About This Event

Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM - 2 sets of music Line-up: Will Barry - Piano Dave Whitford - Double bass Finn Genockey - Drum kit Sean Payne - Alto Saxophone About: "Sean Payne is an extremely gifted and promising young musician with a tremendously strong command of the Saxophone. Check him out!" - Chris Potter "Sean Payne is an absolute beast on the Saxophone. His jaw-dropping prodigious technique and smoldering passion for the music, make him one of the brightest future stars of Jazz." - Seamus Blake Since starting the Saxophone at the age of 8, and performing in the final of the first ever BBC Young Jazz Musician Of The Year (2014) at the age of 13, Sean has worked regularly as a freelance musician around the UK and Europe. Sean was a member of Clark Tracey's Quintet (2017-2020) and alongside that, has had sideman experience working with musicians such as Seamus Blake, Gwilym Simcock, Francesca Tandoi, Soweto Kinch, Laurence Cottle, Pablo Held, Nigel Hitchcock, Kit Downes, Peter Beets, Benjamin Herman and Mark Nightingale, to name a few. He has also had the opportunity to sit in with many other notable players such as Joey Calderazzo, Gregory Hutchinson, Aaron Goldberg, Scott Hamilton, Jorge Rossy and Ben Van Gelder. Sean has performed in Venues across the UK and Europe, as both a Sideman and a Leader. Some highlights include; Ronnie Scott’s, Bimhius, A Trane, Stadtgarten, The Royal Albert Hall, Duc Des Lombards, Telekom Forum Bonn, Jazz A Vienne, Festival Da Jazz St Moritz, LantarenVester, Sounds, TivoliVredenburg, Pizza Express Soho & King Georg. At 18, Sean was the youngest member of the first ever Michael Brecker International Saxophone Competition, held at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel. Sean was a recipient of the Elton John Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music from 2018-2022, and Graduated with First Class Honours. Whilst studying at the Academy; Sean had the opportunity to Study and Perform with Musicians such as Craig Taborn, Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Will Vinson, Tim Garland and Stan Sulzmann.

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