Welcome to the latest episode of ‘In Conversation With’ with host and producer Hannah Horton, with our theme tune Surfing Thermals from our host, Hannah too! In this episode, host Hannah Horton welcomes Anjali Perin

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Anjali Perin is a vocalist, pianist, songwriter and arranger-producer specialising in jazz, funk and soul working as a full time musician since graduating from the Jazz Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after leaving her previous career as a corporate lawyer to pursue her musical path. . Her first jazz album was signed to Jazzizit records and featured some of the best jazz musicians in the UK.

She works as a performer, songwriter with a variety of freelance musicians across the British jazz and soul scene, and is a University lecturer on songwriting degree and Masters programmes in London.  In 2016, she established a community choir for Mums in her local area of St Albans, Mamas With Voices,  and has also worked a deputy choir-leader with the NHS choir Breathe Harmony featuring staff from St Thomas’ and Guys’ Hospitals in London as a Breathe Arts Health Research Artist.

She has also lectured in higher music education for a number of years and is currently a Senior Lecturer on the Master in Songwriting and Bachelor of Songwriting programmes at the Institute of Contemporary Music Ltd in London. Where she teaches a variety of writing and perfomance-focussed Modules.

Anjali’s performing highlights performing with her own bands at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Dean Street), the Spice of Life, Smollensky’s on the Strand and both the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre as part of their jazz events programme. She has also performed at the Love Supreme festival and for Quincy Jones at The Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland.

She is currently releasing singles from a 5 song EP of her original songs, recorded with her band at Eastcote studios in December 2019 and arranged and produced herself. She is releasing this material under a musical alter-ego POKKISHAM.

Anjali also recently was commissioned as lead composer to write the majority of songs for a work-in progress musical theatre work “The Coloured Valentino” with script by Beverly Andrews, which is in production under She’s Diverse and Circles Productions which has received funding for development by The Arts Council.

Hannah Horton is a British Female Jazz Saxophonist whose music is rooted in jazz, folk and funk. She has performed with many great jazz artists including Ian Shaw, Amy Winehouse, John Etheridge, Tina May, Georgia Mancio, Polly Gibbons, Natalie Williams, Esther Bennett and Irene Serra; and at venues including Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Dean St, The 606, The Pheasantry, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican. She has also toured in Europe and USA with her own and other groups. Her latest album has been going down a storm across the world. “Hannah makes the big beast of a baritone sax sound like an angel” – Ian Shaw. Hannah Horton website