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Alice Grace is a British jazz singer whose career began touring with established UK jazz big band The National Youth Jazz Orchestra and guest singing with the James Pearson Trio at the famous Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, before landing a place to continue her musical education at the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. 

Alice sang with a variety of jazz and soul ensembles performing at prestigious venues such as The Southbank Centre, The Barbican and the Royal Albert Hall in London, as well as more intimate jazz venues across the UK and Europe, sharing the stage with some of her biggest jazz influences; Norma Winstone, Jacqui Dankworth, Cleveland Watkiss and Pete Churchill.  

Since graduating with BMus Hons in 2010, Alice’s performing has taken her to many countries, including a two year stint in the Middle East where she co-founded Time Out award-winning band The Swing Revue; performing a packed schedule of high profile events and helping build a hugely successful residency at Jazz Pizza Express. 

On returning to the UK, Alice joined her husband in the north-east of England. Here she continues her work in all aspects of music: performing, recording and teaching. 

As the lead female singer with the Strictly Smokin’ Big Band, Alice performs regularly around the north of the UK, sharing the stage with jazz A-listers including Joe Stilgoe, Polly Gibbons, Bruce Adams, Alan Barnes, Paul Booth, Hailey Tuck, Anthony Strong and Mark Nightingale. 2018 saw the recording of duo album ‘A Timeless Place’ by Alice and guitarist Pawel Jedrzejewski, following their performance for the Jazz North East ‘Women Make Music’ series, as well as performances in Italy and Ibiza with jazz comrades The Playhouse Band. For Alice’s upcoming performance information please check out the EVENTS page at www.alicegracejazz.co.uk

Recent session work has included work for both commercial and private projects; such as Gala Bingo, Sky One’s Ultimate A Cappella, musical theatre backing vocals in addition to composition and recording for music production. For recording enquiries please get in touch via www.alicegracejazz.co.uk

Alongside performing, Alice has taught singing, piano and music theory for over 10 years and continues to teach from her home in Newcastle. For teaching enquiries please get in touch via www.alicegracejazz.co.uk

HITRA plays imaginative original music and improvisations. The band reunites four artists who have extensively investigated contemporary art forms. Inspired by a Norwegian County which covers hundred islands, islets and skerries, HITRA’s debut album Transparence (to be released soon) is a genre-fluid journey into lost and hidden places.

Hilmar Jensson, guitar
Alessandro Sgobbio, piano & composition
Jo Berger Myhre, bass
Øyvind Skarbø, drums

Marina Džukljev (SRB) is a pianist, educator and active performer in the fields of free improvisation, classical, contemporary and applied music.
She collaborates with wide range of multimedia artists across region and further such as: Dieb13, Franz Hautzinger, Joel Grip, Chris Pitsiokos, Jasper Stadhouders, Vasco Trilla, John Dikeman, Isabelle Duthoit, Tristan Honsinger, Richard Barrett, Hans Koch, Korhan Erel, Jonas Kocher, Michale Thieke, Luis Vicente, Christof Kurzmann, Biliana Voutckova and many others.
She is a member of the quartet, septet, tentet and the large ensemble of the composer and violist Szilard Mezei, with whom she has recorded and published music over the many years of collaboration.
Marina is an active member of duos Noid / Marina Džukljev,  dieb3/ Marina Dzukljev, Thieke / Džukljev, Raed Yassin/ Marina Džukljev duo, Belorukov/ Džukljev, trios: Mezei /Trilla / Džukljev, Flowers we are...(w Schellander and Noid) Trio, MRM trio, Weber/ Griener/ Džukljev Trio, quartets: TiTiTi (SI), Barrett/ Džukljev/ Voutchkova/ Zarić quartet and was a member of international ensemble Šalter, to name a few.
Marina is a curator and the organizer of Improstor - improvised music concert series and Festival in opposition in Novi Sad.

https://marinadzukljev.com/
https://marinadzukljev.bandcamp.com/

ÁRPÁD GYÖRGY KISS
improviser,trumpeter

A Brighton, UK based band with a sound that might have come about if New York No Wave had spent a lost weekend in New Orleans. Add to that hints of dive bar jazz, delta blues, East European folk and the dark lure of cabaret, and you have the seductive circus fanfare that is Caaw...

Portuguese trumpet player.
Born in 1997, in Lisbon. 

Studied at the Escola de Jazz Luiz-Villas Boas do Hotclube de Portugal and at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.

Works regularly with the Orquestra de Jazz do Hotclube de Portugal and has been in an internacional tour (Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic, and Germany) with the band Farra Fanfarra. 
He has worked with artists such as Albert Cirera, Susana Santos Silva, Rodrigo Amado, Gabriel Ferrandini, Pedro Alves Sousa, Hernâni Faustino, Miguel Mira, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Hugo Antunes, Mia Dyberg, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Yaw Tembe, Ricardo Martins, Norberto Lobo, Pedro Melo Alves, João Lopes Pereira, André Fernandes, Pedro Moreira, among others.

Member of "Chão Maior" by Yaw Tembe,
"GARFO" by Bernardo Tinoco,
Co-founder of the trio "Sismos" (Phillip Santos, João Carreiro,
Duo Almeida / Carlos Pinto, 
LUMP duo (Mariana Nunes).

Based in Dublin, with partners right across Europe, 12 Points showcases young, creative and ambitious artists in jazz and related music from all over Europe.

12 Points Festival alternates between Dublin and other European cities, next in Portugal in February 2012.
 www.12points.ie

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