Experimenting, exploring and creating new music for percussion and saxophone. The duo was formed in 1998. Sand Dancer is its debut CD recording and is an intimate reflection of both Dave and Andy's musical experiences. Ranging from the free improvisations of As it Happened to arrangements of jazz standards Django, My One & Only Love, and Moanin through to original compositions such as Otria, Sand Dancer and The Light That Falls, the duo display musical versatility, empathy and honesty.
Elizabeth Hayes is a young pianist who has appeared at all of the major venues in the UK and has achieved success in a number of international piano competitions. She is much in demand as a soloist and her much awaited disc of American piano music appears now on Quartz.
David Heath began writing music in 1975, basing his music harmonically and rhythmically on the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. Heath is now regarded as one of Britain's most original musical figures, the Gramophone recently writing of him "Heath has developed a voice and style that has developed into a genre of its own".
The Homecoming Woodwind Ensemble is a group of eminent young wind players formed around the Homecoming Festival in Russia, an event dedicated to bringing back Russian musicians from abroad to perform in their home country.
The ensemble was founded in 2005 by Dmitri Bulgakov and Pavel Strugalev and their first project was the world premiere and recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for woodwind quartet by the Russian composer Andrei Eshpai and released here on Quartz.
