I have been playing piano and electronic keyboards for 40 years. My music is completely improvised, and I create spontaneous compositions with other musicians in the heat of the moment. He also performs as a soloist. I am based in Heysham, UK. I have toured extensively, performing and recording with many musicians from the free improvised music scene here in Britain and abroad, performing in Grutronic, a four piece electronic band, Grew Trio, Grew Quartet and Grew & Grew. I have also performed and recorded with Evan Parker, Keith Tippett, Graham Clark, Pat Thomas, Howard Riley and many others. Long standing collaborators  have been with his brother, Nicholas Grew, Richard Scott, David Ross, Philip Marks  and Trevor Watts.

 

 

 

I have devoted all of my energies to making music completely made in the moment; improvised.  I have toured consistently since 1996, in Grew Trio with the great Mancunian players, drummer Phillip Marks and sax/electronics player Richard Scott. We have mainly performed in Britain but also performed in prestigious modern music festivals in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Latvia , Canada and Slovakia. In 2000 Richard Scott left Grew trio and after a duo collaboration with Sheffield based sax/bassoon player Mick Beck, Mick joined Grew trio to form Grew Quartet in 2006, with bass player Dominic Lash.

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Past collaborations have enabled me to work in Grutronic, (Myspace.com/grutronicmusic) with guests Evan Parker, Orphy Robinson, Paul Obermayer and Grew Quartet, a recent Orchestral project with Nicholas Grew and duos featuring violinist Graham Clark, drummer Tony Bianco, Phillip Marks, and drummer / electronics musician David Ross all of whom are based outside of Lancashire. Our music comes out of a need to play music and communicate with sound at the moment of creating it, this process becomes very refined over many years. The long periods of time devoting the workman like instrumentalists approach to making this kind of music, creates a greater clarity of playing and composing, until a bit of magic conversation appears!

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Current Works.

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My solo piano music has been the main focus in the last ten years. The music is made using large musical shapes, these shapes inhabit a longer time frame than the shorter phrases and musical gestures ordinarily associated with Free Improvisation. Within the pieces are interludes, changing points that can seem to fertilise the next musical direction, brief silences: to ultimately create sonic bridges between the varying passages of longer music.

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As a result of an intensive program of recorded works, some 1400 solo works within the last four years have helped fashion a fresher trajectory of directions, forming new techniques and unusual shifts in emotional stuff! Pure Flow is what I'm aiming for. The solo music has taken me to Brazil, Latvia, Lithuanian, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany, Scotland and a variety of prestigious events in England.

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I also have a duo with the great sax veteran Trevor Watts, we have recorded 3 albums and performed in many concerts in England and Germany.

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