Dave O'Higgins

Saxophonist Dave is a composer, arranger and educator. Whilst studying at the City University in London he started his own jazz quartet and began gigging with NYJO, John Dankworth & Cleo Laine, & Icelandic jazz-funk band, Mezzoforte. Over the years Dave has won various accolades from the British Jazz Awards including Best Tenor Sax. He teaches saxophone and harmony at the London Centre for Contemporary Music and Goldsmiths College.

Jazz saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes has won awards from the Musicians' Benevolent Fund and the PRS for Music Foundation. She released her debut album Tangent in 2010 and received praise for its integrity, luminosity and ambition. In autumn 2010 she toured the UK with her band, generously supported by Jazz Services.

Following the success of Tangent, Trish was recently selected by Jamie Cullum, Gilles Peterson and Jez Nelson to perform on the BBC Introducing stage at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2011. Her quartet has featured during the Proms Plus Late series at the Royal Albert Hall.

'... one of the most agile and original jugglers of improv and adventurous composition to have appeared in the UK in recent times...' (The Guardian).

One of Britain's top jazz pianists and composers.

Mike Outram is one of the UKs foremost guitarists who is sought after as an improviser and his ability to contribute a unique voice to any musical ensemble. He has toured internationaly, appeared on over a hundred CDs for Universal, Sony, Candid, Blue Note records and others, and was awarded Granada Jazz Festival's 'Best Group in Europe' award.