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Oliver Pickup

 

E-mail: oliverpickupcomposer@gmail.com

Current Groups

  • Dysfunktion - Bass Guitar - Function band with horn section

  • Brasshole - Bass Guitar - Street Brass Band

  • Yazzie & The Rolls - Bass Guitar - Small function band

  • The Ollie Pickup Quartet - Trombone & MD - Jazz Quartet

  • Boneyard - Trombone I & MD  - Trombone Quartet

Other Groups I've Played For

 

  • The Sam Johnson Big Band - Lead Trombone

  • Nostalgia Swing Band - Lead Trombone

  • New Kings Big Band - Lead Trombone

  • The Infinity Jazz Orchestra - Lead Trombone

  • The University of York Jazz Orchestra - Lead Trombone

  • York Swings Big Band - Lead Trombone

  • East Lancashire Concert Band - 1st Trombone

  • Rossendale Encore Concert Band - 1st Trombone

  • Accrington Boys Brigade Brass Band - 1st Trombone

  • National Boys Brigade Brass Band - 1st Trombone

  • Driffield Silver Band - 2nd Trombone

  • The New York Brass Band - 2nd Trombone

  • Grange Brass - 2nd Trombone

  • Strictly Brass - 2nd Trombone

  • University of York Brass Band - 2nd Trombone

  • University of York Film Orchestra - 2nd Trombone

  • Baxendon Concert Band - Bass Trombone

  • University of York Symphony Orchestra - Bass Trombone

  • University of York Sinfonietta - Bass Trombone

  • University of York Concert Band - Bass Trombone

  • Lancashire Youth Jazz Orchestra - Bass Trombone

  • Lancashire Youth Brass Band - Bass Trombone

  • Quintessential Brass - Trombone

  • Shatner - Trombone

  • Sister Madley - Trombone

  • 5 Men, 1 Tuba - Trombone

  • Zamar Gospel Choir Band - Trombone

  • Bedlam - Trombone & MD

  • University of York Big Band - Lead Trombone

Qualifications

 

  • MA Music

  • BA (Hons) Music

  • A Level Music

  • Grade 8 Trombone

  • Grade 8 Popular Music Theory

  • DipLCM Trombone Performance

  • ALCM 

2010 - present

2010 - present

Education

 

 

University of York

2016 - 2017

MA Composition

2013 - 2016

BA(Hons) Music

Topics studied:

 

  • Harmony & Counterpoint (Dr Roger Tebbet)

  • After Ovid - Practical Project 2013 (Prof Ambrose Field)

  • The Jazz Diaspora (Dr Jonathon Eato) - "The reception of a homosexual, female jazz trombonist by European, British and South African cultures"

  • Spectral Music (Dr Martin Suckling) - "Additive synthesis and its uses in Spectral culture"

  • Technopop (Dr Jez Wells)

  • Bartok (Dr Nicky Loseff) - "String Quartet No.2 (original composition)"

  • Music of WWI (Prof William Brooks) - "The Lost War Composers: Who were they and how did they affect the classical music of the time?"

  • Indian Music (Dr Neil Sorrell)

  • Paradise Moscow - Practical Project 2015 (Dr John Stringer) - "Issues arising from instrumental parts in Opera and Musical Theatre with particular focus on the Trombone"

  • Compositon (Prof Ambrose Field) - "Absence & Exclusion (original composition)"

  • Final Recital 

 
 
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