Gwilym Simcock

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Gwilym Simcock
Background information
Born (1981-02-24) 24 February 1981 (age 43)
Bangor, Gwynedd, U.K.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Piano
Years active2000s–present
Websitegwilymsimcock.com

Gwilym Simcock (born 24 February 1981) is a Welsh pianist and composer working in both jazz and classical music. He was chosen as one of the 1000 Most Influential People in London by the Evening Standard. He was featured on the front cover of the August 2007 issue of the UK's Jazzwise magazine.

Early life

Simcock was born in

Geoff Keezer. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and won the "Principal's Prize" for outstanding achievement. At the Royal Academy of Music he studied with Milton Mermikides
.

Career

In 2006, he was the first jazz musician to be selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, and this was extended to 2008. It involved broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 as solo performances, and his trio appearance at the Wigmore Hall during the London Jazz Festival 2006 (broadcast 7 July 2007).

In 2008, he was commissioned to perform at

The Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He composed a Piano Concerto "Progressions" which he performed with his trio and the BBC Concert Orchestra on 9 August 2008, broadcast live on the television channel BBC Two
.

On 5 October 2008, he was featured in an evening at the

King's Place
Opening Festival in which he performed four concerts leading four different groups including a duo with John Taylor.

His trio, which has performed at festivals and venues worldwide such as the North Sea Jazz Festival 2007, features James Maddren (drums) and Yuri Goloubev (bass), while his debut album featured Stan Sulzmann, John Parricelli, Phil Donkin, Martin France, and Ben Bryant.

He was chosen by Chick Corea for a solo concert performance and live recording at Klavier Festival Ruhr 2007. This concert was broadcast on WDR radio and 20,000 copies were given away as a cover mount CD in Germany's leading music magazine Fonoforum.[1]

He was a member of Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio, but he left in 2013 and was replaced by John Turville. He was a member of Malcolm Creese's Acoustic Triangle, Stan Sulzmann's Neon, and Bill Bruford's Earthworks. He has also played with Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, Bob Mintzer, Bobby McFerrin, Kenny Wheeler, Iain Ballamy, Julian Argüelles, Pete King, Don Weller, Steve Waterman, and Torsten de Winkel / New York Jazz Guerrilla. He is a founding member of The Impossible Gentlemen.

He also plays French horn[2] and has played with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), the BBC Big Band, and with Kenny Wheeler on his 2003/2005 tour.

He has toured with jazz guitarist

Linda Oh
and Antonio Sanchez.

In 2011 his album

Mercury Music Prize, losing to PJ Harvey's Let England Shake.[3]

Commissions/collaborations

Awards and nominations

  • Winner of Perrier Award 2001: Young Jazz Ensemble
  • Winner of BBC Jazz Award 2005: Rising Star
  • Winner of British Jazz Award 2005: Rising Star
  • Nominated for Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2007: Jazz Musician of the Year
  • Nominated for BBC Jazz Award 2008: Best Instrumentalist
  • Nominated for BBC Jazz Award 2008: Best Album
  • BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2006–2008
  • Nominated for Radio 3 Listeners' Awards 2008
  • Nominated for Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize 2011

Discography

As leader

  • Perception (Basho, 2007)
  • Blues Vignette (Basho, 2009)
  • Good Days At Schloss Elmau (ACT 2011)
  • Instrumation (ACT, 2014)
  • Reverie at Schloss Elmau with Yuri Goloubev (ACT, 2014)
  • Birdsong with Kizzy Crawford (Basho, 2018)
  • Near and Now (ACT, 2019)

As sideman

  • Catalyst, Acoustic Triangle (Audio B, 2003)
  • Close to You, Kathleen Willison (Basho, 2004)
  • Resonance, Acoustic Triangle (Audio B, 2005)
  • If the Sea Replied, Tim Garland (Sirocco Music, 2005)
  • Take Me Home, Kaz Simmons (33 Jazz, 2005)
  • Heart Luggage, Klaus Gesing (ATS, 2006)
  • Sax of Gold, Sax Assault (Astute Music, 2007)
  • Traces, Dan Stern (Kvetch, 2007)
  • Due North, Tim Garland (Jazzaction, 2007)
  • Reverence, Spike Wells (Audio-B, 2007)
  • Video Anthology Vol. 1: 2000's, Bill Bruford's Earthworks (Summerfold, 2007)
  • SGS Group Inc. Presents, Simcock/Goloubev/Sirkis (Music Center, 2008)
  • Give It One, London Horn Sound (Cala, 2008)
  • Smoke and Mirrors, Tom Richards Orchestra (Candid, 2008)
  • 3 Dimensions, Acoustic Triangle (Audio B, 2008)
  • Finally Beginning, John Warren (Fuzzy Moon, 2008)
  • Bimbache Jazz & Raíces, La Condición Humana (nyjg / ESC, 2008)
  • Howeird, Sam Crockatt Quartet (Loop, 2009)
  • Metafore Semplici, Yuri Goloubev (Universal, 2009)
  • Libra, Tim Garland (Global Mix, 2009)
  • Following On, John Warren (Fuzzy Moon, 2009)
  • The Impossible Gentlemen (Basho, 2011)
  • Internationally Recognised Aliens (Basho, 2013)
  • Let's Get Deluxe (Basho, 2016)
  • From This Place, Pat Metheny (Nonesuch, 2020)

References

  1. ^ Fonoforum Official web site Archived 7 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "The prodigious pianist reveals the music that gets his fingers twitching" The Independent
  3. ^ "PJ Harvey wins 2011 Barclaycard mercury Music Prize". NME. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2019.

Other sources

External links

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