Tinker Tuesdays #01. A simple idea. Me, a choice few bits of studio kit, a live jam and a camera. Once a week.

Tinker Tuesdays #01

Tinker Tuesday #01

Composer for TV (Wizards Vs Aliens, The Sarah Jane Adventures CBBC, For Neda HBO, The Story of the Costume Drama & The Rock n' Goal Years ITV), Guitarist, Pianist and general lover of noise making.

Elspeth Hanson is the Viola / 5 String Violin player in the multimillion album selling electric string quartet 'Bond'. She is currently studying for a Masters in Violin Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.

Elspeth has collaborated with Philip Sheppard http://philipsheppard.com/about/ and recorded / performed the music for the London 2012 Handover sequence at the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony. She recorded an improvised violin solo for the Olympic sequence (entitled This Is London) alongside the London Symphony Orchestra, and together with Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis performed a new version of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love for the culmination of the ceremony.

Elspeth has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Manchester and is a researcher of Ethnomusicology. She has written papers on Gaelic resurgence and revivalism in music. She is also starting out her work as a composer of folk music for film and television.

She is on Twitter http://twitter.com/elshanson

Tinker Tuesday #01

Dan Watts