Chris Wood

Chris Wood is a remarkable composer and musician (violin, guitar and voice). Immersed in English church music and later in the traditional music of England, Quebec and France, he has worked with musicians from both the folk and classical world, as a player, composer, arranger and teacher. He toured all over the world in a duo with Andy Cutting and has performed in the highly acclaimed 'Wood, Wilson and Carthy' and `The English Acoustic Collective'. Now his solo album The Lark Descending has received remarkable acclaim and Chris tours solo in 2006.

Chris started his career playing with an embryonic form of the Oyster Band, from where he went on to play for the RSC and the National Theatre before forming the influential partnership with Andy Cutting. He is also a composer and Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University.

Eight years ago he formed EnglishAcousticCollective.org.uk as an umbrella for his teaching activities and this has now established itself as a leading collective for young musicians, choreographers and writers. Recent collaborations with writer/storyteller Hugh Lupton have yielded commissions from Radio 3 Late Junction and Chris was a co-producer of Verity Sharp's Saint George's Day program England In Ribbons. His latest work has included sessions for Real World's Imagined Village project and a slot in Billy Bragg's Barbican concert, Which Side Are You On as part of the BBC's Folk Britannia series


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