Elliot Galvin
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Elliot Galvin
| image = Elliot Galvin Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2022 (234112).jpg
| birth_date = 1991{{cite web
|url=https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/elliot-galvin/
|title=Elliot Galvin
|publisher=Cafe Oto
|date=
|accessdate=2017-07-28}}
| death_date =
| origin = UK
| instrument = Piano, synthesizer, others
| genre = Jazz
| occupation = Musician and composer
| years_active =
| label = Edition Records
Chaos Collective
| associated_acts = Dinosaur
Elliot Galvin Trio
Corrie Dick
Laura Jurd
Emma-Jean Thackray's WALRUS
| website = [http://www.elliotgalvin.com elliotgalvin.com]
}}
Elliot Galvin (born 1991) is a British musician and composer based in London. He plays piano, synthesizer, kalimba, microtonal melodica, accordion and stylophone. His primary artistic vehicle is the eponymous Elliot Galvin Trio.{{cite web
|url=http://www.elliotgalvin.com/about
|title=About Elliot Galvin
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|accessdate=2017-07-28}} He is also a member of the jazz ensembles Dinosaur and Emma-Jean Thackray's WALRUS.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/5284515-Emma-Jean-Thackrays-WALRUS|title=Emma-Jean Thackray's WALRUS|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=26 July 2020}}
Galvin has exhibited work at the Turner Contemporary art gallery.{{cite web
|url=https://www.turnercontemporary.org/whats-on/00000001188/elliot-galvin-trio
|title=Elliot Galvin Trio
|publisher=Turner Contemporary
|date=
|accessdate=2017-07-28}}
Elliot Galvin Trio
File:20170429 Elliot Galvin Trio at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2017.jpg
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 - bass
- Corrie Dick - drums
In addition to piano, Galvin plays kalimba, accordion and stylophone with the trio. He plays a bespoke microtonal melodica on the track Blop{{cite web
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikY1JoL8Ifs
|title=Elliot Galvin 'Blop' (Official Video)
|publisher=Edition Records
|date=2016-05-27
|accessdate=2017-07-28}} 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 Laura Jurd & Ligeti Quartet, Chaos Collective, 2012)
- Dreamland (Chaos Collective, 2013)
- Punch (as The Elliot Galvin Trio, Edition Records, 2016)
- Together, As One (with Dinosaur, Edition Records, 2016)
- Weather (with Mark Sanders, Babel Label, 2017)
- The Influencing Machine (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 Dinosaur.
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 Mercury Music Prize.
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Category:British jazz keyboardists
Category:British jazz pianists
Category:Musicians from London
Category:21st-century British pianists