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Richard Glassby
About Me
Born in Aberdeen, Richard grew up in a small
village in Aberdeenshire and found his interest
in music during high school, where he first
learnt classical piano and then for his third year
took up
playing drum kit. During his time at school,
Richard played with rock bands and played in
some armature Musical Theatre shows.
It wasn’t until university that Richard began to
take an interest in Jazz. Whilst studying
Classical music at Aberdeen University, Richard
joined the student big band. Through playing
alongside other
jazz musicians, Richard learnt the fundamentals
of jazz and in his third year began lessons with
Alyn Cosker, where he had up to that point
been studying classical percussion with Lisa
Nicol and
playing jazz in his spare time. Richard changed
his degree in third year to Music Education and
won both third and fourth year performance
and education prizes in 2018 and 2019
respectively,
becoming the first jazz drummer in Aberdeen
University to do so, where he then left
Aberdeen University with a First-Class
Honours.
Richard has played with several bands
including the Aberdeen Jazz Orchestra, the
Aberdeen University Jazz Orchestra, The
Houlies (Ceilidh band), Serial Chillers (Latin
Band) and Hamlet who are a
fusion jazz band consisting of five others
Richard met whilst in the big band at
University. Richard has played several Musicals
and played also for function bands.
Richard received the George Duncan Prize for
Jazz Composition at the RCS for music that now
features on his debut album Eclipse, where he
played to sold out audiences at his launch and
Edinburgh Jazz Festival.
Travels is the most recent release and can be
streamed on all major platforms
