DAVE NEWTON & EUAN STEVENSON PIANO DUO

Doors Open 7pm
Performance Starts at 7.30pm

Keyboard fireworks and an uncanny telepathic musical understanding as award-winning pianists Dave Newton and Euan Stevenson perform virtuosic, swinging interpretations of jazz standards in a two piano/four hands format.

"A shared talent for witty reinvention...a marvellous new keyboard duo" - The Herald

"There is always more to Newton's playing than first meets the ear. The surface may be smooth, but there are all kinds of clever, subtle things going on beneath" - The Observer

"Stevenson exhibits nonchalant grace on the piano...clever, witty and serious music..." - The Scotsman

DAVE NEWTON is acknowledged as one of the country's finest jazz piano players, and has been voted "Best Jazz Pianist" in the British Jazz Awards a record 16 times.

Dave's early influences of Peterson, Garner and Tatum are clearly evident in his playing today. He has an ability to truly improvise and arrange on the spot, taking his listeners on a vivid musical journey utilizing his overriding melodic sense and infectious feel. A graduate of Leeds College of Music he moved to London in the early eighties quickly teaming up with jazz guitarist Martin Taylor, and saxophonists Alan Barnes, Don Weller and Art Themen and touring with Buddy De Franco. Dave has become one of the most in demand jazz pianist on the UK scene.

EUAN STEVENSON. Following studies with leading UK jazz pianist Liam Noble at Birmingham Conservatoire, Euan moved to Glasgow and became an in-demand player on the Scottish music scene. Whilst there, he was shortlisted for The Scottish Album of the Year Award, The Paul Hamlyn Award for Composition and most recently 'Best Instrumentalist' at the 2021 Scottish Jazz Awards, at which he shared accolades for 'Best Album' for co-writing, arranging and co-producing singer Georgia Cécile's debut album, Only The Lover Sings which reached number 3 in the UK official Jazz Charts, featuring across BBC Radio, Jazz FM and KJazz88 in the U.S.

Over the past decade, Euan has both collaborated, performed alongside, accompanied and written for, leading UK jazz musicians and vocalists, including David Newton (Newton/Stevenson Piano Duo), Jim Mullen, Tommy Smith (SNJO), Colin Steele, Anita Wardell and Tina May. From the US, he has worked with Grammy award-nominated vocalist Carla Cook and the tap dancer Andrew Nemr. Recent live highlights include supporting Gregory Porter at The Royal Albert Hall, several headline performances at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, Cheltenham and Love Supreme Jazz Festivals, Duc des Lombards (Paris) and The Blue Note (Milan).


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