Elliot Galvin (born 1991) is a British musician and composer based in

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. He plays

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis ...

kalimba Mbira ( ) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and p ...

microtonal Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones— intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of t ...

melodica The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usu ...

, accordion and

stylophone The Stylophone is a miniature analog electronic keyboard musical instrument played with a stylus. Invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis, it entered production in 1968, manufactured by Dubreq. Some three million Stylophones were sold, mostly as chi ...

. His primary artistic vehicle is the eponymous Elliot Galvin Trio. He is also a member of the jazz ensembles

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and Emma-Jean Thackray's WALRUS. Galvin has exhibited work at the

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art gallery.

Elliot Galvin Trio

''Elliot Galvin Trio'' comprises piano, bass and drums. The live and studio line-up has been as follows: * Elliot Galvin - piano, other instruments * Tom McCredie -

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* Simon Roth - drums Some performances have featured

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on drums. In addition to piano, Galvin plays kalimba, accordion and stylophone with the trio. He plays a bespoke microtonal melodica on the track ''Blop'' and uses a portable cassette player to insert recorded sounds into recordings and performances.notably on the track ''Punch and Judy''

Discography

* ''Landing Ground'', (with

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& Ligeti Quartet, Chaos Collective, 2012) * ''Dreamland'' (Chaos Collective, 2013) * ''Punch'' (as The Elliot Galvin Trio, Edition Records, 2016) * ''

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'' (with Dinosaur, Edition Records, 2016) * ''Weather'' (with Mark Sanders, Babel Label, 2017) * ''

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'' (Edition Records, 2018) * ''Wonder Trail'' (with Dinosaur, Edition Records, 2018) * ''Modern Times'' (Edition Records, 2019) * ''To The Earth'' (with Dinosaur, Edition Records, 2020)

Associated acts

Galvin also plays synthesizers in British jazz quartet

Accolades

Elliot Galvin Trio won the 2014 European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award. They were nominated for the Jazz Parliamentary Jazz Awards Newcomer of the Year in 2015. In July 2017, ''Together, As One'' was nominated for the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Galvin, Elliot Living people 1991 births British jazz keyboardists British jazz pianists Musicians from London 21st-century British pianists Dinosaur (band) members Edition Records artists