Brilliant Corners: Meilana Gillard Quartet & Scott Flanigan Trio

Meilana Gillard Quartet featuring Meilana Gillard (saxophones), Jamil Sheriff (piano), Conor Chaplin (bass), David Lyttle (drums)



Brilliant Corners 2015 marks the debut performance of Meilana Gillard’s ‘Balance’, a brand new quartet made up of some of Europe’s finest young players and featuring the sonic landscapes of Gillard’s fearless pen. Storytelling melodies and image-conjuring textures are front and centre while celebrating all things discovered in the process of trying to achieve balance.



The Balance Playbook is a suite Gillard composed for a commission from Moving on Music and this is its premiere performance. She has written the new work with the strengths, individuality and creativity of her chosen musicians in mind.



Gillard, who has made a formidable impression on Northern Irish Jazz scene, is currently working on her 2nd album, to be released in May 2015.



“Saxophonist Meilana Gillard’s surging solos crackle with energy and invention.”

– culturenorthernireland.org



“…Gillard has raised the bar for aspiring saxophonists with her flowing lines full of the storyteller’s powers of narrative.” – Ian Patterson, All about Jazz