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Faith Heleene Brackenbury
Faith Brackenbury is a violinist, violist, vocalist and composer based in the UK. She plays and sings with American drummer Tony Bianco and the duo released 'Rising Up' in 2021, 'Wayward Mystic- Improvisations on the Music of St.Hildegard von Bingen' in 2022 (Discus Records), 'Sentient Beings' (with Paul Dunmall, Tony Bianco and John Pope-(Off) 2023, Prema (FMR-2023, Paul Dunmall, Olie Brice, Tony Bianco, Faith Brackenbury)
From 2015-2017 she played and sang with British alto saxophonist Martin Speake in his quartet 'Mafarowi' (Rob Luft guitar and Will Glaser drums)and the two also released a duo album 'Zephyr' in 2016 (Pumpkin Records).Her 'KnifeAngel' sextet ep was released in 2019, in response to the Knife Angel sculpture by Alfie Bradley, bringing attention to the rising rate of knife crime in the UK .
In 2022 Brackenbury and Bianco toured their St.Hildegard von Bingen project performing music from their album 'Wayward Mystic' in churches around the Shropshire/Herefordshire/Powys borders.
Sentient Beings Tour 2024 with John O'Gallagher alto sax, Tony Bianco drums, John Pope bass- 28th January- 8th February.
Faith completed post-graduate studies in jazz at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2014, and before that also studied violin making with luthier John Langstaffe, and now performs on a violin she made herself.
http://brackenburybianco.bandcamp.com
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Faith Brackenbury / Tony Bianco: Wayward Mystic-Improvisations inspired by the music of St.Hildegard von Bingen
by John Sharpe
Violin and drum duos are something of a rarity in the jazz and improvised music arena. Swift Are The Winds Of Life (Survival, 1976) by Leroy Jenkins and Rashied Ali, and Bangception (Hat Musics, 1983) by Billy Bang and Denis Charles come to mind, but few others. However, violinist Faith Brackenbury and drummer Tony Bianco make a convincing case for the format on Wayward Mystic. In fact it is their second outing following Rising Up (Discus Music, 2019), but this ...
read moreBrackenbury, on violin and viola, provides a challenging and refreshing freedom to the jazz violin...At times, (her) playing is reminiscent of Ornette Colemans....(she) has developed her own voice in jazz...' ~Jazz Times
'Faith Brackenbury's violin playing is an absolute force of nature; at times like a dervish that seems to sweep straight from her heart and out in to the universe, unencumbered by structure or regime, just a natural flow like a river that heads onward.'~Mr Olivetti Freq
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
