11 Jun KSF Artists of Choice: UK Music Selection Panel
Thursday saw us working alongside some of the UK’s most high profile musicians and composers to meet with shortlisted applicants for KSF Artists of Choice: UK Music Category. You can read all about our selection panel below.
David Arnold is an English film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998) and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. For Independence Day he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television and for Sherlock he, and co-composer Michael Price, won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of “His Last Vow”, the final episode in the third series.
Chris Bye is Music Relationship Manager for the North at Arts Council England. Heavily involved in developing support for contemporary popular, alternative and electronica music. He has ensured funding for bands, festivals, labels and promoters at a regional level and continues to provide expert advice on how to get it, via panels, workshops and one-to-one sessions across the country. An enthusiast for emerging acts, Chris tips for Amazing Radio, BA, Tipping Point and Tom Robinson’s Fresh on the Net.
Ella Eyre is an English singer and songwriter who has featured on Rudimental’s Waiting All Night and DJ Fresh’s Gravity as well as her own hits Comeback, If I Go and new single Together, produced by Futurecut. Ella also co-wrote the number one hit, Changing, for Sigma, Ft. Paloma Faith. She has toured across America, Europe and the UK, most recently with Olly Murs and her debut album Feline will be released on 14 August 2015.
Patrick Hawes is a British composer, conductor, organist and pianist. He is best known for writing the Highgrove Suite for HRH The Prince of Wales, for being a Composer in Residence for Classic FM and for the Number One selling album Angel. He is currently working on several ventures including a clarinet concerto, a major project for Sony with Blur guitarist Alex James, and his biggest project to date – a choral symphony entitled The Great War Symphony – to be premiered in its entirety in 2018.
Peter Humphrey is a British musicologist and music producer working under the name of qAphqA. Current projects include Alt Orgy 2.0 (Hotel Elephant) and Night of Vice (Art Fix). Peter is one half of YouBlewItUp!, a music and visuals collaborative.
Gillian Moore is director of Music at Southbank Centre. She was appointed head of Classical Music in December 2011, having joined the organisation as head of Contemporary Culture in 2006. Gillian was awarded the Sir Charles Groves Award for services to British music, in 1992 she was created an honorary member of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and in 1994 she was awarded an MBE for services to music and education.
Paul Phoenix is a Grammy Award-winning singer. After 17 years and nearly 2,000 concerts performing, mentoring and coaching as tenor in one of the world’s most celebrated vocal ensembles, The King’s Singers, 2014 marked Paul Phoenix’ ‘retirement’ from The King’s Singers and the launch of a new phase: ‘Purple Vocals - Perform & Engage’. Purple Vocals is both an online and personal consultancy, coaching choirs, ensembles and individuals in a range of skills.
KSF Artists of Choice is a pioneering funding and mentoring initiative for UK and US based emerging artists working in theatre, musical theatre, music, dance or film. Epitomizing KSF’s aim of ‘sending the elevator back down’ it will provide funding, year-round support and mentoring by industry heavyweights. Once we’ve completed shortlist interviews in the UK and the US, we hope to announce our award recipients by early July.