The Byron Wallen Project
- When?
- Friday 22 February 2013, 19:30
- Where?
- PATS Studio One
- Open to:
- Staff, Students, Public
- Admission price:
- £10, £5 students, concessions
- Tickets:
- Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
Byron Wallen is “one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive” (Jazzwise Magazine). Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, he is constantly travelling the world recording, teaching and performing.
Byron has been working on jazz improvisation, composition and performance with Music students for several months. This concert is the culmination of this mini-project which will showcase the ideas they have been developing together. Byron and the band will play a set based on compositions by Surrey students, all of which will be interpreted through improvisation.
Byron was raised in a musical environment and started learning his first instrument, the piano, at an early age. He then went on to study the trumpet with Jimmy Owens, Donald Byrd and Jon Faddis in New York. His early music career was forged while he was studying for a degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Maths at Sussex University (he graduated in 1992).
“Byron’s always absorbing music genuinely draws in the disparate elements of African and Eastern cultures, while retaining true jazz spirit …”