Saxophonist & Composer
Trish’s performance of Joe Cutler’s new saxophone concerto ‘Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii’ is now available on iplayer for a month… also featuring Ross Stanley on Hammond Organ. The orchestra are conducted by Ben Palmer.
Straight after the concerto is a duo performance of ‘Abbott & Costello’ by Trish and Ross.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000czqy
‘Abbott & Costello’, my music video directed by Rose Hendry, was screened at Cannes Lions (the advertising wing of Cannes Film Festival) earlier this year as part of the VOW (The Voice of A Woman) Made By Her Showcase, and with this film Rose has been shortlisted for the VOW Awards 2019. Huge congratulations to Rose on this amazing achievement. If you haven’t seen our music video yet, take a look/listen! The music also features the talents of my band MY IRIS (with Chris Montague, Ross Stanley and James Maddren).
Tomorrow, Emulsion goes back to the Vortex Jazz Club where it all started in 2012… with a stellar line up (see below) … we’ll playing some new music I’ve written specially for the occasion, and a version of ‘I.F.’ from my latest album ‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’… Here we are playing it in Ireland last weekend:
I’ll also be playing an arrangement of a Marcel Dupre prelude with Ross Stanley – something we’ve been working on a little while…
The band are also playing some brilliant pieces by Nikki Iles, Hans Koller and Robert Mitchell…
The full line-up and programme is below… Hope to see you there!!! Tix here
Yours truly – saxophones, Louise McMonagle – cello, Lauren Weavers – oboe/cor anglais, Thea Spiers – violin, Nick Smart – trumpet, Max Welford – clarinets, Tim Giles – drums, Ross Stanley – piano/Hammond organ, Chris Montague – guitar, Catriona McDermid- bassoon, Misha Mullov-Abbado – bass
& special guest appearance from Nikki Iles – piano & accordion
Awakening – Nikki Iles
Full line up
Happy Mountain – Hans Koller
Full line up
Elegy (for the Unknown Leader) – Robert Mitchell
bass, bassoon, cello, saxophone, violin, piano, oboe, drums
Free improvisations
Elastic Band – Trish Clowes
Full line up
Anamnesis – Josephine Stephenson
solo cello
Prelude III – Marcel Dupre, adapted by Ross Stanley/Trish Clowes
saxophone & piano
Book of the Underworld – Leo Geyer
solo bassoon
Sing Me Softly of the Blues – Carla Bley
Full line up
Thanks to Ian Patterson for this really considered interview… talking about My Iris, my latest album, Wayne Shorter, social music, Donate4Refugees, Emulsion… loads of stuff.
I hope you enjoy reading! 🙂
Very pleased to announce that Emulsion is going back to the Vortex for its 8th edition on October 12th!
Tickets here
& more info on the Emulsion website
Images taken at the Ninety Degrees Gravity album launch with MY IRIS on May 7th 2019 at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street.
Rose Hendry shot the images on film.
On Monday at 11pm BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Now are broadcasting highlights from my album launch, a little earlier this month. It’ll be available online shortly after as well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gsl
It was a goodun, so I hope you enjoy!
Jazz saxophonist TRISH CLOWES tells Chris Searle why she and her band My Iris are so open to experiment
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/you-have-embrace-unknown
Very happy to announce, with the support of Arts Council England, that MY IRIS will be hosting a workshop 6.30-7.15pm on May 1st at the Gateway, ahead of our performance at 7.45pm. Please see details below:
Tomorrow sees the premiere of my Sinfonietta Short ‘Hero’ for solo bass, commissioned by the London Sinfonietta to be performed by Enno Senft. I’m really looking forward to hearing Enno perform the piece (at the World Premiere Wednesdays series) – he’s such an outrageous bass player!
In other news, today marks the 1 month countdown to the release of the new MY IRIS album ‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’… we’ve already had some great feedback (“Stunning” – Jazzwise, “Listen, and then listen again” – Fiona Talkington, “one of the most outstanding UK jazz albums to be released this year” – Marlbank) and our music video by director Rose Hendry will be released very very soon… We’ve also just added the Rochester International Jazz Festival (USA) to our tour dates…