Welsh pianist and composer Huw Warren has achieved a reputation for innovative and eclectic music making over a twenty year career. Equally at home crossing the often exclusive worlds of Jazz, World and Folk and Contemporary music, he has a distinctive and personal voice. His best known projects are Perfect Houseplants, Dialektos (duo with Maria Pia de Vito) and a long standing collaboration with singer June Tabor, but he has also performed and collaborated with a wide array of musicians including Mark Feldman, Peter Herbert, Joanna Macgreggor,Iain Ballamy, Kenny Wheeler,JIm Black,Theo Bleckmann , Neil Yates, Pamela Thorby, Mose se Fan Fan and Erik Truffaz. Awarded the BBC Jazz award for Innovation, and the ACW Creative Wales Award, he has also written for many ensembles including Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Welsh Chamber Orchestra, RSC, LPO Renga ensemble, The Orlando Consort, Ensmble Plus, Koch Ensemble and Tango Siempre. Recent activity has seen him working with artists from other fields such as Choreographer Chloe Loftus, visual artist Catrin Williams and photographer David Woodfall. Currently artist in residence at Brecon Jazz Huw's next recording (Quercus with June Tabor and Iain Ballamy) is released in March 2013 on ECM. "One of the UK's truly independent spirits" Guardian "a slow tune called "Still Hearing You", which I think is the single most ravishing melody I have ever heard in my life." *****Miles Kington, The Independent. www.huwwarren.co.uk Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.