Simone Rebello

Mike Balter is extremely proud to include Simone as an official Artist.

Simone graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with Distinction and a collection of awards including a major scholarship and The Phillip Jones Prize. She began a solo career which has taken her around the world with concerto appearances, solo recitals, master classes and appearances on national and international TV and radio. She has recorded several CDs and is in high demand as a soloist with brass bands, wind ensembles and symphony orchestras. She continues to win awards such as the 1998 Cosmopolitan/House of Fraser Woman of the Year in the Arts.
Simone regularly performs with the internationally renowned BackBeat Percussion Quartet of which she is a founder member. All members of Backbeat Percussion Quartet are official Mike Balter Atrists.

www.simonerebello.com

Backbeat Percussion Quartet

BackBeat Percussion Quartet (Damien Harron, Simone Rebello, Han Ying and Stephen Whibley) is an award-winning British Percussion Quartet. They have performed prolifically throughout the UK and have travelled to countries such as Zimbabwe, USA, Switzerland, and Japan to entertain audiences with their imaginative programmes that resist categorisation. The group blends many potent strands: art music, folk music, choreography, music theatre via an often explosive virtuosity. Their concerts showcase a huge variety of percussion instruments from every corner of the world, often presented and combined in unconventional and untraditional ways. All the members of the group are multidimensional instrumentalists who are committed to exploring percussion playing as an activity that traverses many boundaries of genre.

www.backbeat.co.uk

Dave Danford

Dave Danford is rapidly building a reputation as one of the UK’s finest young soloists. His virtuosic performances from a unique and accessible solo repertoire continue to engage audiences throughout the country.

Dave was born in Swansea, South Wales in 1984 and gained his first performing experience with the various ensembles run by West Glamorgan Music Service before progressing to lead the percussion sections of some of the UK’s finest youth ensembles including the National Youth Brass Band of Wales and the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain. Following a few years under the guidance of successful freelance percussionist Graham Bradley, Dave chose to study with Chris Stock (principal percussionist - BBC NOW) at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where his abilities as a soloist were constantly recognized with concerto performances with the brass band, wind orchestra and symphony orchestra and he became the first percussionist to win the college’s annual concerto competition.

www.davedanford.co.uk

Rob Farrer

I'm a freelance percussionist living in London. I play for The Divine Comedy and quite frankly anyone else who is willing to pay me. I have played for some of the biggest names in the music industry such as The White Stripes, Guy Chambers and Sir Paul McCartney. I play for Joby Talbot so as a result have appeared on many of his film and T.V. scores. I have just started playing on the West End production of the "Lord of the Rings" musical which is big and loud and thankfully not as long as the films.I also play for a band called Lord Large.