Matthew Bourne (musician)

Matthew Bourne (born October 6, 1977 in Avebury ) is a British jazz and improvisation musician ( piano , keyboards , synthesizer , also cello , composition ).

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Bourne began learning the trumpet at the age of nine ; at the Kingham Hill School he played the cello in 1990 before he discovered the piano. In 1995 he began studying contemporary classical composition at Leeds College of Music ; as a student he performed Michael Daugherty's piano concerto Tombeau de Liberace and John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra . In 2001 he completed his master's degree in jazz interpretation of the jazz sciences. Bourne then taught part-time at Leeds College of Music and received his doctorate in performing music from the University of Leeds .

In 2002 Bourne was awarded the Jazz Innovation Prize at the BBC Jazz Awards . In 2007 he released a live album, The Molde Concert , and was named a bronze winner of the International Visual Communications Association Music Award. In 2008 The Mill Sessions Volume 1: Dismantling the Waterfall , a collaboration with Welsh pianist Dave Stapleton , and Lost Something , the debut album of his trio Bourne / Davis / Kane, were released. In 2009, Bourne's Songs from a Lost Piano premiered in Leeds.

In 2012 Bourne released the solo album Montauk Variations , which put fragility and romance into the focus of his piano and cello playing. This was followed by the two synthesizer-based works Radioland: Radio-Activity Revisited (2015) with Frank Vigroux and Moogmemory (2016). The album Moogmemory was a consequence of Bourne's 1982 acquisition of a Memorymoog ; From the initially improvised, but then increasingly concentrated game with the analog synthesizer from Moog , the pieces on the album were created without the use of computers or sequencers . The solo piano album Isotach takes up the Montauk Variations again . The album Nightports was created in cooperation with producers Adam Martin and Mark Slater , in which the sounds of historical keyboard instruments are manipulated and alienated in a variety of ways.

He also worked with artists such as John Zorn , Paul Dunmall , Barre Phillips , Amon Tobin , Nils Frahm , Bonobo and Laurent Dehors as well as Benedic Lamdin's project Nostalgia 77 . He can also be heard on recordings with the Italian Unabile Orchestra , Mzylkypop or The Last Poets .

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SURNAME	Bourne, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British jazz and improvisation musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Avebury

[1] Songs for a Lost Piano at Bush Hall - a Review (Daily Telegraph)

[2] German Jazz Festival Frankfurt

[3] Review (The Jazzman)