Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
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Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Elliot Galvin is one of the rising stars of UK jazz. A superbly gifted composer and pianist, whose maverick imagination and magpie like ability to blend a disparate world of influences into his own unique musical vision has seen him compared to Django Bates although in truth he sounds like no one except himself. From de-constructing standards to creating his own mirco-tonal melodica, Galvin’s music is both playful and deadly serious, drawing on a wide range of influences from Keith Jarrett to Stravinsky, Ligeti, Deerhoof and the Beatles as well as the films of David Lynch, the Dada movement and the literature of James Joyce. He was a founding member of the Chaos Collective and a regular collaborator with Laura Jurd, he also plays in a free improve duo with Mark Sanders.
Elliot is a prolific composer and has been comissioned by a number of Ensembles, Dance Companies, Theatre Groups and Festivals including the London Sinfonietta, Ligeti String Quartet, St. John Smith’s Square, The London Jazz festival, The RESOLUTION! Dance Festival at The Place and the Theatre Company Cut Tongues. He works regularly with multi-media and in 2014 put on a multi-media installation piece at the Turner Contemporary Gallery, which consisted of live performance, interactive sound sculptures and film. He also runs a multi-disciplinary theatre-music ensemble called the Vanderbilts. But his main artistic vehicle is the Elliot Galvin Trio
"He reminds me of the young Django Bates, and the impression Django made on me in the 1980s – great improv chops, strong character as a player and a composer, evident love of the jazz tradition without wanting to repeat the past, very English sense of humor. He’s the kind of artist you always want to stay tuned in to, because you know he’s going to keep on coming up with surprises." - John Fordham (The Guardian)
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Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Here's Elliot Galvin with his winning improvised solo piano performance from the Trinity Laban Gold Medal Competition 2014
And here he is with the Elliot Galvin Trio in their official video for the launch of their album 'Blop'
I'll leave you with just a touch more of the ingenuity and sheer talent of the man, seen and heard here in a live session for Jazz FM, earlier this year:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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Directions to
Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Wednesdays at
Christ Church Guest organist: Hannah Parry concert recitalist former Asst DoM, St Michael's Highgate 12.30 lunchtime 19 September 2018 |
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Sacha Gibbs-McPhee clarinet with accompanist 12.30 lunchtime 4 October 2018 |
a concert each week
to the end of November |
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