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Lou Glandfield: BA comb hons (Music/English, Dartington & Exeter), Cert.Ed (Bristol), Dip.Spanish (Brighton). Studied music with Ustad Imrat Khan & Helen Glatz.
I offer the following skills:-
Composing Fluent in many genres and can supply music for special contexts - from a jingle to a full length suite - on professional quality CD. Many BBC commissions (Radios 3 & 4) and collaborations to date.
Writing Texts, libretti and verse. Speeches, letters & applications. Monologues and shaggy dog stories. Frequent contributions to BBC R4 including Loose Ends, Afternoon Shift and Home Truths. Especially good at bringing together wildly unrelated topics to humorous or satirical effect.
Teaching music Folk, blues & other popular styles on piano & guitar, especially slide. Music theory. Broadly, you decide what you want to do & we'll take it from there.
Teaching Spanish including beginners, holiday and basic business. Extra tuition for GCSE & A level / IB students.
Teaching English General English & literature to university standard.
Acting Co-founded award-winning IOU Theatre ('75). More than 30 years experience in European theatre.
Playing Primarily committed to improvisation, I play keyboard and guitar, specializing in blues piano and fingerstyle and slide guitar. I play electric instruments but am happiest playing real pianos and resonator guitars, both Dobro and National types. I also play several stringed instruments including the saz (Turkish lute), Spanish lute, morin khuur (Mongolian horse-head fiddle) and cümbüs (Turkish banjo). I'm an overtone singer, blues vocalist and general purpose baritone. I especially like finding unusual contexts and combinations and have worked in deserts, cathedrals and catacombs with people as diverse as John Sessions, Lol Coxhill, Allen Ginsberg and Trevor Watts. |
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