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Katie Elliott

Classically trained as a flautist and pianist, Katie has been writing and performing music since an early age. After studying at Dartington College of Arts and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she learned to love Balinese gamelan music (the former) and 20th Century Polish fiction (the latter), she began writing children's music books for Usborne Publishing and Boosey & Hawkes. Unsurprisingly though, devising ways of making music theory memorable using a limited repertoire of cartoon animals soon took its toll and, before she knew it, she had enrolled in a jazz workshop. From there it was a small step to forming her own band (of which there have been many) and inveigling her way into other people's when they weren't looking

England-based Katie Elliott performs bucolic and evocative piano jazz on latest release

December 14, 2011

Piano jazz rarely gets as bucolic and evocative as Walking the Edge, the latest album from Gloucestershire, England-based artist Katie Elliott. Of course, much of it is rooted in Elliott's British homeland. Her compositions seem to illustrate the environment around her, the rural area of Gloucestershire. Its inspiration is keenly felt in her music, most of ...

Walking the Edge

By Katie Elliott

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009