Meet the Improvisers
Uran Apak
Current Member
Uran is a playful improviser with a poetic sensibility.
He is an alchemist in search of a secret formula that will save the world by combining the inspiration of the heart with the intelligence of the mind. Since 2015, he's been leading the Voice DNA workshop that helps people find the power and joy of their voice.
Dilara Aydin-Corbett
Current Member
Born to Irish and Turkish parents, Dilara is a vocalist, pianist and composer. She is currently studying a masters in Music Leadership at the Guildhall which is expanding the scope of her work into cross arts and community music making contexts.
Dilara sees improvisation as an approach to life: a chance to shed our layers to notice the now, flow, respond, ignite curiosity, skillfuly merge work and play, trust and be.
Rouhangeze Baichoo
Current Member
Rouhangeze is a Singer-Songwriter and composer born on the beautiful island of Mauritius. Her voice is compelling with an ease soul and versatility. She is uniquely talented with her own inimitable vocal style and presence with smooth ascension of melody, technicality and heart. In Europe, she has performed and worked with musicians like Mauritian born Bassist Linley Marthe (The Joe Zawinul Syndicate, Paco Sery, Nguyen Le...), multi- award winning guitarist and composer Antonio Forcione, Tabla player Aref Durvesh (Susheela Rahman, Sting, Nitin Sawhney…) Drummer Mark Mondesir (John McLaughlin, Jeff Beck, John Scofield), Polish pianist Tomasz Bura and award winning Producer, Singer Songwriter/ Guitarist Eric Appapoulay( Neneh Cherry, Yusuf Islam/ Cat Stevens, Nitin Sawhney, Lionel Richie, Don Blackman, Craig David...)
Davide Basso
Current Member
Italian tenor Davide Basso studied music performance at Middlesex University in London, and attended masterclasses by the New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and Berklee College of Music. He’s a current member of the London Vocal Project (with whom he presented in February 2017 the project “Jon Hendricks’ Miles Ahead” in New York, excecutive producer Quincy Jones), and of TIC - The Improvisers Choir in London, and collaborates with the London Contemporary Voices, Bambus City Strut, Opéra de Baugé, Ormond Opera, Silver Symphony Orchestra, Luca Pitteri & VGE Vocal Project, Casanova Venice Ensemble.
https://encoremusicians.com/Davide-Basso
Ansuman Biswas
Current Member
Ansuman Biswas was born in Calcutta, India and now lives in the UK. He first learned Indian Classical singing from his mother and later studied Western contemporary music at Dartington College of Arts. He has an inter-disciplinary practice incorporating music, theatre, writing, film, and Live Art, and even beyond the arts to engagement with the worlds of science, healing and business. At the core of this wide-ranging activity is a training in Indian contemplative techniques and a joyful commitment to improvisation.
Alain Man
Current Member
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, producer. Making stuff up as he goes along. Free improv/free improve. Occupied with the collection of strange keyboard instruments, gadgets and software. Knows how to clean an old drum skin of bugs and how to debug an old drum machines hard drive. Never met a genre that didn’t have something to say.
Sylvia Medina
Current Member
Sylvia Medina was born and raised in Italy and soon showed passion for music in all its forms.
She has extensive experience in Musical Theatre and Jazz and has performed nationally and internationally for more than 10 years.
She joined TIC at the very start of their journey and couldn't be more excited to keep exploring and growing with this talented bunch of singers!
"The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls" ~ F.Nietzsche
Camilo Menjura
Current Member
Award winning musician Camilo Menjura is a Colombian Guitarist, Singer and Choir Leader based in London, UK since 2006. His guitar playing conveys shades of the Latin American Folk sound, nurtured by Classical Guitar studies and explorations & collaborations with several projects and musicians from different corners of the globe. Those influences also can be found in Camilo’s voice explorations, with a clear element of folk narrative, textures, polyrhythms and a desire to tell stories with the sound itself as a language.
Ebe Oke
Current Member
Ebe Oke is a composer, producer and transmedia artist working predominately with sound and performance. His experimental compositions are inspired in part by his childhood spent on an exotic bird sanctuary in the Deep South, Georgia and incorporate the sounds of birds and insects. He has studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and counts Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson as personal mentors and collaborators. Oke's work has also included the scoring of dance, film, theatre and art installations. His debut LP 'SPECIES' will be released in 2018.
Irene Pujol Torras
Current Member
As a music therapist, singer and researcher I am interested in the relational, intersubjective and embodied nature of music making. The particular connection experienced when singing and improvising with others is something precious to explore, play with and share with others. From Renaissance madrigals to jazz harmonies and poetic song, I like to find different colours in my voice.
Verónica Chacón
Current Member
‘Enthusiastic, positive and creative’ : Verónica Chacón is a singer, conductor, and voice over but also a graphic designer and fine artist. She found Sounds & Shapes Ltd. in July 2008 to promote musical events, develop original musical and fine art compositions, and create a local space for sharing of music, fine art, and design in North London.
Kate Smith
Current Member
She’s a captivating singer and performer, a versatile improviser, a producer and an entrepreneur, a leader and collaborator — a traveller between cultures and art forms. At the heart of her practice is the search for connections between people and disciplines. That quest has taken her from filming documentaries in Chinese oil fields, to leading choirs for mental health, to performing street theatre in rural Croatia. Currently based in London, Kate manages a diverse practice that encompasses composing new music with her somatic vocal ensemble THAT!, and organizing music programs in Portugal with her company Curiosa.
https://katesmithmusic.com/
Candida Valentino
Current Member
Harmonics, subharmonics, the world of overtones and undertones. My voice and heart are guided by the most natural scale in the universe mysterious and natural at the same time. These sounds that come from my voice create infinite time and space the oo, the ah, the ee tickle me as I listen each time with a new ear.
Yan White
Current Member
Yan is a multi-instrumental musician (guitar, voice, bansuri, drums & percussion), producer/composer and sound journey creator.
He provides live music for yoga workshops and works with music therapy group Drumunity CIC.
Yan is studying Hindustani Classical Music (bansuri, vocal) at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
https://soundmandala.net
Marcia Willis
Current Member
I rest on the shores of silence before stepping into the river of sound. The voice may dive to the depths or soar on rising currents of music, it flows through me and I follow where it leads. In committing to song I trust the music, myself and all present. May the song be a blessing to all.