Biography James Woodrow

1 biography

1.1 contemporary work
1.2 work dance
1.3 jazz , other work

biography

woodrow born in 1961 , trained @ royal northern college of music. after graduating, rapidly became established 1 of country s leading electric , classical guitarists in contemporary , classical music in london, performer on mandolin, lute , bass guitar.

contemporary work

since 1991 has been leading member of ensemble icebreaker, has been joint musical director since 2006. icebreaker has performed @ carnegie hall in stewart wallace s concerto icebreaker, book of five, appearances @ lincoln center in new york, kennedy center in washington, london s south bank centre , extensively in uk, europe , usa.

in 1993 invited join gavin bryars ensemble , in 2001 became member of change of light, ensemble project set icebreaker s cellist audrey riley icebreaker keyboard player andrew zolinsky.

other ensembles has performed soloist , ensemble member include london chamber symphony, birmingham contemporary music group, london sinfonietta, lontano, lso, almeida opera, music projects london, bbc symphony orchestra, bbc singers , new london chamber choir. has been associated music of bang on can composer michael gordon, david lang , julia wolfe in performances concerto cologne , basel sinfonietta of decasia, lost objects , shelter. member of former microdisney , fatima mansions front man cathal coughlan s new band, grand necropolitan quartet.

work dance

woodrow has worked dance companies. member , featured soloist merce cunningham dance company 1999 until 2011, notably in performances of gavin bryars s work bi-ped, , playing featured in cd of merce cunningham dance company music, released before company closed. has featured regularly richard alston, including solo performances of steve reich s electric counterpoint on electric guitar, works jo kondo , denis gaultier on guitar , mandolin, 17th century works solo lute.

other dance companies has worked include london contemporary dance, rambert, phoenix dance company, siobhan davies, shobana jeyasingh, whom performed work solo guitar , electronics specially written him michael nyman, royal ballet , scottish ballet. has worked on music 3 project opera north: tango music astor piazzolla, nothing sun royal shakespeare company, revolving round shakespeare s sonnets, , tom waits-based project mercy , grand.

jazz , other work

woodrow active jazz guitarist, amongst others in own quartet candytime, whom has released 2 albums. performs on classical guitar in contemporary , older classical repertoire, own kammermusik ensemble.

he active classical guitarist in solo recitals, including works tippett, britten, elliott carter, jo kondo, thomas daniel schlee, takemitsu, , milhaud, baroque repertoire bach, denis gaultier , froberger.

frequent appearances on bbc radio 3 include performances of tippett’s knot garden, stockhausen’s gruppen, john buller’s proenca, richard dubugnon’s double piano concerto labeque sisters, , interludes guitar composed him howard skempton.