A brief biography continued

1995

Tour of Lapland with Roger Turner and Arne Forsen and Arts Council tour of 'River Run'. Performance at Copenhagen 'Voices of the World' Festival with Roger Turner, Victoriaville Festival Canada with Veryan Weston. Appearances at Actual Festival Nancy, Moers New Jazz Festival, Bologna Angelica Festival, Salzburg Music Festival, Antwerp Wim Festival, Hanover International Sound Art Festival and Vocal Jazz Festival Novosibirsk Siberia. European tour with Tom Cora. "Makhno" at Munich Jazz and More Festival. Tours with ROOF and Bob Ostertag's Verbatim. American and Canadian tour with Ali, Studer, Doran. Premiered "Survival Songs" at Leipzig Opera House with David Moss. Feral Choir project Rotterdam. Revival of Blake's "Bright as Fire" with Mike Westbrook, and many other solo and ad hoc combination performances.

1997

Tour of UK with Pat Thomas and Scatter. Featured vocalist in Franz Koglmann's composition "O Moon My Pin-up" in Vienna. Title role in "Odysseus 7" a radio space opera, Bayericher Rundfunk Munchen. Performances in USA and Canada including Victoriaville Festival with Phil Minton Quartet. Lead vocalist in Carla Bley's revival of "Escalator Over the Hill" at Koln Festival. Salisbury Festival with the Westbrook "Blake". Solo concerts and broadcast for Saarbruken Radio. Touring throughout Europe with Tom Cora and Roof, playing major festivals. German tour with Phil Minton Quartet.

1998

European tour with Bob Ostertag. Short tour with Tom Cora and Roof. Feral Choir project at Musickzentrum Munich. Tour of Japan with S abu Toyozumi and Japanese musicians plus vocal workshops in Tokyo. Tour of England with Phil Minton Quartet and performance at Vandoeuvre Festival. Angelica Festival New music recording with Stephen Froleykes for Radio Bremmen. European tour with Carla Bley band french TV film of the Vienne concert. Tony Oxley's Band in Koln. Japan with Ostertag

1999

Concerts in USA with Phil Minton Quartet. Los Incontrolados in Paris Biel Festival with Roger Turner. Paris Festival with Fred Frith. Recording with Goudbeek and co. Tour and recording with Simon Nabatov. Uncool Festival with Scatter. Commision from Angelica Festival, Bologna - PAST with Veryan Weston at Moers. Ircam Paris with David Moss. Westbrook "Blake" London. Performance at Darmstadt mit Werner Cee. Fourth Wall video performance at National Theatre. Duos with Roger Turner and Veryan Weston and the Lindsay Cooper song project in Italy. Short solo tour of Russia, Leningrad, Moscow and Krasnoyarsk. A European Tour with 4 walls . The Human Noise Congress in Wiesbaden. Solo gigs in Denmark and Finland. Hessischer Rundfunk - live recording at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. The Klinker London with Bob Cobbing, Uri Cane project Munchen.

2000

The New Year Concert at Bimhuis Amsterdam with own quartet. Improvisers symposium Köln. French Tour with 4 Walls. Vocal Music for Dance and Performance Piece with Katrina Vogel at Arsenic Lausanne, Biel and Montreal. Solos in Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, MusikTriennale Koln, B Flat in Berlin, and Lancaster New Music Festival. A long Tour of Japan. Feral Choir workshops and performances Nancy and Lausanne. Contribution to the Kurt Schwitters celebration EXPO 2000 Hanover. Ouvree, vocal music for Boris Charnatz and dancers on a French Alp. With new trio TooT at Nickelsdorf Festival, Saalfelden and Gaudeamus Festivals with 4 Walls.

2001

Solo tour of Canada and USA. Music for German theatre production with Willi Kellers. Touring Germany and Austria with Russian pianist Simon Nabatov. Victoria Festival Canada with 4 Walls. Touring Italy with Dedication Orchestra. Tour of Korea and Japan with local musicians. Edinburgh Festival with Mike Westbrook. Workshops in Lyon France plus other performances with Toot, 4 Walls, Veryan Weston and Roger Turner and with Phil Minton quartet

2002

Tours of Sweden, Italy and France with 4 Walls. Feral Choir at Centre for Performance Research Cardiff. Feral Choir workshops and performances in Nancy,Berlin and Tokyo. Tour of Korea with local musicians. Extensive tours in Europe with Toot, Axon, 4 Walls and the Norwegians No Spagetti.

2003

Feral choir workshops in Trondheim Norway and Nantes France. Contemporary Music Tour in UK with Dedication Orchestra. Canadian tour with Five Men Singing. Feral Choir at Mulhouse Festival. Total Music Meeting Berlin with King Ubu Orchestra plus many more one-night tours with Toot, 4 Walls, Roger Turner and a tour with Sweat with Lucas Niggli and Ensemble New Music Zurich.

2004

Tour of Japan with local musicans. Played in Artaud inspired Men in Tribulation, a Muziektheatre Transparant production for the Holland Festival and Kunstfestival des Arts Brussels and Melbourne International Arts Festival with the Insttiute of Living Voice. Koln triannual festival with Simon Nabatov, Feral choir workshops at Angelica Festival Bologna, French Music Day Festival Paris, Europa Festival Le Mans, Kunstkoters Festival Amsterdam. Solo performances in Nickelsdorf, Toot Tour, Feral choir in Warsaw, yodelling workshop Dartington, Back to the Roots Festival tour in South Africa with Louis Maholo. French TV film of 4walls.

2005

European tours with Toot and 4Walls. Feral Choirs in Florence, Nantes, Brest Pau and Bristol. Awarded Nesta Dream fellowship for feral choir projects, Tokyo homeless workshops. performances with Tim Hodgkinson, workshops UK prison. feral choir of 200 children Zurich. With Dedication orchestra at Vancouver Jazz festival, A Wilisau jazz festival project with Koch, Studer, Schutz and Barron, High Zero Festival, Baltimore, North of England tour with Roger Turner, yodelling in Swiss alpes for Knut Remond's Proverbs of Hell, Paris broadcast with Sophie Agnel, Artist in residence Strasbourg Conservatoire of Music. Sang on Richard Barratt's radio project for SWR Baden Baden.

2006

Artist in res. Strasbourg. Feral choir Performance and workshop Mills College Callifornia, Vocal workshop in Californian prison, Sean Bergens song mob at the new Bim Amsterdam, Lyric Theatre feral choir project with outreach workshops in local commuity, First performance of John Cage's Mesostics at Cambridge Black Mountian college weekend, performace with Roger Turner Leipsig vocal jazz festival. wth Gunter Christman at Museum of Modern Art Bremen, European tour with 4Walls, Feral choir performance at International Festival of Voice Aberystwyth with outreach voice workshops. Solo, Feral choir performaces, outreach workshops and concerts with local players, (British Council) in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Brazil. The Avignon festival with Sophie Agnel, performances at Nickelsdorf Festival with 4Walls, Axon and Grübenklang. "Feral choirs" in Warsaw and Liverpool. concerts in Germany with Hirt and Butcher. With "TooT" in Liverpool and Sweden, Austrian tour with Axon, more concerts in Germany with Grubenklang and performances at Strasbourg Jazzdor Festival with 4walls, Roger Turner plus voice students from Strasbourg Conservatoire and a feral choir with people from the town. + various other things as well.                    

2007

Feral choir project at Carnegy Center and concerts at the "Time Flies" Festival Vancouver. Solo at the Kraak Festival in Belgium. The "Voices Amsterdam" Festival. Images Festival Toronto with Michael Snow. Feral choir in Trondheim. Soloist in Mike Svoboda composition "adorno" (sex, drugs and new music), for the Westbrook "Blake" in London also the Ferals at the Klinker and Resonance Radio. Radio Festival Vienna with Veryan Weston. Voice workshops in Rome, the Smithfield festival with Richard Barrett and performed in "House" a production by "Musiktheatre Transparant" at Signal Theatre Antwerp and at the Zurich Festival. With "TooT" at Music Triennial Koln. The Nickelsdorf Festival with the "Feral Choir" and yodeling with Eugene Chadbourne.
Pori Festival with Roger Turner, concerts with "Speeq" and "No Walls" in Moers and Bratislava, with the "Feral Choir" at Brightons "Colour Out of Space" Festival and at Oslo "Light" Festival, a solo radio performance "Breathing Out" for Belgian radio, the "Plaque Songs" at the Barbican. duos with Hugh Medcalf, Maggie Nichols, Audrey Chen, Daunik La John Russell. The "Feral Choir" in Lille and the "Phil Minton Quartet" with Mouthful of Ecstasy, Ars Cameralis in Katowice, Poland and the "Feral Choir" in Brussells, pheeeew + a few other things too

2008

"Feral Choirs" in Oslo, Vienna and Stavanger also performances of "House"  again in Stavanger Euro City of Culture. Duo with Roger Turner Allears Festival Oslo. Duo with Maggie Nichols at Battersee Arts.  Dutch TV with "Speeq" also Speeq concerts in Austria and Denmark. Solo voice in Laussane, radio and film with Martin Bloom in Germany, voice duos with Isabelle Duthoit in Lille and Geneva. Revival of "Ways" with Veryan Weston in Berlin.      < Back