CHRIS GARRICK
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Classic Fusion, Swing, Pop, Art Song, Folk • United Kingdom

Chris Garrick is an improvising violinist and a composer with an international reputation. His father, the pianist and composer Michael Garrick, gave him a valuable early insight into jazz music, while on the classical side he gained equal inspiration from the heroic recordings of the great Lithuanian virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. But it was jazz that prevailed and by eleven he was performing with Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and jamming with Nigel Kennedy!  He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1989 to 1994 and became the first jazz musician ever to be awarded their highest accolade – the DipRAM. Now based in the Pyrenees Orientales close to Prades, with its annual Festival de Pablo Casals, he charts a multi-musical life in jazz, pop and rock, gypsy, tango and film. His solo violin can be heard on various soundtracks including those of Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Chocolat, Big Fish read more...