Emma Smith
Having already shared the stage with the likes of Dame Cleo Laine, the late Sir John Dankworth and ‘BBC Jazz vocalist of the year’ winners Liane Carroll and Ian Shaw, nineteen year old Emma Smith is well on her way to her achieving her dream of being an accomplished jazz singer. At age 14 she [...]
Read more about emma...Felix Higginbottom
A young up-and-coming musician with an uncommonly strong background in a broad range of music (also playing the cello, bass guitar, piano, and singing). In 2007 He won the young musicians equipment bursary. After Studying with Keith Fairbairn (first call London percussionist) and Alan Graham (vibraphone legend), Felix moved on to KCL and RAM to study a music degree. Having a very musical ear allows him to sit within a group, listening and communicating with the other musicians whilst remaining \’tight\’. Felix regularly performs in public and profits from his ability as a proficient sight-reader, chart-reader, playing from memory and to a click track.
Read more about Felix...Gill Burgoyne
My parents shared their love of Big Band music with my older brother and I from an early age, and I was hooked on recordings of Stan Kenton,Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. Presented with the opportunity to learn the clarinet aged 9, I applied myself to the classical charts.
Read more about Gill...Gordon Silver
April 17, 2010 by admin
Gordon is Honorary Treasurer of NYJO which means he is the man with his hands on the purse strings! A Chartered Accountant in public practice for about forty years, Gordon took semi retirement in 2007 and this worked out until NYJO entered his life at the end of 2008. He is now no longer part time!
A lover of jazz (though he claims to know nothing about it) Gordon loves his involvement with NYJO, which was born out of his advising the late Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine for many years. He even has a son who is a professional saxophonist. So ask him about money matters or perform for him but don’t ask him who played second sax for JD in 1952 as he simply will have no idea.
Read more ...Helen Wilson
Helen Wilson plays the flute and aged 12 took up a place at Chethams School of Music, Manchester, where she studied with Gitte Sorenson, Linda Verrier, and Richard Davis. She then accepted a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester in 2007 to carry on her studies with Richard and now learns with Anders Ljungar Chapelon on an exchange programme at the Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden.
Read more about Helen...Helen Wilson – Flute
Helen, 22, from Harrogate is ABRSM scholar for Masters study at the RNCM supported by the Countess of Munster Trust. Helen’s career highlights include winning the RNCM Gold Medal, Concerto and BFS Perfomance Plus competitions. In 2006 she was a BBC Young Musician woodwind finalist. Her orchestral experience includes the BBC Philharmonic, European Union Youth Orchestra [...]
Read more about ...Henry Armburg-Jennings
Henry Armburg Jennings started playing trumpet (and piano) at the age of 5 and fifteen years later, at the age of only 20, he is already one of the hottest talents to emerge on the British jazz scene having opened the London Jazz Festival 2008 at the Bulls Head in Barnes.
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Jack Fallow
Trustee of NYJO and NYJA
Failed as a rock drummer due to lack of talent.
Assoc. Professor at Brunel University Business School. Main interest is in complexity theory and its human dimensions.
Read more ...James Larter
James started playing percussion at the age of 11 at the Royal College Junior Department and has played with county ensembles such as the Northamptonshire Youth Concert Band and Zingaresque: a world music group. He also plays for National Youth Wind Ensemble and is a reserve for the National Youth Orchestra. He took part in the LSO St. Lukes Academy 2009 and was in the percussion final of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2010. He also plays drum kit, violin and piano and is currently studying for his GCSE’s.
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