New CD 'ALIVE IN THE UNDERWORLD' now available from www.david-cross.com
Listen to 'Floodlights' and 'Learning Curve' from this album now in the music section.
TO SEE MEMBERS OF DAVID CROSS BAND---VISIT www.david-cross.com.
Visit the new David Cross Band fan site at www.myspace.com/thedavidcrossbandfanpage
David Cross
Early days:
1949-1960 Father was a church and cinema organist and played piano in dance bands. David started learning violin at the age of nine. First violin bought from a junk shop for £1.00. Played right back for school football team.
Education:
1960-1967 Secondary school: A levels in Latin, Greek and Ancient History. Rugby player (Captain and Scrum-half). Started improvising.
1967-1970 Certificate of Education specialising in Music and Drama. Leader of College Orchestra. Formed folk rock band.
1993-1995 M.A. in Performing Arts (interdisciplinary performances, papers on structure in post-modern art music, the hermeneutics of rock journalism).
Career:
1970-1972 Musician, Composer. Concerts with folk and rock groups throughout UK, recording sessions etc.
1972-1974 Musician, Composer, Producer. Member of King Crimson rock group; tours of UK, Europe, USA & Canada. Recorded 5 albums for EG Records. Recorded Clearlight Orchestra album for Virgin Records. TV & radio broadcasts.
1975-1977 Musician, Composer, Producer, Musical Director, Actor. Formed ASCEND rock improvisation group; concerts UK and Nancy Jazz Festival. Theatre work at: Royal Court Theatre, Royal Court Upstairs, Bush Theatre, Wyndhams Theatre, Arts Meeting Place.
1977-1978 Musician, Composer, Producer, Musical Director, Actor. Freelance in Dublin, sessions, concerts, formed 12 piece band. Abbey Theatre Dublin. Players Theatre Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Project Arts Centre Dublin. Initiated Improvisation Workshops at Project Arts Centre - featured on RTE Television.
1978-1979 Musician, Composer, Producer, Musical Director, Actor. Director (Music Theatre) Tour of Holland with theatre & music. BBC, Music Box, ICA Theatre, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company, Productions at Theatre Royal Bristol, Festival Theatre Buxton, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh. Arnolfini Arts Centre Bristol. Theatre Centre (TIE touring, inner city areas in London, Manchester, Liverpool).
1980-1989 Musician, Composer, Producer, Musical Director, Director (Music Theatre). Audio-visual and video presentations. Performing in jazz groups and with own rock band; concerts in UK, Le Mans Jazz Festival, broadcasts on RADIO 3 and in France. Leicester Haymarket Theatre (12th Night). Recorded 2 albums for United Dairies Records. Recorded 2 albums for Dossier Records. Recorded 2 albums for Red Hot Records. Sessions on various recordings. Directed staging of Memos From Purgatory at the Half Moon Theatre and other venues using dancers, musicians, lights, slides etc. Formed Beckett Music: Performances at Riverside Studios and other Arts Centres. Dance Company 7 ,(Afro-Carribean Dance) at Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room & other venues.
1990-1999 People Moving Dance Company at The Place, Chat's Palace etc. Concerts in Germany, Belgium, & UK. The Essential King Crimson - Frame By Frame boxset ,released by Virgin Records. 3rd album for Red Hot Records, David Cross - The Big Picture released Europe and Japan October 1992. The Great Deceiver - King Crimson released by Virgin Records November 1992. 4th album for Red Hot Records, David Cross - Testing To Destruction released Europe and Japan October 1994. Featured on German television. Formed creative partnership with Dean Allen as the god brothers, co-writing, directing,and acting in That World (a play with music) performed at Interchange Studios October 1995. Featured on System Collusion (Geoff Serle - Severe Test) (1995). Devised Dance/Music piece, The Walking Self with Verity Blackman performed at Chisenhale Dance Space March 1996. Featured on Dean Carter album Psychomuzack (1997). King Crimson - The Night Watch released worldwide (1998). Featured on album by Joe Hisaishi(Lost Paradise).David Cross - Exiles album released in Europe, USA and Japan featuring performances by Robert Fripp, Peter Hammill, John Wetton and a collaboration with Peter Sinfield. Formed Noisy Records (1999). Discipline Records release The Beat Club Bremen (1972) as a mono collectors' CD (1999).
2000-2005 Radius album Civilizations released on Noisy Records (2000). Interdisciplinary performances created with Verity Blackman (dance) and Maurizio Pio Rocchi (painter). Senior Lecturer in Music Education at London Metropolitan University (2001). Collaboration with Mick Paul and Richard Palmer-James to write David Cross Band album Closer than skin (released 2005). Developed solo violin performances during 2004-2005. Concerts in London, Tokyo, Osaka and Athens. Recorded Unbounded with Japanese singer pianist Naomi Maki. Collaborations with Haruhiko Tsuda (featured on the forthcoming album Navigator), Korekyojin and Shuichi Chino in Japan and Chris Stassinopoulos in Greece.
Friday, July 31st. 9:00 PM at VERSAI
351 N. FAIRFAX AVE., Los Angeles, California 90036
Cost: $10 little dollars @ the door. (click on us for more details please)
Special 1 hour and 30 minute set with guest musicians and our new
violin player, Paula. Doors open at 7pm. We play at 9pm. This is our
last show for a long while because our guitar player Nacho will be
leaving the country. Come join us in celebrating his friendship and
musicianship!!! Thank you very much!
-TGD
Hello, thanks for the add, glad to have you as a friend. I need your help to support my music and my drumming all around the world. My new cd Trance Circular Groove with special thanks Derek Sherinian (Planet X, Dream Theater) on keyboards and Giovanni Vigliar (Arti & Mestieri) finally is out. Buy it now on www.ebay.com deluxe edition at very low price!!! Available also the rare out of print "The Gate" of BFH metal progressive trio with myself on drums, swedish guitarist Mats Hedberg on guitar and Lorenzo Feliciati on bass. If you like to listen some track please visit www.myspace.com/maurizioboco
hello David.., Greetings from my Prog-Art-Sky! ...thank you for possibility to get acquainted, and have a possibility to enjoy your beautiful music and talent... Thank you also for your interest to my artworks... You also always welcome to my pages! Have a great Cosmic Energy! All the best,
Hey, how are you doing? We just recorded The Tempest Armada's upcoming album "Echoes of the Last Bell". We are looking for new upcoming artists to record and work with so feel free to check out our work. I hope all is well and feel free to comment or write back.
HELLO DAVID, THANKS FOR THE TRIP, WONDERFUL MUSIC IN YOUR SPACE, GREAT UNIVERSE, I SPENT A VERY NICE TIME !!!! ALL THE BEST, THANKS FOR THE ADD, MOLECULE (paris) www.molekule.fr
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