![]() ![]() He works frequently in film and television for composers such as Lorne Balfe, Gabriel Jared, Danny Elfman, Max Richter, Anne Dudley, Howard Shore, George Fenton, Rachel Portman, Erran Baron-Cohen, Stephen Warbeck, Mark Thomas, Jodie Jenkins and Rob Lane. He formed the band Spirit O’ Stephane to celebrate the music of Grappelli. He has worked with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Julian Joseph, Bireli Lagrene, Dolly Parton, All About Eve, Van Morrison, Luka Bloom, Martin Taylor, Brian Ferry, the Danish Radio Band & Caro Emerald. He has made tours of the Far East and Australia with guitarist John Etheridge in a tribute to Stephane Grappelli and in 2001 he toured Israel with Dame Cleo Laine and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. His performance at the Genius of the Violin Festival in 2004 led to invitations to perform Piazzolla's Seasons with Sir Barry Wordsworth at the Brighton Dome and then in London, at the Royal Festival Hall, in 2008. He has toured and recorded extensively with Parisian guitar virtuoso Angelo Debarre and is a member of Alec Dankworth's Spanish Accents. In 1989 Nobody’s Quartet entered the Daily Telegraph Young Jazz Competition winning joint first place in the final round. In 1987, aged 16, he established his first group Nobody’s Quartet with James Pearson (p), Allan Simpson (g) and Jon Noyce (b). Christian was subsequently made an Associate of the Royal Academy. He studied at London's Royal Academy of Music between 19 gaining first-class honours in his performers' degree and winning the DipRAM in his post-graduate year. Among the many influential resident and visiting staff at the RAM were Hugh Fraser, Martin Speake, Nick Ingham, Steve Coleman, Jack Dejohnette, Chucho Valdez, Arturo Sandoval, Gary Peacock and Kenny Wheeler. Youngest brother, Matthias, is a busy sound engineer and producer. Matthias has worked for the likes of Travis, Tim Minchin, Grace Jones and Thundercat.Ĭhristian leant Suzuki method with local teacher Joan Penrose of Berkhamsted. Studies continued with Bernard Blay of Hitchin followed by an influential apprenticeship with the great British jazz violinist John Van Derrick. Gabriel runs the successful Jazz Academy music courses incepted by Michael Garrick. There, a youthful Christian would brush shoulders with the likes of Olivier Messiaen, Itzhak Perlman, Klaus Tennstedt or Zubin Mheta.Īt 6, he met Stephane Grappelli at The Stables in Wavendon, an encounter that would influence him and his playing enormously.īrother, Gabriel, is an accomplished trumpeter and teacher. Some days would involve encounters with the likes of Jaco Pastorius, Spike Milligan, Nigel Kennedy or even Petula Clarke and others perhaps a trip to the Royal Festival Hall, where mum would be singing with the London Philharmonic Choir. Meanwhile mother, Susan Robinson, taught piano and clarinet peripatetically. ![]() ![]() In this musical maelstrom of a household his father, Michael Garrick MBE, played jazz piano, composing music all day and night-long. Growing up in a 4-storey town house in leafy Hertfordshire, England, with mother and father musicians, two brothers, four pianos, a harpsichord and a goldfish set the compass on a course for a life in music. Christian was born in 1971 and began violin aged five. ![]()
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