Peter Edwards – Montreal International Jazz Festival
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Montreal International Jazz Festival
Peter Edwards is a pianist, composer and bandleader who graduated with a Masters in Jazz from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2009. Participation in the Tomorrowʼs Warriors young artist development programme gave him the opportunity to sharpen his performance and compositional skills under the guidance of Gary Crosby OBE. Peter began recording and touring with the Abram Wilson Quartet and has gone on to work with Rhythmica, Nicola Emmanuelle and Zara McFarlane.
In 2010, Peter formed his piano trio and released a Jazzlotion E.P. The following year Help Musicians presented him with a Development Award to help support the band’s progress. In 2013, Peter returned to the studio to record his debut trio album ‘Safe and Sound’. The album has received glowing reviews – 4* in MOJO, 4* in ‘The Evening Standard’ and 3* in ‘The Guardian’. In July 2014 the group was selected play at the Manchester Jazz Festival for a ‘BBC Introducing’ showcase. The performance was recorded and later broadcast on BBC Radio’s ‘Jazz on 3’.
Peter is also the musical director of the Nu Civilisation Orchestra (NCO), a professional jazz orchestra that performs original works, commissions and ground breaking jazz classics from the past. Peter has composed several works for the ensemble. These include commissions ‘Where Dreams Lead’ and ‘Above and Beyond the Horizon’. He has also arranged Ellington’s ‘Queen’s Suite’ and Charles Mingus’ ‘Black Saint and the Sinner Lady’ both of which have been performed at the London Jazz Festival in recent years.
He is the 2015 Parliamentary Jazz Awards ‘Newcomer of the year’ and is among the nominees for the 2015 Jazz FM ‘Breakthough Artist’ award.
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