Sylvia Hallett

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Sylvia Hallett (* 1953 ) is a British improvisation musician ( violin , vocals , composition ).

Live and act

Sylvia Hallett studied music at Dartington College, after which she went to Paris for two years to study composition with Max Deutsch . Since the late 1970s, she has been working in the British improvisation scene with musicians such as Lol Coxhill , Maggie Nicols , Phil Minton , Evan Parker , David Toop and Alasdair Roberts . Since 1984 she has been part of the improvising accordion band Accordions Go Crazy , with whom she recorded several albums. She was also a member of the British Summer Time Ends group , with whom she toured Europe several times. She also worked in the London Improvisers Orchestra and the London Hardingfelelag ; with Danny Kingshill and Gus Garside she founded the trio Arc , which released an album in 1993 and 2009. She also appeared as a soloist and in a duo with Clive Bell , as well as with Mike Adcock , Anna Homler and Ian MacGowan . She also worked in various theater and dance projects such as with Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard , Miranda Tufnell , Emilyn Claid , Jacky Lansley , Eva Karczag and Nenagh Watson . She has also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions such as Comedy of Errors , Tales from Ovid and Canterbury Tales . So far she has released four solo albums under her own name, most recently White Fog (2001) and The Geographers (2005), both with Emanem Records . The discographer Tom Lord lists her participation in 41 recording sessions between 1982 and 2012. Hallett has also written commissioned compositions for several radio plays for the BBC , such as Two Men From Delft , Kings and Virginia Woolfs Kew Gardens . She can also be heard on albums by Steve Beresford , LaXula , Jah Wobble and Paul Baran .

Discographic notes

  • Clive Bell & Sylvia Hallett: The Geographers (Emanem, 2005)
  • Clive Bell, Roberto Filoseta, Sylvia Hallett: Acoustic Dream (UH Recordings, 2007)
  • Sylvia Hallett & Mike Adcock: Reduced (The Orchestra Pit Recording Co., 2010)
  • Anna Homler & Sylvia Hallett: The Many Moods of Bread and Shed (The Orchestra Pit Recording Co., 2012)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 27, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Hallett, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1953