Guy Barker THE AMADEUS PROJECT with narrator Michael Brandon and an All Star Jazz Orchestra including Rosario Giuliani and Byron Wallen

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THE AMADEUS PROJECT
A Global Mix Media Production for ESIP Limited

3 December
Pieces from ‘The Amadeus Suite’
‘dZf’

To celebrate the release of The Amadeus Project on Global Mix, Guy Barker will be performing pieces from ‘The Amadeus Suite’ and ‘dZf’ with an All Star Jazz Orchestra made up of famous jazz performers including Rosario Giuliani and Byron Wallen.

In 2006 Guy Barker was asked to compose original music for BBC Radio 3 and the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, California to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.

DZf, commissioned by Radio 3’s Jazz Line Up, is a 75-minute suite written for the 14-piece Jazz Orchestra and narrator – Michael Brandon. It tells a revamped and modernised version of the story of The Magic Flute, Mozart’s final opera (Die Zauberflöte). Barker invited his friend, thriller writer Robert Ryan, to take the original story and transform it into a dark, ‘Jazz Noir’ tale. The music reflects the script Ryan produced and intertwines with the narration. “The magic is certainly present in Barker’s magnificent composition, and this is just the beginning for dZf”. Sholto Byrnes, The Independent

The San Diego commission, The Amadeus Suite, is a set of pieces inspired by characters from Mozart’s operas. The music was originally written for a 9-piece US band that included pianist/composer Roger Kellaway and alto sax player Rosario Giuliani. The music was described as “witty, wacky, sexy, swinging and thoroughly enjoyable”. Sandiego.com. For the release of the album Barker has extended and rearranged the music to suit the Jazz Orchestra.

Narrator: Michael Brandon

Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra:
Guy Barker: trumpet
Nathan Bray, Tom Rees Roberts & Byron Wallen: trumpets/flugelhorns
Barnaby Dickinson & Alistair White: trombones
Mark Frost: bass trombone
Rosario Giuliani: alto/soprano saxophones
Graeme Blevins: tenor saxophone/clarinet/flute
Per "Texas" Johansson: tenor saxophone/contra bass clarinet/flute/clarinet
Phil Todd: baritone saxophone/tubax/flute/alto flute/piccolo
Jim Watson: piano/Hammond organ/Fender Rhodes
Phil Donkin: bass:
Ralph Salmins: drums/percussion

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