Mark Pringle and Roz Macdonald
Mark Pringle and Roz Macdonald met in 2016 as recipients of the Yamaha Jazz Scholar prize in the UK. They have since both chosen Berlin as their home and are actively involved in a range of artistic projects. On this occasion they meet in an intimate duo setting to explore standard jazz repertoire…
Mark Pringle is a pianist and composer from the UK working in the fields of jazz and improvised music. He is a Yamaha Jazz Scholar and Peter Whittingham Award winner, and has performed his own music at the Proms Late Series for BBC Radio 3, Manchester Jazz Festival, The Vortex, Southbank Centre and many more prominent venues across Europe. He works as a leader and sideman in diverse artistic projects Europe-wide, notably his twelve-piece large ensemble A Moveable Feast, London Sinfonietta oboist Melinda Maxwell’s classical/improvisation group, the Tom Syson-Mark Pringle Duo, a freely improvised solo project, European trio Nighthawks, and numerous collaborative settings internationally. He has also performed classical works, most notably Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Mark owes a great deal to the extraordinary musicians and creative minds he was fortunate to encounter during his conservatoire studies in Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam and Birmingham - John Taylor, Greg Cohen, Soren Kjargaard, Liam Noble and Harmen Fraanje to name just a few.
Roz Macdonald is a double bass player from Ayr, Scotland currently living in Berlin.
She graduated in 2015 from Leeds College of Music where she received a first class degree in BA (Hons) Jazz and won the Yamaha Jazz Scholarship for 2015.
Since graduating Roz has been actively gigging, composing and teaching in the UK and Berlin as a side-woman and with her own project.
