Rich Batsford

Rich Batsford
Bearded white male holding electric piano keyboard
Background information
Birth nameRichard William Batsford
Born (1969-10-25) 25 October 1969 (age 55)
Birmingham, England
InstrumentPiano
Websiterichbatsford.com
Rich Batsford's spoken voice
recorded January 2013

Richard William Batsford (born 25 October 1969) is an English pianist, composer and singer-songwriter. He is a recording artist and a frequent performer, initially in and around his birthplace in Birmingham, England, and more recently in Adelaide, Australia, presenting concerts featuring original solo piano music with a classical influence.[1][2]

Batsford is also a co-creator of creative network Project X Presents and Musituality, a platform for musicians of various faiths to perform together.[3][4]

Biography

Early life

Born in Birmingham, Batsford lived from early childhood in and around the suburban Moseley area, known as a focal point for the city's musical and creative communities.[5] Beginning his musical and vocal training as a choirboy in St Marys Church, he went on to sing in the National Youth Choir and the CBSO Chorus.[3]

Early career

In the 1990s, Batsford performed as singer and main songwriter in indie guitar-based bands including Maroon.[6] Two of his dark, short stories were published in fiction magazines in the UK and America.[7][8] For ten years, he booked and promoted comedy show The GAG Club, worked as a booking agent and artist agent as well as performing as a stand-up comic, and he was one of the original partners in setting up the Birmingham Comedy Festival.[9] He wrote numerous preview articles about stand-up comedy and classical music for the Metro Newspaper and appeared as an actor in 'Perfect Scenario', a featurette produced as an extra for the BBC DVD release of Doctor Who serial 'Frontier in Space'.

Solo career

In 2007, Batsford collaborated with krautrock/shoegaze band Einstellung, for a concert named 'Das Land Ohne Musik' in which Batsford both supported and accompanied the band, highlighting elements of post-rock shared by both artists.[10] A live album recording of the concert was released in early 2018.

In September 2009, Batsford released Valentine Court, a debut album of solo piano music on his own Mouflon Music label, drawing comparisons with minimalist composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass and impressionist Claude Debussy. A new recording of the album was released in 2018 entitled Valentine Court Recaught.[1][11][12]

In 2009, he made his major festival debut with an appearance at The Big Chill music festival performing in the Vida La Vida tent curated by ambient DJ Mixmaster Morris[2][13] and was given an encore. Other festival appearances include Gigbeth,[14] Drop Beats Not Bombs[14] and ArtsFest[15] - the latter on an outdoor stage in Birmingham's Centenary Square.

In June 2011, he showcased Mindfulmess, an album of songs with a well received concert at mac (the Midlands Arts Centre).[14][16] The album, released in 2012, features lyrics partly inspired by his Buddhist spiritual practice, with elaborate vocal harmonies owing a debt to a lifelong appreciation of pop artist Brian Wilson, all accompanied by his delicate trademark piano patterns.[1][16][17]

He performed his show Mindfulmess at both the Edinburgh and Melbourne Fringes in 2012 and the Adelaide Fringe in 2013 presenting a biographical performance which was praised by Fringe Review for its "harmonious and artful transitions from light to dark, despondent to hopeful".[18] He performed at the Adelaide fringe again in 2014, with a show called "Classically Chilled Piano",[19] which was rated as an 'Outstanding Show' by Fringe Review and again in 2015, with a show called "Piano Amoroso".[20]

His third album, In The Moment, a collection of ten solo piano improvisations was released in 2014.[21] Also in 2014 Batsford was chosen via a competitive process to compose and perform a score to Australian silent feature film, Robbery Under Arms.[22]

A piano piece called "Saticity" has been included in the release of Erik Satie et les Nouveaux Jeunes Version 2, an album of tributes to the composer Erik Satie by French label Arbouse Recordings and another, "Mysterious Moment", on an album by Greek pianist Kosmas Lapatas.[23]

In early 2016, Batsford collaborated with projection artist Zero from Illuminart, to produce an audio visual project called "Piano Illuminato", which was presented in Adelaide Town Hall.[24]

Batsford's own recordings of his solo piano music have been broadcast on Australia's national classical radio station ABC Classic FM.[25]

Since July 2018 a relationship with US digital label Sonder House has resulted in the release of several solo piano tracks, and also an EP recorded in collaboration with Australian sound artist, Jason Sweeney.

Batsford plays a Roland FP4 digital piano.

Collaborative projects

Project X Presents

Batsford co-created the creative network Project X Presents[5] with Marc Reck,[26] Anne-Marie Pope[26] and Anthony Ramm,[27] producing a series of five events dubbed "Omnimedia Experiences" beginning with Like Fxck in July 2006 in the Epic Skate Park in Birmingham. The events featured artists from a wide range of disciplines coming together to blend their work into a seamless, immersive event lasting up to seven hours, usually presented across three stages, with the audience in the middle The Birmingham Post described the event as "destabilising the established role of the 'spectator' in performance theatre and drawing you in to an impressively eclectic and complex mix of art forms".[4][27][28]

Musituality

The Musituality project grew out of a series of concerts called "Music by Candlelight" St Mary's Church, Moseley, organised by Rich Batsford as part of the Moseley Festival.[11] The concert held in July 2008 included a small choir called St Mary's Schola, which consists of a double quartet of singers drawn from St Mary's Church Choir, alongside performances of Qawwali and nasheed from Islamic vocal group A’ashiq Al Rasul.

Inspired by the success of the event, in particular the coming together of Christian and Islamic elements in a Christian building, Mick Perrier of St Marys Schola and Amran Ellahi of A’ashiq Al Rasul joined with Rich Batsford to create Musituality—a portmanteau combining the words music and spirituality.[29][30] The project was launched to a full capacity audience at Birmingham Cathedral in 2009 in a concert well received by the local music community.[31][32]

A further concert in 2010 at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre saw the same collaboration.[32][33]

Personal life

Batsford stood as candidate for the Green Party in Acocks Green ward in the 2004 local government elections. In 2012 he emigrated to Adelaide, Australia, where he is training for ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order.[21]

Discography

  • 2009 (2009): Valentine Court
  • 2011 (2011): Mindfulmess
  • 2014 (2014): In the Moment
  • 2018 (2018): Valentine Court Recaught

Bibliography

  • various (18 May 2012). Poetry & Prose. Life is Short Publications. (includes poems by Batsford[34])

References

  1. ^ a b c Harper, Simon (27 May 2010). "Rich Batsford – Valentine Court (Mouflon)". Bearded Magazine. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Hare and Hound Biography". Night Times: 15. September 2009.
  3. ^ a b "Musituality". Moseley Chimes Magazine. No. Summer issue 2010.
  4. ^ a b Kucharczyk, Stefan (5 November 2007). "Festival has talent at its fingertips". Birmingham Post: 11.
  5. ^ a b "Rich Batsford". Created in Birmingham. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  6. ^ Petvin, Kieran (December 1996). "Looking for that Maroon Sound". Brum Beat (187): 15.
  7. ^ "Longinius". Random Quantum Chaos (4): 22. July 1996.
  8. ^ "The Blade". The Ultimate Unknown (6): 86. 1997.
  9. ^ "Birmingham Comedy Festival". Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  10. ^ "Spectral strings make it spell-binding". Birmingham Post: 12. 18 June 2007.
  11. ^ a b Hern, Sophie (1 July 2008). "Music by Candlelight". Metro Newspaper. p. fbrumn27.
  12. ^ Geary, Matt (October 2009). "Valentine Court". Brumnotes Magazine.
  13. ^ Big Chill Festival programme, page 69
  14. ^ a b c "Rich Batsford to showcase new album at MAC Birmingham". Birmingham Post. 5 June 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  15. ^ Jackson, Lorne (8 September 2011). "600 events on the bill for Birmingham Artsfest". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  16. ^ a b Billings, Daron (July 2011). Brumnotes Magazine. p. 30. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ B13 Magazine. July 2011. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ Ashok, Prerna (2013). "Mindfulmess - Rich Batsford". Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  19. ^ Ashok, Prerna (20 February 2014). "Classically Chilled Piano". Fringe Review. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  20. ^ "Piano Amoroso". Archived from the original on 13 March 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  21. ^ a b Parsons, Kathy (19 September 2014). "Rich Batsford - In the Moment". Mainly Piano. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  22. ^ Knight, Aimee (3 November 2014). "Silent ReMasters set to score at Mercury Cinema". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  23. ^ "Erik Satie et les Nouveaux Jeunes Version 2". Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  24. ^ "PIANO ILLUMINATO to Play Adelaide Town Hall". Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  25. ^ "Jewel as Played on ABC Classic FM". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  26. ^ a b Jones, Simon (13 June 2008). "Time to start singing from the same hymnsheet". Birmingham Post. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  27. ^ a b Grimley, Terry (20 June 2006). "Skate expectations". Birmingham Post: 13.
  28. ^ Mitchell, John (3 November 2007). "Club preview". The Guardian. p. 35. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  29. ^ Grimley, Terry (29 May 2009). "Alleluia chorus to Arabic chants". Birmingham Post: 10.
  30. ^ "Musituality". Moseley Chimes Magazine. No. Summer Issue 2009.
  31. ^ Edwards, Clare (31 May 2009). "Musituality". WordPress.com. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  32. ^ a b Southall, Kate (30 July 2010). "Gig Review: "Musituality", Birmingham - July 16th 2010". Scene And Not Herd. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  33. ^ "Welcome to Musituality". Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  34. ^ "Triratna Poetry (and prose) from Birmingham, UK". Retrieved 19 July 2012.

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