Musician
| TORFAEN | |
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| name: | ANNE LISTER |
| address: | 33 Pine Gardens Tranch Pontypool |
| postcode: | NP4 6BS |
| tel: | 01495 763005 |
| fax: | 01495 763005 |
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| www: | www.annelister.com |
| description: | Folk singer songwriter, workshop host and teacher. Writing songs and songs and singing them, telling stories in the songs that draw modern parallels from ancient myths... |
| RHONDDA CYNON TAFF | |
| name: | DAN PHELPS |
| address: | Llantwit Fardre Pontypridd |
| postcode: | CF38 2PZ |
| tel: | 07974 635502 |
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| www: | www.phelpsmusic.com |
| description: | Dan Phelps is a composer, pianist and tutor based in South Wales. Dan has a Post Graduate Diploma in composition from the prestigious Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as well as a BA (Hons) degree in Music from Bath Spa University College. Multimedia Dan has composed music for a number of professional organisations and individuals including Rubicon Dance, India Dance Wales, Elan Wales (a theatre company) and Calon TV (an animation company) amongst others. Dan continues to work very closely with two poets, Jeff Phelps and Simon Fletcher, on a collaboration project Severn Spirit. The collaboration combines the original solo piano works of Dan Phelps with the poems and stories of Jeff Phelps and Simon Fletcher. Chamber Music Dan has been involved with numerous chamber ensembles and musicians including the Gjylaci Duo, Harvey Davies (piano) and Heather Bills (cello), who premiered his piece 'Minimum Vs. maximum at the Powys Hall at the University of Wales Bangor as part of the Bangor Music Festival, Ensemble Cymru, Philip Heyman (of Welsh National Opera) and Zoe Smith and the Mavron Quartet amongst others. Dan was also a member and an associate composer of the Cardiff New Music Collective for several years. CNMC specialise in performing contemporary music to new audiences Dan is currently working very closely with librettist Simon Rees of Welsh National Opera on a new opera piece called Hadrian At Antinooplis Education work After working at the Wales Millennium Centre leading educational music workshops for children Dan now freelances as a workshop facilitator and piano and composition tutor. Performance Dan has and continues to be a part of a number of performance based projects. Dan is also the keyboard player in 2 Rude, a Ska tribute band. The band have played at many venues and festival across the UK and look forward to more successes in the future. Dan was the keyboard player for New Jersey, a Bon Jovi tribute band and also worked very closely with a vocalist on a number of music projects. The duo performed together many times including a concert prior to the prestigious BAFTA Cymru Awards held at Wales Millennium Centre. They have played, amongst others, at the internationally recognised Millennium Stadium, Cafe Jazz, Aber Jazz Festival, Bute Town Jazz and Blues Festival, the Hard Rock Cafe in Cardiff, which was one of the first Jazz gigs under the Hard Rock Brand, St Giles Church in the prestigious Covent Gardens, and they have recently performed live on Cardiff Radio. The duo received excellent feedback on their versions of classic songs and their own material. |
| PORT TALBOT | |
| name: | DAVE JONES |
| address: | 10 Devonshire Place Port Talbot |
| postcode: | SA13 1SG |
| tel: | 01639 892 590 |
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| www: | www.myspace.com/davejonestrio |
| LLANGOLLEN | |
| name: | DJ WATTS |
| contact: | DJ |
| address: | No 2 Brynhyfryd Terrace Garth |
| postcode: | LL20 7YA |
| tel: | 07534251891 |
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| description: | Hard rock band with a modern flair. I think there is a big gap in the market at the moment for a rock band that isnt "indie" but still has songs with enough of a hook in them to make them accessible to a widestream audience. |
| CARDIFF | |
| name: | DOTS. FILM BAND. |
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| www: | www.myspace.com/dotsfilmband |
| description: | A group of three musicians who compose music to soundtrack contemporary short films live. Unique in the U.K, dots. collaborate with established and emerging filmmakers working in the fields of live-action, animation, silent film and new media filmmaking. Combining the live sound-tracking tradition established in the early days of cinema, and the best of modern-day film subjects, styles, techniques, and a century of cinematic influences and developments. dots. film band add another dimension to the film experience using the power of live music to create exceptional multi-sensory events, embracing the swelling interest in the art of the short-film and creating a quasi-Wagnerian “total artwork” for the 21st century. dots have collaborated with a diverse selection of film-makers who work in a variety of media from stop-frame animation, through to live action and CGI. Artists we have worked with include Virginia Head (Best Welsh artist award 2007) who has worked for several award-winning animation companies across Europe and in the USA, and Rhiannon Evans, a young up-coming filmmaker whose work has recently been shown in the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand short film festival in France. dots. film band have performed and developed their art with showcases at SWN Festival, The Trailerpark Film Festival and the National Experimentica Festival, to an overwhelmingly positive reaction by programmers and public alike, and we look forward to taking this exciting and original project out to a wider audience. For their current project, due to tour the UK in late 2010, dots. film band have taken 6 contrasting shorts, encompassing silent, animation and live-action from 6 upcoming British filmmakers, and created soundtracks to perform live on a vast array of instruments and found objects as required by each film. |
| CARDIFF | |
| name: | ED SCOLDING |
| contact: | Ed Scolding |
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| www: | www.edscolding.co.uk |
| description: | Ed studied composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating with First Class Honours in 2008 under tutors Lynne Plowman and Timothy Raymond. As a composer, arranger and producer, Eds output ranges from concert works to film soundtracks and music for amateur musicians. Citing influences from Eric Truffaz and Cinematic Orchestra to Charles Ives and Gregorian chant, his music draws on both Jazz and classical idioms and can be distinguished by his use of lyrical lines, organic structures and distinct, dramatic orchestration. His instrumental music includes orchestral works Darkroom Shavings and Tree, both performed in workshops by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Other works include Blue & Gold, a duet for clarinet and tenor horn, which was composed and recorded as part of the Davies Sisters collection exhibition at National Museum Cardiff, and Blue Thread for alto sax, cello and piano, selected as part of the Vox Novus 60x60 project. Film projects have included an upbeat soundtrack for the natural history film Bay of Life (installed at Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and distributed to 1800 schools across Wales) and music for the short film Tool Thieves. A composer continually inspired by the dramatic potential of the human voice, Eds vocal writing has seen him twice winner of the Barry Choral Society Competition prize with In Viam Pacis and The Falling Star, a setting of a poem by then 7-year old Oneeb bin Nauman. During the summer he completed Snowfall, a work for soprano and mixed ensemble, written under the guidance of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Alasdair Nicolson and Sally Beamish at this years St Magnus Festival composers course in Orkney. Not Being Charles Frieth, Eds operatic aria to a libretto by Bethan James, was recently performed under the guidance of Judith Wier by Gareth Lloyd and David Seaman with Michael McCarthy and Michael Rafferty directing and conducting as part of the Music Theatre Wales Make an Aria project, in conjunction with Michael Berkeley and Ian McEwans new opera For You. For the academic year 2008-2009 Ed is composer-in-residence for the Stem Cell Multi-arts Project at St. Gregorys Catholic College. The project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, takes the areas of stem cell related research, developments and debate as a creative stimulus for compositions, dance and art by GCSE pupils, developing to a dance and arts concert presentation in summer 2009. Since July 2008 Ed has been working with composer John Hardy at his studio in Cardiff providing promotional, administrative and creative support for a wide range of media and concert projects. In addition to composing Ed has reviewed concerts and CDs for the Society for the Promotion of New Music and performs with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. For the latest updates, visit www.edscolding.co.uk |
| CARDIFF | |
| name: | GARETH THOMAS MUSIC |
| address: | 118 Overstone Court |
| postcode: | CF10 5NU |
| tel: | 07588304215 |
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| www: | www.gareththomasmusic.co.uk |
| description: | Gareth Thomas provides original compositions for the media industry, whether it is Film, Television, Radio, Games, Gareth creates professional sounding work to suit your needs. Gareth has worked on a number of short films over the last couple of years, and has a large portfolio of work ready to be used for new projects. As well as a composer for media, Gareth is a songwriter and professional Piano accompanist and session worker. Gareth has worked as an accompanist for many stage productions from stage drama to musical theatre, and he has also worked on a number of sound recordings. Gareth was originally a self taught musician, only gaining support from tutors to complete all grades. Gareth is fresh out of studying a BA Popular Music degree at The Atrium, Cardiff (University Of Glamorgan) in which he gained exceptional results for his composition work. He can write music in a number of genres- so whether you are looking for classical, pop, rock, electronic or ambient music and many more, Gareth might be the composer just for you. |
| CARDIFF | |
| name: | NEW RIG STEEL BAND |
| tel: | 07818 214 785 |
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| www: | http://www.newrig.co.uk/steelband/ |
| description: | steel band wales cardiff new rig caribbean |
| CARDIFF | |
| name: | OK BAND |
| contact: | Adam Barrah |
| address: | 11 Lower Cathedral Road Riverside |
| postcode: | CF11 6LU |
| tel: | 07800706964 |
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| www: | www.telltheworldok.com |
| description: | Pure indie pop for dancing to. |
| CARDIFF | |
| name: | PAUL JONES - JOC RECORDS |
| tel: | 07866742690 |
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| www: | http://www.myspace.com/thisispauljones |
| description: | Freelance Jazz pianist and composer. Played on G.L.C's Greatest Hits album, and has supported Morrissey and Nancy Sinatra at the Royal Festival Hall. Co-runs Jazz Quartet "The Jones O'Connor Group" and has played at festivals and venues all over the UK. Paul is the Jazz piano tutor for the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Junior music Department. In 2007 Joc Records was set up by Paul Jones and Guitarist Richard Jones to release and promote the work of The Jones O’Connor Group. It has to date released two albums,” Alpha" in 2005 and the latest album "A Crow for every Crow" in Dec 2007. |
| CAERPHILLY | |
| name: | ROB LEAR |
| address: | 4 Heol Morien Nelson |
| tel: | 01443450161 |
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| www: | http://www.roblear.co.uk |
| description: | OMPOSER (FILM/ARTIST CO-WRITER) ( composed music for Tornado Films feature film 'Summertime',Galion production showreels and song co-writing, currently for international artist Alen Seed ). Singer/Songwriter under the name Rob Lear, Playlisted for single releases in 2011, selected as single of the week for BBC Radio Wales Sept 2011. |
| WREXHAM | |
| name: | SERGE @ BORDER MUSIC |
| contact: | Sergios Sergiou |
| address: | 73 Offa Chirk |
| postcode: | LL14 5DJ |
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| www: | http://www.bordermusic.co.uk/music |
| description: | Song Writer, Musician, Recording Artist. Composing personalised songs for individuals and organisations (companies, football clubs), Weddings (First Dance Songs) and special occasions (birthdays etc). Good with kids, have produced one school album. |
| PONTYCLUN | |
| name: | STEPHEN WHEEL |
| address: | 61 Windsor Drive Miskin |
| tel: | 07952240465 |
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| www: | www.stephenwheel.com |
| description: | Musician, composer and producer. Steve's debut album is called Snow Angels. It was written, performed, arranged, recorded and produced by Steve, with some of his very talented friends, including the fantastic drummer Gareth Dylan Smith. It's guitar based rock music, with John Barry-style live strings and brass, electronic moments, harp and theremin. Steve is a lecturer in Creative Music Technology, Film Music and Outreach Workshop Leadership at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and teaches electric guitar, bass and pop & rock ensembles at the Llandaff Cathedral School. |
| ABERYSTWYTH | |
| name: | VICTORIA EVANS |
| address: | The Hollies Penglais Road |
| postcode: | SY23 2EU |
| tel: | 07514 259313 |
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| description: | Violin/viola player & teacher; gyspy swing/latin ensemble & classical string quartet for functions/entertainment. |
