Jackie Walduck is a composer and vibraphone player, whose work explores the meeting points between composition and improvisation, and their impact on en-semble performance. She has performed across the UK, Europe and in the Middle East, with musicians as diverse as the Philharmonia, Sinfonia Viva, Kala Ram-nath, and the Royal Army Band of Oman. She composes for and leads The Acad-emy of St Martin in the Fields orchestra with homeless men and women The Sey-more Orchestra. Her collaborative film score for The Dress (Maggie Ford) was premiered at Cannes Film Festival (2008).

Jackie led Ignite Ensemble in their residency at Wigmore Hall Learning (2008-2019), Tactile, a band working with tactile notation under blindfold, and she co-directs Ethereal World with flautist Rowland Sutherland. Both a band and a club night, Ethereal World presents improvised music from some of the UK’s most exciting players drawn from contemporary classical, free improvisation and cross cultural jazz.

www.jackiewalduck.org
https://jackiewalduck.bandcamp.com/releases