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Huw Warren | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Swansea, Wales |
| Genres | Jazz, world, new pop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Piano, accordion, cello |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Website | www |
Huw Warren is a Welsh jazz pianist and composer whose work crosses several genres. He is known as co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants.
Huw Warren was the co-leader and founder of the jazz quartet Perfect Houseplants with Mark Lockheart, Dudley Phillips, and Martin France. Perfect Houseplants recorded five albums for various labels (including the Scottish label Linn) and produced collaborative projects with early music artists such as Andrew Manze, Pamela Thorby, and the Orlando Consort. Warren has had a long collaboration with English singer June Tabor as her arranger and musical director. They have toured worldwide and produced large-scale projects with the Creative Jazz Orchestra and the LPO Renga ensemble. Warren and Tabor were featured in Phillip King's Freedom Highway film and the Daughters of Albion project recorded in 2009 by BBC Four.
Between 1997 and 2005, Warren worked closely with UK jazz label Babel, which released five albums of his music.
Warren arranged and produced a Welsh Hymn album in 2004, Duw a Wyr (God Only Knows) with singer Lleuwen Steffan. I received media exposure on radio and TV in Wales, including a S4C documentary about the making of the album. He has worked extensively with partner Maria Lamburn, producing three albums with her and setting up Maizeh Music.
As the trio Quercus (with June Tabor and Iain Ballamy) Warren recorded albums for ECM and produced with Manfred Eicher. The album Quercus was released in 2013 and won the German Critics' Album of the Year award.
Nightfall was released in 2017. [1]
He has collaborated with Mark Feldman, Maria Pia De Vito, Peter Herbert, Joanna MacGregor, Theo Bleckmann, Pamela Thorby, and Erik Truffaz. His band Dialektos with Italian singer Maria Pia De Vito resulted in two recordings (Dialektos and O Pata Pata) and performances with musicians such as Gabriele Mirabassi, Ralph Towner, and RA Ramamani.
In 2019, Warren released albums for the Italian label CAM Jazz, including a trio album Everything in Between with Dudley Phillips and Zoot Warren, and a live duo album New Day with saxophonist Mark Lockheart
Warren has performed and recorded with Kenny Wheeler, Loose Tubes, Steve Arguelles, Julian Arguelles, Billy Jenkins, John Parricelli, John Etheridge, Christine Tobin, Tim Garland, Scott Stroman, Antonio Forcione, and Brian Abrahams' District Six. Warren has also worked with Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, Eddi Reader, Echobelly, Christine Collister, and the Audio Bullys. Warren has also recorded film scores for Colin Towns, Stephen Warbeck and Mike Gibbs.
Warren has worked with artists from a number of different fields including:
Warren has worked as a piano and composition teacher in the Jazz departments at Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and led many workshops and specialist music education programs. He is currently visiting professor of Jazz Piano at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, Head of Jazz Ensembles at Cardiff University. Piano tutor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama summer school, and faculty member at JIMS in Salzburg. He has also written and arranged the ABRSM jazz syllabus.
Vortex Jazz/Babel label
KPM/Galapogos
Warren did live broadcasts for Radio 3, including duos with Peter Herbert and John Parricelli. Warren performed in another live special, Late Junction, with June Tabor, as well as the Radio 3 60th anniversary concert with Perfect Houseplants. Other live performances include: The Radio Wales Arts Show special interview with Nichola Heywood Thomas, Late Junction 10th anniversary live special (2010), and Hermeto+ live for Jazz on 3 (2010) with Dudley Phillips, Iain Ballamy, Maria Pia De Vito, and Martin France.
Warren appeared in the BBC4 Sessions with June Tabor, and later with Jools Holland in the S4C Documentary (Sioe Celf) about the making of Duw y Wyr with Lleuwen Steffan. Warren also appeared in the Brecon Jazz Festival (2006), a BBC4 documentary "Jazz Pianists", as well as a S4C 25th anniversary program about Brecon Jazz in 2007.
The Brecon Jazz Festival is a music festival held annually in Brecon, Wales. Normally staged in early August, it has played host to a range of jazz musicians from across the world.
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO-GB) is the national youth orchestra of the United Kingdom, consisting of 164 members of ages 13 to 19 years. Auditions take place in the autumn each year at various locations in the country. The minimum standard needed to audition is ABRSM / Trinity Guildhall / London College of Music Grade 8 Distinction, though it is not necessary to have taken any examinations. In 2011, the orchestra was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society's Best Ensemble Award. In 2012, the NYO received the Queen's Medal for Music. In 2015 the NYO received the Royal Philharmonic Society's Ensemble award, which recognized particularly the launch of NYO Inspire as well as their other work.
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