KJAER / RYAN / WHEATLEY TRIO

Julie Kjaer / flutes/saxophone
David Ryan / clarinets
Tom Wheatley / contrabass

This new trio intersperses improvisation with composed pieces drawing on the players individual backgrounds. Julie Kjaer is now a familiar figure in European free improvised music who is also exploring her own brand of jazz with her Danish Quartet, and currently working with a new UK based trio with John Edwards and Steve Noble. Julie is recipient of a ‘New Voices ‘ award from Sound and Music. David Ryan has performed improvised duos with John Edwards and Ian Mitchell, as well as playing, with Apartment House, at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival; with Ensemble Dissonanzen, Riot Studio, Naples Italy; Nuova Consonanza Festival, Rome, Italy, and with Phill Niblock at Raumklang in Cologne, Germany. Tom Wheatley is a Double Bass and Electric Bass player based in, and native to, London. He plays to open the bass – sonically and physically, musically and surgically; un(-)sound practice.




JENNIFER ALLUM / solo violin

Jennifer Allum is a violinist who improvises and plays experimental music. While she was a post graduate student at Goldsmiths, London in 2005 she began to attend Eddie Prevost's weekly improvisation workshops and to work with composers such as Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Michael Pisaro and Michael Parsons. She has three recordings available from Matchless Recordings, the latest of which is a duo cd with the cellist Ute Kanngiesser, which was recorded in Hackney's historic bell tower.


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OTO PROJECT SPACE

The OTO Project Space is located just around the corner from Cafe OTO at 1-7 Ashwin Street - E8 3DL.

It was created as a space for artists to develop new work and for OTO Projects to present workshops, talks, film screenings and installations relating to the core programme at Cafe OTO. The building was designed by Assemble - a young, critically acclaimed design practice based in London - and built by a team of more than 30 volunteers.