Martin Hathaway

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Martin Hathaway (born August 6, 1969 in Chelmsford ) is a British modern jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , flute , piano , composition , arrangement ). According to Ian Carr , he is considered an "exceptionally promising soloist and extremely talented composer and arranger".

Career

Hathaway took music lessons from 1979 and was a member of the Essex Youth Orchestra from 1984 to 1990 . Between 1987 and 1991 he studied at the Guildhall School of Music , which he successfully completed. From 1988 he worked in various bands of Michael Garrick ; He also became a permanent member of the London Jazz Orchestra and represented Mike Westbrook in its orchestra. He has been leading his own bands since 1989 and his own big band since 1992. He also played in the ensembles of Kenny Wheeler , Stan Sulzmann , Don Rendell , Harry Beckett , Keith Nichols , Duncan Lamont and Loz Speyer and appeared with the Dankworth Generation Band as well as with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Radiohead , on their album Kid A. he can be heard. He wrote compositions for his own groups, but also for Michael Garrick's New Quartet and the London Jazz Orchestra .

He has been a professor at the Guildhall School since 1991, where he has headed the jazz department since 2007. He has also directed the Essex Youth Orchestra since 1992 .

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