Haftor Medbøe is a Norwegian-born guitarist, composer and educator living in Edinburgh, Scotland. With his eponymous group, he has recorded five albums and subsequently released albums with Will of the People {Pete Furniss – clarinet and Tom Bancroft – drums), Jacob […]

Sue McKenzie is a Yanagisawa UK Artist / D’Addario Woodwinds Artist and a Director of the Scottish Saxophone Academy.  Her UK/USA trio, Multifarious (with banjo player / composer Paul Elwood and cellist Susan Mayo) has performed in Scotland, France, Croatia […]

José Dias is a Portuguese musician, composer, researcher, and author currently based in the UK. He is part of the emerging new generation in Portuguese contemporary jazz, with his music strongly inspired by visual arts and literature. ​As a composer and performer, […]

Swedish jazz pianist and composer Jacob Karlzon has been compared to Sweden’s own legends Esbjörn Svensson and Jan Johansson. Karlzon’s playing style oozes technical brilliance, rhythmic and harmonic complexity with a perfect feeling for form. For a piano virtuoso, he […]

Gunnar Halle is a Norwegian trumpet player living in Oslo, playing mainly with Norwegian, Danish and Swedish groups. Gunnar grew up just outside Oslo, played classical music as a child and like most other horn players from Norway he played […]

Francesca Naibo, guitarist from Vittorio Veneto (Italy) based in Milan, moves fluently across all the different conjugations of the guitar, from the classic, the electric, to the fretless and the pedal steel. Involved in the research for solo performance, she […]

Espen Eriksen is a Norwegian composer and pianist, born in 1974, known for leading the Espen Eriksen Trio, a popular European jazz piano trio that performs with a melodic and minimalist style. The trio, which also includes bassist Lars Tormod Jenset […]

Benita Haastrup (born 1964) is a drummer, percussionist, educator and composer in Denmark. She studied at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, graduating in 1992. In 1998, she received the Ben Webster Prize. Haastrup has been a member of Marilyn Mazur‘s Percussion Paradise and of the all-female jazz group Sophisticated […]

Eva Malling studied bass with amongst others ‘the great Dane’ Nils Henning Ørsted Pedersen at the Conservatory of Rhythmic Music in Copenhagen. A stalwart of Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Eva has played in festivals and venues around Europe. As a recipient […]

Born in Glasgow, Konrad studied music at the University of Strathclyde and Berklee College of Music USA. He has released four original albums to date and has received two Scottish Jazz Awards for best instrumentalist in 2013 and again in […]

Fabio Giachino is one of the most interesting pianists of the new Italian generation. ​Musician, composer and producer, he has been awarded by some of the most important Italian and European Awards including “new Jazz Generation 2021”, “Premio Internazionale massimo […]

Clarinettist, improviser, educator, researcher. Lecturer in Music Performance at The University of Manchester. Caffeine addict & food obsessive.

Tom Bancroft is a drummer, composer, bandleader and educator. He qualified as a doctor at Cambridge University Tom now makes a living from music and music education. He has drummed in a wide range fo music projects from funk, drum […]