Gus has worked in a variety of musical settings: jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music where he has performed with many leading players. Over the last five years she has established herself as an improviser of great skill and imagination playing with, among others Steve Beresford, John Russell, Hannah Marshall and Veryan Weston. Satoko graduated from the Royal College of Music where she studied with Itzhak Rashkovsky as a Joseph and Jill Karaviotis Scholar with prestigious awards such as the Ian Stouker Prize and the English Speaking Union Scholarship. During this time as a soloist she made her television debut in Japan, was invited to perform at the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Opera House with her Quartet and led the Menuhin School orchestra through Live Broadcast for Classic FM and the Menuhin Festival tour in Switzerland as well as at the Royal Albert and Queen Elizabeth Halls.
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In 1997, she was invited to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School on full scholarship with Natasha Boyarskaya and Lucia Ibragimova. She has since performed and recorded in the UK and Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Japan, Israel, RSA and USA. Her debut concerto performance was at the age of thirteen for the Anglo Japanese Society. Satoko began playing violin in Japan at the age of seven, two years later coming to England to study with Catherine Lord.
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His association with John Russell is both a musical one and that of co-organiser of the "Mopomoso" concert series during its time at the Red Rose. Recent concerts have included Vienna, Berlin and the USA. His transcription and arrangement of a Derek Bailey improvised guitar solo was heard on Radio 3 last year and a number of similar reinterpretations of Bailey's improvising have been recorded for CD release.įor many years he led the improvising group "Ensemble", which now gives occasional concerts with a flexible personnel.
Since then he has worked in such diverse areas as multi instrumentalist - primarily piano and trumpet - ensemble leader, composer and arranger.
There are no prior instructions given to the musicians and no direction is given during the performance, the unfolding music being the sole arbiter of choice.Ĭhris Burn (Piano, electronics, trumpets)Ĭhris has worked in and around free improvisation since the mid 1970s when he participated in "intuitive music" workshops with one time Stockhausen assistant Robin Maconie.
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In putting a Quaqua group together Russell says his basic philosophy has always been to extend and develop existing musical strands alongside a juxtaposition of the new and untried and that he sees this as a providing an extremely fertile basis for free improvisation. You will never have heard this music before and you will never hear it played live again. Each group coming together for the duration of a specific project and always featuring some of the most creative and individual improvisers around in previously unheard permutations. For nearly three decades no two of John Russell's Quaqua groups have ever been the same.
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