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Debut album FATIMA (Deluxe) OUT NOW! ف
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Avatar are an Irish duo Jah Bass and Tony O' Flaherty. They have formed a musical partnership which highlights original music written by Jah Bass.  Their main influences are Jamaican Dub and the music of Miles Davis. To date they have released four original albums : Summa Iru ; Like River To Ocean ; Resting In Alaya ; Ancient Echoes . They have also recorded an original single with legendary Jamaican singer BB Seaton of The Gaylads, called 'Cart before the Horse'. They have recorded a cover of the Standard ' Sit Right Down And Write myself A Letter' for The Specialised Project and feature on a remix album called 'In Dub'for The Senior Allstars. Both live & in the studio Avatar have an impressive brass section ,explosive percussion & deep drum & bass.Their albums feature contributions from legendary  Jamaican vocalists Carlton 'Tetrack 'Hines, Norris Reid & Ricky Grant as well as UK artist Miri and Ireland's Aine Whelan and Mary O' Regan and Patrick Johnson. Also involved in their projects are Uk Jazz giant Trevor Mires on trombone. Ireland's Paul Dunlea is an album regular on  trombone. Paul Frost has featured on bass trombone. Ireland's premier jazz tenor sax player Michael Buckley is a regular outstanding contributor to Avatar's recordings . Trumpet duties have been taken up by Roy Kelleher and Nick Kirwan. Drummers include their mainstay Martin Leahy  as well as contributions from Dick O' Shea ; Laurie Hedger; Donie Moore and Tony O' Flaherty. Swiss percussionist Martin Scharer also makes several guest appearences.  The band have also recorded tracks with Jamaican artists Margra Dread Gregory & Faada Ras as well as with Irish  artist Aisling Urwin. Booking info at avatardub @gmail.com. 

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Piers Maxim is a former boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Having received his degree in Music at Cambridge University he continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
Composing music since he was 7 years old, he had songs, carols and piano works published while still at school. Composition highlights over the years, include commissions for a National Childrens Home celebration in Winchester Cathedral (The Land of Lost Content, and the millennium eve service of celebration at Southwark Cathedral, in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II (And I said to the Man).
As conductor, assistant conductor and chorus master, he has worked regularly in the opera houses and theatres of Europe, including Staatsoper Berlin, La Monnaie Brussels, Le Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris, and the Netherlands Nationale Reisopera, with whom he conducted Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck, and performances of Così fan Tutte (Mozart) and Orfeo ed Euridice (Haydn).
In 2004 Piers Maxim made his Scottish Opera debut, conducting performances of Aida (Verdi) and La Bohème (Puccini). From September of that year he was Chef des Choeurs at Le Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie Brussels, where he worked on around 40 operas on stage and in concert, also conducting performances of Agrippina, Giulio Cesare (Handel), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), La Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini), and the Concert de Noël 2007 comprising works by Saint-Saëns and Respighi, and both Iphigénie operas by Gluck.
As Assistant Conductor to René Jacobs, he has worked on many Handel operas and oratorios. He features as harpsichord soloist on the harmonia mundi (France) recording of Rinaldo, and was Musical Assistant to Jacobs on the recordings of the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas.
As conductor of several choirs and choruses in England, Piers Maxim has conducted most of the choral and choral-symphonic repertoire, including Messiah and Saul (Handel), Mass in B minor (Bach), Mass in C minor (Mozart), Elijah (Mendelssohn), The Dream of Gerontius (Elgar), Sea Symphony(Vaughan Williams), Carmina Burana (Orff), A Child of our Time (Tippett)...
Piers Maxim made his USA debut conducting Die Zauberflöte at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York in April 2007. This same production then toured to Cape Town and Johannesburg in September 2007, where Maxim received glowing critiques.
At the end of June 2009, Maxim left La Monnaie to pursue his freelance career, and to concentrate on his composing. That Summer saw him returning to the Aix-en-Provence Festival to assist René Jacobs on Die Zauberflöte. The 2009-2010 season at La Monnaie saw Maxim invited as Chef du Choeur for several productions, also assisting Christophe Rousset on Semele (Handel) and the Iphigénie operas by Gluck.
In October 2010 he conducted the first performance of a staged baroque opera in China, when he led a performance of Semele (Handel) in the Beijing Music Festival, with soloists Jeremy Ovenden and Yeree Suh, the China Philharmonic and English Voices.
Recent composition projects include An Animals' Nativity for The Church of Scotland in Brussels, and a choral-symphonic setting of Longfellow, which was joint winner of the Longfellow Chorus Cantata Composition Competition 2011 in the USA.  He wrote an oratorio commission, The Musket Ball, for soloists, choir and orchestra, which was first performed in March 2016 in The Old Royal Naval Chapel, Greenwich.
Piers is now Director of Music at Great Malvern Priory, Elgar Chorale of Worcester, and until 2017, was Conductor of Epsom Chamber Choir. He is also Guest Conductor of EC4 Orchestra, based in the City of London.

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