Jazzwise Gig Guide

Award winning composer and bassist Yuriy Galkin has already established himself as one of the most creative jazz musicians of his generation. He has risen to the challenges of creating interesting and fresh textures for a nine-piece orchestra and has developed a unique musical language inspired by many cultures and traditions including jazz, classical and Latin music.

Galkin, a Royal Academy graduate, gained recognition for his extraordinary compositional skills in 2007, winning the UK Composition Competition (led by Tim Garland) and in 2010 the prestigious Dankworth Composition Prize for his piece ‘Evolvent’.

In 2008, Galkin formed the Symbiosis Orchestra, now the Yuriy Galkin Nonet, to perform his original compositions and arrangements. The Nonet features the very best of young British talent – Freddie Gavita (trumpet, flugelhorn), Steve Fishwick (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Stokes (trombone), George Crowley (tenor sax), Tamar Osborn (baritone and soprano saxes, bass clarinet), John Turville (piano), Dave Hamblett (drums) – and Russian Zhenya Strigalev (alto sax).