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James
Hutchinson – piano, keyboards, programming
Oliver
Leaman – saxophones, live manipulation, efx
James Hutchinson
Info on
James will follow shortly…
Oliver Leaman
Watch Oliver play with e.s.p. on YouTube
Having won both the Bernard Burrel
Memorial Prize and the John Pollard Scholarship for Musical
Performance on the alto saxophone at the age of 17, Oliver went on to
study music at the University of Edinburgh where he won the Tovey Memorial Prize for Musical Performance,
the first saxophonist to achieve this distinction. As a result he was invited to play as a
soloist with the Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra. He was also leader of the jazz orchestra
for a Tartan Silk Production in the Edinburgh Festival.
While at university, Oliver became increasingly involved in music
education, becoming a visiting teacher at primary schools, a unit for young
offenders a high security prison and Drake Project Scotland
which works with physically and mentally handicapped adults and
children. This culminated with an
invitation from the organisation Warchild to
travel to Bosnia Herzegovina in March 1998 to work with children suffering
from trauma caused by the Balkan war.
In recognition of his
achieving a 1st for his performance recital he was awarded a Buchar Scholarship from
the University. With this grant he
took the opportunity to undertake a Masters in Saxophone Performance at the
Montréal Conservatoire of Music under the guidance of Monsieur Claude Brisson, saxophonist with the Montréal Symphony
Orchestra. Whilst in Canada
he played in masterclasses with Eugene Rousseau
and Henri Pousseur as well as performing in the Montreal
Chamber Music Festival and the International Jazz Festival. He was also the runner up in the Reptigency Chamber
Music Competition
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