Gareth Lockrane is arguably the UK’s leading jazz flautist. His playing CV reads like a who’s who of the music industry. Gareth has released multiple records with his own bands and featured on various broadcasts around the world. He also tutors at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Trinity College of Music in London.

Gareth will feature on Flute with his Quartet playing a range of jazz and original tunes.

"Lockrane is an exceptional soloist with an improvisatory confidence that’s quite startling" -  Peter Vacher, Jazzwise Magazine

About this event

• Pre-Booking Required
• £25 per person - includes choice of Artisan Pizza
• Bookings by Table (groups of 2-6)
• Bar service available (soft & alcoholic)
• Doors open 11:45am | Music starts 12pm
• 12pm-1pm First Set
• 1pm-2pm Lunch (choice of Artisan Sourdough Pizza Included - Paid Bar)
• 2pm-3pm Second Set
• Covid-secure precautions in place (full details on email confirmation)

"The venue was excellent. The revamped Dawkes shop area adjusted beautifully into a club-like atmosphere. There was a relaxed welcoming attitude from the staff and they were attentive to the needs of the audience."- Live Event Visitor Feedback

About Gareth Lockrane

Gareth Lockrane started playing at the age of 10 and after raiding his dad's record collection discovered jazz at 14. Early influences included Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans and Stan Getz on the jazz side whilst also being transfixed by the great blues/rock guitarists of the 60s and 70s as a child - BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy.

In 1994 he enrolled on the jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London where teachers included Stan Sulzmann, Martin Speake, John Thomas and Eddie Parker and where he struck up musical relationships with fellow students the Fishwick brothers, Tom Cawley, Osian Roberts, Orlando le Fleming and many others. In 1997, his band "The Jazz System" formed with Osian Roberts was a finalist in the Vienna Jazz Festival Grande Concours de Jazz. In 1998, he studied on the Lake Placid Jazz Course in New York with Joe Lovano, Dick Oatts and Jim McNeely and in 2000 was a finalist in the Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition.

As well as his own bands, Gareth has been involved in many diverse projects on recording projects and live gigs - as a key member of the late great Bheki Mseleku's group during his last years from 2005 to 2008 and also working extensively with the James Taylor Quartet since 2003, Phil Robson's IMS Quintet featuring Mark Turner, as a featured soloist with Tommy Smith's Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, Laurence Cottle's Big Band, bands and recordings led by Quincy Jones, Dick Oatts, Tom Cawley, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Nikki Iles, Seal, Corrine Bailey Rae, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra and many more. 

Gareth is also heavily involved in the music educational world, as course director of the prestigious junior jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as well as regularly teaching at degree and post grad level at the Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall School of Music&Drama and Trinity College of Music, and teaching flute at Kingsdale School in Dulwich. He also teaches regularly on the National Youth Jazz Collective courses across the UK, and every August on the residential Loire Summer School in France run by drummer extraordinaire Tristan Mailliot.

The Band

• Gareth Lockrane (Flutes)
• Tom Cawley (Piano)
• Mark Hodgson (Bass)
• Tristan Mailiot (Drums)