"Great playing…beautiful…a real guitar player"

Pat Martino

Guitarist Chris Allard has recorded six original albums to date, garnering critical acclaim including four stars in Jazzwise, Jazz Journal, Guitarist and BBC Music magazines. He also performs and records as a freelance musician in a broad range of musical genres, including work in the studio/session realm, has played live on TV and radio and appeared on numerous albums.

He has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the Pyramids and Great Sphinx in Cairo, the Barbican, Montreux Jazz Festival, Nuremberg Festival, Hackney Empire, O2 Arena London, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Beiteddine Arts Festival Lebanon, Edinburgh Festival, Duoro Jazz Festival Portugal, Ronnie Scott’s, The Royal Festival Hall, the BBC Proms in Hyde Park.

Chris has performed/recorded with Jacqui Dankworth MBE, Charlie Wood, Dame Cleo Laine, Sir John Dankworth, Omar Kamal, the BBC Big Band, Jamie Cullum, Gwilym Simcock, Alison Balsom OBE, Lea Salonga.

He is also a Professor of Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

‘borders on genius’  ★★★★ Jazz Journal

★★★★ Jazzwise Magazine

★★★★ Guitarist Magazine.

★★★★ BBC Music Magazine.

 

"One of the great guitarists in this country"

Jamie Cullum

News

Dreamweavers: Woven in Time

Dreamweavers: Woven in Time

New album coming 21st March Dreamweavers: Woven in Time Cinematic, eclectic and mercurial guitar album. With broad soundscapes, a contemporary jazz sensibility, and rock, folk, blues, latin and eastern influence. The evolving collaboration between Chris Allard and...

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Anthony Kerr/Chris Allard duo

A video of our new duo now on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/noFAakd7ZyE?si=4cUMI2vn_3j3K7No A pleasure as ever to play with the amazing Vibraphonist Anthony Kerr - and a challenge to play in this uncommon Guitar/Vibraphone duo format.  We will hopefully be playing...

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Upcoming Gigs

Date Artist City Venue
31/01/25 BBC Big Band Wavendon, Milton Keynes The Stables
Time: 7:30pm. Address: Stockwell Lane.
08/02/25 BBC Big Band Saffron Walden, Essex Saffron Hall
Time: 7:30pm. Address: Audley End Road.
09/02/25 Sam Plackett duo Wivenhoe William Loveless Hall
Time: 7:30pm.
19/02/25 BBC Big Band Lichfield Garrick Theatre
Time: 7:30pm. Buy Tickets
27/02/25 BBC Big Band Eastbourne Congress Theatre
Time: 7:30pm.
14/03/25 BBC Big Band Malvern Malvern Theatre
Time: 7:30pm. Buy Tickets

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