Jill Jarman
A jazz pianist and composer, Jill’s career includes
performance, writing and conducting.
Her jazz quartet, ‘Storm warning’, was an
important land mark in UK jazz fusion, with performances
and tours including
the Jazz café, Hackney Empire and the South bank jazz festival. The album,
‘spirit level’
(Zinc records) reached number one in the
DJ album chart.
Coming from a classical and jazz
background, Jill’s compositions, whether symphonies or ensemble pieces,
effortlessly merge musical boundaries. Opus 42 commissioned for an experimental string quartet
[Arts
council of
more conventional string quartet. While the Big band composition ‘Tunisian
Images’ is scored additionally
for jazz violin
Recent works include a contemporary piece for orchestra (soundwaves of light, 2006), combining the physics
of
light emissions from stars with musical frequencies; an unaccompanied chamber choir work (clouds, 2007) and
a commission for The Addison group of singers (The listening tree) premiered in London 2006.