2006-06-27 11:49:05

Prsf Award Paul has been awarded a fat commission to write an extended work for the Wales Jazz Composers Orchestra, and to be its composer in residence. The piece, entitled In Syllables, will be premiered at the HSBC Brecon Jazz Festival, and is the first large-scale work commissioned for the WJCO.
In Syllables features a whole host of mad ideas and a number of structures not readily associated with jazz, including, at one point, a fugue. Paul says that: “For the WJCO, I wanted to use these styles to combine formal composition with improvisation and to emphasis the way in which jazz is all about group interaction within a given framework." It also includes the word blesinsyla- so watch out!!