act

Wylie grew up in Wellington and learned piano and violin as a child before switching to the saxophone as a teenager and engaging in jazz and improvised music. After finishing high school, he studied at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, where he earned a Bachelor of Music. During this time he also performed in Australia, Europe and North America and received scholarships from the Aotea Performing Arts Trust and the Woolf Fisher Trust , which enabled him to continue his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (Master of Music in Jazz Performance 2010 ). During his stay in Boston he worked a. a. with Hayden Chisholm , Frank Gratkowski , Anthony Coleman , Jerry Bergonzi , Allan Chase , Dominique Eade , John McNeil , Cecil McBee , Bill McHenry , Tony Malaby, and Chris Cheek ; he also worked as a theater musician, a. a. for a stage adaptation of the short stories by Haruki Murakami . Wylie is engaged in a. with contemporary and microtonal music . After years in Berlin, he currently (2017) lives in Thessaloniki and is increasingly interested in southern and eastern European and neighboring musical traditions; with Sokratis Sinopoulos he learned to play the lyre politika . In Germany he appears in the formation Quite Fire (with Kathrin Pechlof , Benjamin Schaefer , Igor Spallati and Max Andrzejewski ). Currently (2018) he directs James Wylie's Lost Cities Ensemble , with Nima Khoshravesh (Setar), Arman Sigarchi (Oud) and Reza Samani (Tombak).

Discographic notes

  • Boogie Hustlers (2010)
  • Nadav Remez: So Far (2011)
  • Anna Webber : Percussive Mechanics (2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.vanguardorchestral.co.nz/james-wylie-saxophone/
  2. ↑ Quiet Fire
personal data
SURNAME Wylie, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand jazz musician (alto saxophone, clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH 1986