Wednesday
Oct212009
Gilad with Strings at London Cadogan Hall
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Friday 6th November 2009, We will be Playing Gilad with Strings @Cadogan Hall, London£20/£15, To Book On Line, By Phone: 020 7730 4500
Atzmon founded the Orient House Ensemble band in London in the 2000 together with Asaf Sirkis (dr), Frank Harrison (pi) and Oli Hayhurst (bs).
Since then the ensemble toured extensively around the world. It has produced six albums in nine years.
In 2003 Yaron Stavi (bs) joined the band.
In 2009 Asaf Sirkis left the band and Eddie Hick (dr) took his place.
The Orient House Ensemble is currently preparing for its 1st decade anniversary tour and album.
Yaron Stavi
A Double bass and electric bass player Born in Tel Aviv, 6 April 1975. He played in concerts and festivals across Europe and Israel with the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. he met Gilad Atzmon and joined him in the bands Spiel and Spiel Acid Jazz. Aged 21 Yaron moved to Berlin. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts with Rainer Zepperitz, former principal bass player of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Yaron was principal double bass player of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, playing under Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Marris Jansons, Ivan Fischer, Franz Welser-Most, Sir Neville Mariner and others. In 2002 Yaron moved to London and joined Gilad Atzmon as a member of the Orient House Ensemble. Yaron plays in other Jazz bands from the UK and has performed with artists across Europe including Peter King, Larry Coryell, Jarek Smietana, Leszek Mozdzer, Gary Husband, Gene Calderazzo, and Stephen Keogh. Since meeting him at a festival in Switzerland in 1997, he has played with violinist Nigel Kennedy, both as a member of the Nigel Kennedy Jazz Group in Berlin’s Jazz club Quasimodo and in festivals in the UK. He played also on Robert Wyatt’s 2003 album Cuckooland and 2007 album Comicopera and in 2003 recorded two albums for John Zorn’s label Tzadik with Koby Israelite.
Frank Harrison
Frank Harrison was born in Oxford on 8 July 1978. He took up the piano at 11, and began playing gigs when he was 15. In 1994 he won the soloist award in the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition, and in 1996 placed second in Young Jazz Musician Of The Year.
After taking up a scholarship at Berklee School Of Music, Boston, he returned to England and joined Gilad Atzmon's band. In 2000 they started the Orient House Ensemble, with whom Frank has recorded five albums on Enja Records, including BBC Jazz Album Of The Year 2003, "Exile".
Eddie Hick
Born in York, UK in 1987, Eddie Hick started playing drums aged 13 at school. Aged 16 he joined Transglobal drummers and began playing djembe, taught by Jon Ward. The following year they travelled to Accra, Ghana where they studied music and dance with The Kusun Ensemble. Aged 18 he gained a Btec in performance from Leeds College of Music and the following year enrolled on the BA jazz degree. This gave him the opportunity to study with some great musicians/teachers including Ronnie Bottomley, Dave Walsh, Omar Puente, Rod Youngs and Lucky Ranku. Around this time he began performing in local clubs and bars with many inspiring musicians from around Yorkshire. Whilst in his 2nd year at college he met Gilad Atzmon and Stephen Keogh at a workshop who both encouraged him. In his 3rd year he began playing with the South Trio and Tomorrows Warriors.
Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Atzmon
