Biography

Twenty four year old Lluis Mather is a 2010 Yamaha Jazz Scholar and a first class graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire, where completed his degree in June 2010 on the saxophone, clarinet and flute, with a strong emphasis on composition, and won the Dave Holland Ensemble Award.

He has performed headline sets at Cheltenham and Harmonic, amongst other national jazz festivals, with his main ensemble Noose (recorded by Yamaha for a cover-mounted CD on Jazzwise magazine), who completed their first album (High Windows) in May 2010, and is now readying a second album with the ensemble.

Lluis is also touring with the Hans Koller Ensemble led by composer Mike Gibbs, performing dates at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham, and Kings Place, London, alongside a stellar cast of some of the UK's leading musicians.

Lluis had an extensive practical education at Birmingham Conservatoire, where he received tuition from Jean Toussaint, Julian Siegal, Mike Williams and Hans Koller, and by visiting tutors such as Jeff Williams, Paul Dunmall and Mike Gibbs. In 2008 he toured with the C.UK big band to Toronto's IAJE conference alongside Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone.

Between 2004 and 2010 he was also a member the nationally renowned Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra (unbeaten in the BBC big band competition). In this band he experienced playing alongside respected guest artists (Stan Sultzmann, Julian Siegel, Henry Lowther, Dave O'Higgins). Originally from near Leicester, Lluis began performing in the Leicester Arts ensembles.