Born
October 6th, 1977, Avebury, England; pianist and composer Matthew Bourne first
came to national attention as one of the winners of the Perrier Jazz Awards in
London, 2001. In the same year Bourne graduated from Leeds College of Music.
Bourne’s
unique ability to create powerful imagery through an esoteric piano language
along with spoken word samples earned him the Innovation Award at the BBC Radio
Jazz Awards in 2002. Bourne continued to develop this methodology, delivering
intense and highly personal performances at an international level – many of
these becoming the focus of Bourne’s PhD research, undertaken at the University
of Leeds. During this period Bourne was the recipient of the IJFO
(International Jazz Festivals Organisation) International Jazz Award in 2005,
performing at key international festivals in mainland Europe, Scandinavia,
Canada and the USA.
By
this stage, Bourne had also become co-leader of The Electric Dr M, Distortion
Trio and Bourne/Davis/Kane and was beginning to work in a wider context, in the
UK and Europe, with other international jazz musicians and with producers such
as Dan Berridge (Broadway Project) – a successful partnership that has resulted
in the music for two albums (In Finite [2006] and One Divided Soul [2009]) and
three award-winning films (Indians [Richard Penfold, UK, 2005], Here is Always
Somewhere Else [Rene Daalder, USA, 2008] and Flikan (The Girl) [Fredrik
Edfeldt, Sweden, 2009]).
Throughout
the last decade Bourne’s particular stamp of individuality and virtuosity,
combined with an uncanny ability to communicate with his audiences, attracted
commissions from major festivals and organisations to write and produce
large-scale projects (The Glenn Miller Project [Leeds Fuse Festival, 2006],
Ending [Conservatoires UK, 2007] and Songs from a Lost Piano [Arts
Council/Sound and Music, 2009] and music for dance (Mekwae and The Dancical
[RJC Dance, 2004/2006]), as well as classical composition (…and I didn’t fall
in love, again. Autumn 2004 [BBC/London Jazz Festival, 2004] and
Written/Unwritten [London Sinfonietta, 2011]) and collaborative electronic
works (Phone Book [Michael Tippett Foundation/Bath International Festival,
2006] and Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals [FuseLeeds, 2009]).
Bourne has released two
solo albums (The
Molde Concert, 2007 and Montauk Variations,
2012) as well as several collaborative works. For a complete discography see
the Acquire section.
Bourne
has continued to pursue his interest in music education, working for a number
of years at Leeds College of Music, lecturing in principal study piano,
composition and composition analysis. He became Artist in Residence in 2008,
leaving in 2010 to pursue his own projects as a leader.
Bourne
continues to be in constant demand as a pianist and analogue synthesist and has
recorded/performed/collaborated with Sam Hobbs, Franck Vigroux, Laurent Dehors,
Marc Ducret, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Andrea Centazzo, Seaming To, Peter Wareham,
Barre Phillips, Roger Turner, Paul Dunmall, Tony Bevan, Annette Peacock and
Nostalgia 77.
Website: http://matthewbourne.com/home
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