Pete Churchill's Choir Workshop

Presented by: Cambridge Jazz Festival

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0	CAMBRIDGE: Forum Hall, Jesus College
P	Sunday 27th November, 2022
N	2:30pm

Event information

Pete Churchill's Choir Workshop
Sunday 27th Nov 2022
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Venue: Forum Hall, Jesus College
Time: 3:00 - 5:00pm
Tickets: £10 / £5 under 25s + booking fee
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Under-14s should be accompanied by an adult.

Communal singing is one of the most accessible and uplifting ways to bring people together through music.

We are delighted to welcome back jazz composer, performer, conductor and educator Pete Churchill, for an accessible singing workshop for all abilities.

He will teach the groove-based harmonies by ear so you don’t need any previous singing experience or an ability to read music - just enthusiasm and a willingness to try something new!

Pete Churchill has been working as a composer, pianist, singer and teacher for almost 30 years. After twenty years teaching at the Guildhall, Pete is now Professor of Jazz Composition at the Royal Academy of Music and Head of Jazz Voice at the Brussels Royal Conservatoire.​
Teaching regularly across Europe, Australia and the Far East (Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore), Pete is recognised in the UK as being at the forefront of jazz education – receiving the Parliamentary Award for Jazz Education in 2007 and nominated again in 2012 and 2017.

Being founder/director of ‘The London Vocal Project’ (LVP) led to work with Sir John Dankworth & Dame Cleo Laine and Bobby McFerrin. In 2013, LVP recorded the critically acclaimed CD ‘Mirrors’ with Ken Wheeler and Norma Winstone MBE. In 2017, after a lengthy collaboration with the jazz singer/lyricist Jon Hendricks, Pete and LVP travelled to New York to give the world premiere of Jon Hendricks' ‘Miles Ahead’.

As a pianist, Pete spent 15 years as accompanist to the legendary jazz singer Mark Murphy and more recently worked with Sheila Jordan. He has been a member of both Kenny Wheeler’s and Abdullah Ibrahim’s Vocal Projects and was privileged to be the conductor of the Kenny Wheeler Big Band, culminating in its final album, ‘The Long Waiting’.