The Flame
Robert Mitchell - keys; Ollie Brice - bass; Andrew Lisle - drums
Presented by: Jazz at The Oxford| 0 | LONDON: The Parakeet (info) |
|---|---|
| P | Monday 3rd February, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 8:00pm Start time: 8:30pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Music - Jazz/latin |
Event information
Robert Mitchell is an award-winning pianist, keyboard player, composer, songwriter, festival curator, poet, and author. He has recorded fourteen albums of his own projects, three poetry collections and participated in over 100 projects as a sideman and has performed in more than 40 countries. Apart from being a pianist, composer and innovator, he is a festival creator and curator as well as a highly respected educator. Robert also leads TRUE THINK, Epiphany3 and the Flame and is launching a new trio in 2025 with Laurie Lowe and Zayn Mohammed. He is a professor at Guildhall School Of Music And Drama (Jazz Piano), Royal Academy Of Music, Mentor/Task Force Member at Black Lives In Music, YMM teacher, Steinway Artist, EDI Lead at Music HE and recently taught/returned to the Paris Conservatoire and Pole Sup. Robert has won awards – BBC Jazz Awards (Innovation, as part of the F-ire Collective), Best Jazz Album (BBC DJ Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards), a Paul Hamlyn composition award and has been nominated for many more including 2017 British Jazz Composer Award. He is artst-in-residence at Morley College (2024/5). This is a debut for the Flame at the Parakeet. The Flame hey have released two highly acclaimed live albums on the NYC based label 577 Records.
“Robert Mitchell is one of Britain’s finest and most versatile pianist-composer-improvisors" The Wire
