An Audience with Simon Rose:
Sat 16th June 2007

Deadline for your application to participate : 14th th May [ do it now!]
Decision: Monday 15th, and has been made.

Phil Morton, Xavier Bosch, Phil Lucking, Simon Rose, Roger Parry Video/ you tube.

Frakture are presenting an An Audience with Simon Rose:UK Saxaphone, on Saturday 16th June. Exact time yet to be confirmed: and venue subject to confirmation.

Toxteth TV Sat 16th June 11.00 - 1.00 pm: £2.00

"An Audience with" format is an informal session with visiting musicians
arranged by Frakture. You are invited to express and interest in playing with Simon Rose. [Simon Rose details and biog are below]. To clarify you are not an audience! this is a music session you participate in!

This gives local musicians the chance to play with; meet; exchange ideas and working practices with visiting artists / musicians.

Who is going to be there
The "An Audience with" format is not an "open door policy" or "drop in
centre" approach: likewise the sessions are not run along the "The Commons / Open Session " format.

You indicate your interest via the Frakture website at
http://www.frakture.org/easyaudiencewith.htm

Often those who submit their interest will attend . Frakture will select
participants with the idea of achieving what we perceive as a complimentary array of musicians covering "a range" of instrumentation and abilities. The session is limited to six.

When will Frakture inform those are participating.
We will reply to everyone by Tuesday May 15th: regarding who is being
invited to attend.

Charge
There is a charge of £2.00 to cover the cost of room hire.

All welcome to apply, we look forward to the session: previous sessions
"audience with" include: Allassandro Bosetti; Emily Hay & Pal Pettersen. All Session have been excellent: this session is likely to be so too. Simon also apprears at Splash Gig 15th June, solo sax.

Simon Rose website : http://www.simonrose.org/

Simon is best known in the field of free improvisation as leader of the trio 'badland' together with Simon Fell on double bass and Steve Noble on drums. They have toured extensively had three albums released a number of radio sessions including a session for BBC Jazz on 3 (with a fourth CD recording currently in preparation).

During the mid 90's he established Club Orange with tenor saxophonist John Grieve. .A fortnightly, then weekly club for free jazz and mprovised music in north London. It quickly became a venue where just about everyone from the improvised music scene in this country as well as some from Europe and from north America could be seen.

Simon has performed, with for example: Adam Bohman, Matt Hutchinson, Mark Sanders, Oren Marshal, Dave Tucker, Phil Alexander and many others. Current projects include 'badland', solo, and recent performances have been trios with Roger Turner and John Edwards and a second with Dominic Lash and Paul May. Simon has performed solo over the course of the last five years. Influences are broad and as well as European and American ideas relating to free improvisation (from those such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink) he is also interested in musical ideas on particularly wind and especially reed instruments as used historically throughout the world and particularly in Asia.

As well as a saxophonist Simon is a very experienced teacher and has taught music and drama in different settings both full and part time. Much of his teaching work has been with young people who have special educational needs. He is currently doing an MA (Professional Practice) concerned with performance and education. Simon lives in north London with partner Julie Myers video artist and their daughter Lydia.

END OF BIOG:

• web-forms: those musicians who cannot access easyaudiencewith form may send an email to mailto:splash@frakture.org.
• Please don't use the phone: any other email address or rely on personal verbal requests.
• Please consider that it easier for Frakture's voluntary staff to manage this event if we all use the one method of communication.

This event is funded and subsidised by the voluntary work and input of those involved.

Frakture ackowledges the financial support of the PRS Foundation.