About

Percy Pursglove is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and award winning improviser whose work spans a broad range of genres from avant-garde new-destructionism and a multitude of indeterminate improvisational settings through to choral composition, jazz orchestra and orchestral scoring.

An alumnus of both the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK, and The New School University, New York – Percy holds a PhD in contemporary choral compositional techniques.

Percy is currently working extensively across Europe as a freelance improviser, recording artist, composer, clinician and part time member of the NDR Big Band, Hamburg.

Some of the most prominent artists Percy has performed/recorded with include:

Evan Parker, NDR Bigband, WDR Big Band, Food w/Thomas Stronen/Iain Ballamy, Bill Frissell, Barry Guy, Peter Evans, Dan Weiss, Takuya Kuroda, Michael Gibbs, Thomas Morgan, John Hollenbeck, Jeff Ballard, Mark Dresser, Victor Bailey, Drew Gress, Ben Monder, Jason Rebello, Phil Woods, Claudio Roditi, Evan Parker, Florian Weber, Jakob Bro, Elliott Sharpe, Vince Mendoza, Peter Erskine, Django Bates, Steve Swallow, Chris Potter, Gerald Clayton, Dave Liebman, Dave Holland, Hamid Drake, Jim Black, Pablo Held, Joe Martin, Jeff Ballard, Omar Sosa, Enrico Pieranunzi, Kit Downes, Norma Winstone, Elbow, Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula, Gregory Porter, Dr John and Amy Winehouse.