Issie Barratt
Issie Barratt (UK) -
composer/baritone sax
Issie Barratt is an internationally active composer, conductor, arranger, baritone sax player and educator, who has performed at a majority of Britain's leading concert halls, jazz clubs and festivals. Issie is also leading a worldwide research project looking at why there are so few women jazz musicians, and will involve JCFK in this research.
Known for her commitment to composing works that forge creative relationships between musicians from the orchestral and jazz worlds, Issie has been awarded commissions by the the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, 4th Dimension String Quartet, Delta Sax Quartet, Vortex Foundation Big Band, Conservatoires UK Big Band and more recently Sweden's Bohuslän Big Band and UK's Voice of the North; was twice awarded funds from both The PRS Foundation for New Music and Youth Music and was featured as one of the Jerwood Foundation's Rising Stars in the Cheltenham Jazz Festival of 2001. Over the last 5 years various European performances have featured internationally acclaimed artists.
composer/baritone sax Issie Barratt is an internationally active composer, conductor, arranger, baritone sax player and educator, who has performed at a majority of Britain's leading concert halls, jazz clubs and festivals. Issie is also leading a worldwide research project looking at why there are so few women jazz musicians, and will involve JCFK in this research.
Known for her commitment to composing works that forge creative relationships between musicians from the orchestral and jazz worlds, Issie has been awarded commissions by the the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, 4th Dimension String Quartet, Delta Sax Quartet, Vortex Foundation Big Band, Conservatoires UK Big Band and more recently Sweden's Bohuslän Big Band and UK's Voice of the North; was twice awarded funds from both The PRS Foundation for New Music and Youth Music and was featured as one of the Jerwood Foundation's Rising Stars in the Cheltenham Jazz Festival of 2001. Over the last 5 years various European performances have featured internationally acclaimed artists.
Higher Education
Having established and headed Trinity College of Music's (www.tcm.ac.uk) Jazz Faculty (1999-2004), Issie now holds the position of Trinity College's Senior Jazz Fellow, giving her more time for her compositional and touring activities, while still enabling her to contribute towards the College's ever developing Jazz programme as well as directing the College's Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (who have
Having established and headed Trinity College of Music's (www.tcm.ac.uk) Jazz Faculty (1999-
2004), Issie now holds the position of Trinity College's Senior Jazz Fellow, giving her more time for her compositional and touring activities, while still enabling her to contribute towards the College's ever developing Jazz programme as well as directing the College's Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (who have performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, as well as London venues, such as Blackheath Halls, Jazz in the Round, Ronnie Scotts and The Bulls Head).
Youth Projects
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Youth Projects
- Artistic Director for the Jazz Services' National Youth Jazz Summer School , which is funded by Youth Music and will be hosted by Leeds College of Music.
- Jazz adjudicator for Music for Youth's annual national festival (2001 onwards) working along side fellow adjdicators Charlie Beale, Michael Garrick, Trevor Tomkins and Steve Waterman.
- "On the Slide, Sweet" co-led by Dennis Rollins May 2004 commissioned by Youth Music and the Cheltenham Jazz Festival May 2004. www.cheltenhamfestivals.com
- Greenwich and Lewisham Youth Jazz Orchestra at Blackheath Halls with co-leaders Annie Whitehead and Andrea Vicari (2004-5) with termly performances at Blackheath Halls and Deptford Albany Theatre.
- Composer in residence for various educational projects led by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Age of Enlightenment's education department with residencies in Bedford, Basingstoke, Leicester and various London boroughs (1996 - 2000)
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