Biography
Formed in 1984 to work with strategies to develop a more 'chamber' approach to large group improvising.
For the first dozen years the personnel was:
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Chris Burn - piano
John Butcher - saxes
Jim Denley- flute
Stevie Wishart - violin, hurdy-gurdy
Phil Durrant - violin
John Russell - guitar
Marcio Mattos - cello
Matt Hutchinson - synthesiser
In 1997 ENSEMBLE expanded to an 11 piece - adding:
Rhodri Davies - harp
Mark Wastell - cello
Axel Dörner - trumpet.
ENSEMBLE is now a flexible unit of varying size, whose most recent recording, of a quintet concert in Poland in 2002, included: Xavier Charles - clarinet / Nicos Veliotis - cello.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.