# Bourne’s unique ability to create powerful imagery: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/10/06/bournes-unique-ability-create-powerful-imagery-video/
- Published: 2017-10-06T09:00:28+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**06.10. – Happy Birthday !!! Born October 1977, Avebury, England; pianist and composer
Matthew Bourne first came to national attention as one of the winners of the Perrier
Jazz Awards in London, 2001. In the same year Bourne graduated from Leeds College
of Music.**

Bourne’s unique ability to create powerful imagery through an esoteric piano language
along with spoken word samples earned him the Innovation Award at the BBC Radio 
Jazz Awards in 2002. Bourne continued to develop this methodology, delivering intense
and highly personal performances at an international level—many of these becoming
the focus of Bourne’s PhD research, undertaken at the University of Leeds. During
this period Bourne was the recipient of the IJFO (International Jazz Festivals Organisation)
International Jazz Award in 2005, performing at key international festivals in mainland
Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and the USA.

By this stage, Bourne had also become co-leader of The Electric Dr M, Distortion
Trio and Bourne/Davis/Kane and was beginning to work in a wider context, in the 
UK and Europe, with other international jazz musicians and with producers such as
Dan Berridge (Broadway Project)—a successful partnership that has resulted in the
music for two albums (In Finite [2006] and One Divided Soul [2009]) and three award-
winning films (Indians [Richard Penfold, UK, 2005], Here is Always Somewhere Else[
Rene Daalder, USA, 2008] and Flikan (The Girl) [Fredrik Edfeldt, Sweden, 2009]).

Throughout the last decade Bourne’s particular stamp of individuality and virtuosity,
combined with an uncanny ability to communicate with his audiences, attracted commissions
from major festivals and organisations to write and produce large-scale projects(
The Glenn Miller Project [Leeds Fuse Festival, 2006], Ending [Conservatoires UK,
2007] and Songs

from a Lost Piano [Arts Council/Sound and Music, 2009] and music for dance (Mekwae
and The Dancical [RJC Dance, 2004/2006]), as well as classical composition (…and
I didn’t fall in love, again. Autumn 2004 [BBC/London Jazz Festival, 2004] and Written/
Unwritten [London Sinfonietta, 2011]) and collaborative electronic works (Phone 
Book [Michael Tippett Foundation/Bath International Festival, 2006] and Dinner Music
for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals [FuseLeeds, 2009]).

Bourne has released two solo albums (The Molde Concert, 2007 and Montauk Variations,
2011) as well as several collaborative works. For a complete discography see the
Acquire section.

Bourne has continued to pursue his interest in music education, working for a number
of years at Leeds College of Music, lecturing in principal study piano, composition
and composition analysis. He became Artist in Residence in 2008, leaving in 2010
to pursue his own projects as a leader.

Bourne continues to be in constant demand as a pianist and analogue synthesist and
has recorded and performed with Sam Hobbs, Franck Vigroux, Laurent Dehors, Marc 
Ducret, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Andrea Centazzo, Seaming To, Peter Wareham, Barre
Phillips, Roger Turner, Paul Dunmall, Tony Bevan, Annette Peacock and Nostalgia 
77.

![Картинки по запросу Matthew Bourne jazz](https://prodigaljazztalk.files.wordpress.
com/2013/01/mb.jpg?w=640)

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