Cambridge University’s premier Jazz group joins forces with NYJO MD Olivia Murphy to perform a selection of her own original music.
Composer, conductor, and improviser Olivia Murphy is an innovative and colourful artist, with her music hailed as “some of the most exciting large ensemble jazz emerging from the London scene today” (UK Jazz News). Her main focus is large ensemble composition, and she has performed with her jazz orchestra at venues and festivals across the UK including Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Pizza Express Jazz Club (London). Murphy has been funded by Help Musicians and the PRS Foundation and has been awarded the Musicians’ Company Eddie Harvey Award for jazz arrangement. Murphy is also a resident Musical Director for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and has been commissioned to write for various ensembles and institutions such as the ABRSM, University of Birmingham, Merton Music Foundation, and Sonorite Saxophone Quartet.
CUJO is Cambridge University's premier jazz ensemble, previously performing in numerous professional venues in the UK and overseas on national and international tours, collaborating with world-famous musicians, composers and arrangers such as Mark Kavuma, Mo Pleasure, Emma Rawicz, Steve Waterman, Mark Nightingale, Mark Armstrong, Trish Clowes and Yazz Ahmed. CUJO is supported by the University of Cambridge Centre for Music Performance.
The Centre for Music Performance is a department of the University of Cambridge which believes that music is a fundamental part of a rounded education and enables students of all subjects and levels of musical experience to make cocurricular music of all genres a core part of their lives. The Centre runs an exceptionally broad programme of musical activities, from orchestras to DJing classes and from instrument lessons for beginners to masterclasses with world-leading performers.