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Chris Allard - Guitarist
Chris has performed at many venues in the UK, around Europe and the world, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Nuremberg Festival, Giverny Festival, the Barbican Centre, Ronnie Scott’s, Montreux Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Hackney Empire, Cannes Festival, the Royal Festival Hall.
He has performed with Jacqui Dankworth, John Helliwell (Supertramp), Jamie Cullum, Mark Heart (Crowded House), Gwyneth Herbert, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Dave O Higgins, Carleen Anderson(James Brown), amongst others.
Chris has made many TV and Radio appearances, including playing live on the Paul OGrady Show and on Children in Need with Jacqui Dankworth, with whom he has also performed on BBC radio many times. Others include playing on Friday Night is Music Night with Gwyneth Herbert and the BBC Concert Orchestra live on BBC Radio 2. August 2009 he was a featured guest on Solar Radio, Los Angeles California, talking about new album Open Spaces and playing live in the studio.
Whilst being a regular member of various groups, Chris also leads his own band performing original music. He is influenced and inspired by many sources, amongst them Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Pink Floyd, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jimi Hendrix, and Radiohead.
He was joint-winner of the Ovation guitar prize 2000, received an award of a guitar from the Barbarolli foundation 2002, and was a finalist in the Gibson guitar competition at Montreux Jazz Festival 2004.
Chris studied jazz and classical guitar at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), and the Malmo Conservatoire (Sweden).
"Great playing...beautiful...a real guitar player" - Pat Martino
"An excellent guitarist" - Joe Cohn
"One of this countrys finest guitarists" - Jacqui Dankworth
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