Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford | |
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Background information | |
Born | Wellington, Shropshire, England | 6 March 1950
Occupation(s) | Musician, teacher |
Instruments | Melodica, toy piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar |
Associated acts | Portsmouth Sinfonia |
Steve Beresford (born 6 March 1950) is a British musician who graduated from the University of York He has played a variety of instruments, including piano, electronics, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He has also played a wide range of music. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.
Career[]
Beresford played in Derek Bailey's Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with and . He was also a member with Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, and Han Bennink. He has collaborated extensively with Swiss-American artist/musician Christian Marclay and is member of the London Improvisers Orchestra.
From 2010 he performed various pieces by John Cage, including Indeterminacy with Tania Chen and comedian Stewart Lee, and a performance with Ilan Volkov at The BBC Proms 2012[1] at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including Ray Davis, The Slits, Frank Chickens, Ted Milton and The Flying Lizards. In 2015 he performed a duoproject with the upcoming Norwegian singer Natalie Sandtorv at the Blow Out! festival in Oslo, Norway.[2]
He was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2012.[3][4] He is a senior lecturer on the Commercial Music course at University of Westminster.[5]
Beresford's music and his teachings have inspired the musical community in the UK for over a decade. British songwriter and performer Katy Carr cites Steve Beresford's lectures on musical themes associated with Free improvisation, Experimental music, John Cage, musique concrète, Diamanda Galás and The Slits as a source of initial inspiration with regards to the creation of her debut album, Screwing Lies released in 2001.
Discography[]
- 1975 Teatime with Nigel Coombes, John Russell, Dave Solomon, Garry Todd (Incus)
- 1980 Whirled Music with Paul Burwell, Max Eastley, David Toop (Quartz Publications)
- 1980 White String's Attached with Nigel Coombes (Bead)
- 1980 The Bath of Surprise (Piano)
- 1980 Imitation of Life with Tristan Honsinger, Toshinori Kondo, David Toop (Y)
- 1981 Double Indemnity with Tristan Honsinger (Y)
- 1986 Deadly Weapons with Tonie Marshall, David Toop, John Zorn (Nato)
- 1986 Dancing the Line with Anne Marie Beretta (Nato)
- 1987 Avril Brise (Cinenato)
- 1987 Directly to Pyjamas with Han Bennink (Nato)
- 1988 L'Extraordinaire Jardin De Charles Trenet (Chabada)
- 1989 Pentimento (Cinenato)
- 1995 Signals for Tea (Avant)
- 1996 Short in the U.K. with Palmer, Stagner, Turner (Incus)
- 1996 Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
- 1996 Fish of the Week (Scatter)
- 1997 Two to Tangle with Nigel Coombes (Emanem)
- 1999 Foxes Fox with Evan Parker, John Edwards, Louis Moholo (Emanem)
- 2001 3 Pianos with Pat Thomas, Veryan Weston (Emanem)
- 2002 Cue Sheets II (Tzadik)
- 2002 Steve Beresford (Kabukikore)
- 2002 B + B with Han Bennink (Instant Composers Pool)
- 2003 Live at the Friends Meeting House (Planet Mu)
- 2003 Trap Street with Alan Tomlinson, Roger Turner (Emanem)
- 2003 Guarda Avanti with Mike Cooper, Max Eastley, Viv Dogan Corringham, Lol Coxhill (Hipshot)
- 2004 I Shall Become a Bat (Qbico)
- 2004 Ointment with Tania Chen (Rossbin)
- 2009 Check for Monsters with Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans (Emanem)
- 2011 Wels, Mulhouse, Paris & Lyon with Noel Akchote, Andrew Sharpley
- 2011 Ink Room with Stephen Flinn, Dave Tucker (Creative Sources)
- 2011 Snodland with Matt Wilson (Nato)
- 2012 Indeterminacy with Tania Chen, Stewart Lee (Knitted)
- 2012 Berlin Toy Bazaar with Anna Homler, Richard Sanderson (Linear Obsessional Recordings)
- 2013 Overground to the Vortex with Francois Carrier, Michel Lambert, John Edwards (Not Two)
- 2013 Three Babies with Martin Kuechen, Stale Liavik Solberg (Peira)
- 2014 Passages with Shezad Dawoo (Op.50)
- 2015 Will It Float? with Russell, Edwards, Liavik Solberg (Va Fongool)
- 2015 Outgoing with Francois Carrier, John Edwards, Michel Lambert (FMR)
- 2015 Live at White Cube
- 2015 Blow Out! with Paal Nilssen-Love, Stale Liavik Solberg (Konsertforeninga)
- 2017 Kontakte Trio with Trevor Taylor, Ian Brighton (FMR)
- 2017 Hesitantly Pleasant Mike Caratti, Rachel Musson (Iluso)
- 2017 Live in Prague with Houtcamp, Blume
- 2018 Pleasures of the Horror with Eugene Chadbourne, Alex Ward (Bisou)
- 2019 All Will Be Said, All to Do Again with Sarah Gail Brand, John Edwards, Mark Sanders (Regardless)
References[]
- ^ "BBC Proms 2012 Prom 47 listing". Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Jazz In Oslo: BLOW OUT! FESTIVAL 2015 – MATINÉ". JazzInOslo.no. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Paul Hamlyn Awards for Artists 2012 listing". Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ Steve, Beresford. "PHF Award for Artists". Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ^ "University of Westminster website". Retrieved 27 January 2013.
Notes[]
- Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Canada: [1]
- Christoph Wagner: Steve Beresford in "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik",Schott Music,Mainz,Germany, 2007
External links[]
- Steve Beresford discography at Discogs
- ^ "European Free Improvisation". Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Free jazz pianists
- Free improvisation
- English experimental musicians
- Alumni of the University of York
- People from Wellington, Shropshire
- Tzadik Records artists
- Avant-garde jazz pianists
- 21st-century pianists
- Incus Records artists