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| 2008 | (March) Offered a place on the MMus Musicology course at Leeds University, UK. | |||
| 2007 | (November) Premiere of the first of my eight-part solo piano concert series, Seven Ages of Jazz in Dubai, UAE. The venue was the Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre (DUCTAC) and the concert featured my arrangements of classic jazz taken from the last 100 years of the genre. | |||
| (June) Record a series of improvisations on melodica, released as Melodica Travels, over a month-long period on Al-Azaiba beach in Muscat, Oman. This album is the realisation of my desire to show that the instrument deserves greater respect alongside more traditional instruments than it currently receives. | ||||
| (March) My article Global Ear from Ulaanbaatar, is published in The Wire new music magazine. Also, mp3 clips of some of my recorded improvisations whilst in Mongolia are made available for download from The Wire website. Plus, my article Connecting Heaven and Earth: The Shamanic Art of Khoomei, is published in Fanfare magazine, published by Birmingham Conservatoire. | ||||
| 2006 | (Oct) Awarded a certificate from the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in honour of my contribution to the 2006 Giant Steppes International Jazz Festival between October 3rd and 7th. Considering that, at the time of the festival, I had only been in the country for five months, I think this was an incredible achievement, and the certificate certainly ranks alongside the one I received from the Birmingham Conservatoire earlier in the year. | |||
| (July) The opening of the UB Jazz Academy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's Capital City. The Theory, Practical, Modern Jazz Piano Method and the History of Modern Jazz courses have all been written by myself. It is the first Academy of its kind in Mongolia, and I'm very proud to be a part of its success. | ||||
| (June) Awarded a HonBC (Honoury Member of Birmingham Conservatoire) for my achievements since leaving music college in 1997. The award is presented 'in absentia', since I was living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia at the time of the ceremony! | ||||
| (Jan - Apr) Two major new works, now is a ship and the Book of the Law written and premiered in the space of a couple of months. | ||||
| 2005 | HoWL performances at StAnza, Scotland’s Poetry Festival, St Andrews, Cheltenham International Jazz Festival, The Vortex, London and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, amongst others. A very productive year for HoWL. | |||
| (Dec) Record my first solo album (self-funded), Jewel in the Lotus. Reviewed positively in Musician magazine. | ||||
| (Dec) Premiere of my re-arrangement of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. Written for voice, piano, bass and drums (no sax). Two performances, one at Fizzle club and one as Symphony Hall as part of Birmingham Jazz’s Commuter Jazz, celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original recording. | ||||
| (Aug) Perform in the tribute concert to the late John Mayer, who tragically died as the result of a traffic accident earlier in the year. It is the last performance by John Mayer's Indo-Jazz Fusions and features a guest appearance by Kenny Wheeler. The concert, on August 1st, is part of the Southend-On-Sea Jazz Festival and my composition Khamaj is performed as part of the programme. | ||||
| (July) Nominated for a NESTA Fellowship Award. | ||||
| 2004 | (Jan) Premiere of Howl & Other Poems – a musical setting of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, for narrator and 8 players (2 tenor saxophones, piano, electric guitar, sampler, double bass and 2 drum kits) at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham on January 24th. This is the work written for the Birmingham Jazz Commission, and it is performed as part of The Series, a long-standing collaborative venture between Birmingham Jazz and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG), an offshoot of the celebrated CBSO. The performance is attended by a near-capacity audience, an intriguing mixture of contemporary music fans, poetry enthusiasts and the simply curious! | |||
| 2003 | Awarded a Birmingham Jazz RALP Commission to compose a large-scale work of my own choice. | |||
| (Dec) Birmingham Jazz invite GreenTromanStreet to support Martin Speake and Ethan Iverson at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham. Perform two original compositions, A. N. Other Blues and Tristessa, plus music by Ornette Coleman, arranged specially for the occasion. | ||||
| 2002 | (Sept) Set up FiZZLE, a fortnightly free-improvisation / new music evening in Moseley, Birmingham, jointly with other free improvisers and new music composers working in and around Birmingham. The idea behind Fizzle is to provide a platform for all manner of fresh ideas, a sympathetic space for the birth of new musical forms, practice and sound worlds. | |||
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2004 |
Join King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys. This three-year stint with the hard-working, constantly touring jump-jive and swing band allows me to experience the reality of life 'on the road', whilst participating in countless UK and European Festivals in such countries as Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Ireland. No other band experience is quite like The KPs! | |||
| 2001 | (Jan) Record the album GreenTromanStreet at ARC Studios in Edgbaston, Birmingham. This band is the second incarnation of my piano trio (Steve Street replaces Mitch Perrins on drums). The album showcases my arrangements of classic material plus two original compositions, Tristessa and Repetition. Click here to read an online review. | |||
| 1997-2000 | Form the Steve Tromans Trio with Mike Green and Mitch Perrins on double bass and drums respectively. The trio spends an intensive 3 years - courtesy of two weekly residencies - exploring the minutae of trio interaction and enabling me to develop both my performance and writing skills to a high level. This, combined with the high standard of musicianship of the other players, is an invaluable experience. The saxophonist Dan Faulkner also regularly participates in rehearsals, recordings and gigs. | |||
| (June) Graduate Birmingham Conservatoire with Bmus(Hons) 1st Class. My composition portfolio submitted in my final year contains a serial work for jazz quintet, Manhattan Jungle Symphony; a chamber work based on 3 poems of e.e.cummings, now is a ship; a piece for John Mayer’s Indo-Jazz Fusions, Khamaj (recorded on their 2000 album INJA for FMR Records - Click here to hear a real audio excerpt of this work); a haiku-like String Quartet and a Wind Quintet, Five Bagatelles. | ||||
| 1997 | (Feb) Tour of Bangladesh with John Mayer’s Indo-Jazz Fusions. One week split between Dhaka and Chittagong.
Recording of John Mayer’s Indo-Jazz Fusions album Ragatal, including my composition Miyan ki Malhar for Nimbus Records. Click here to hear a real audio excerpt of this work. |
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| 1996 | Tour of India with John Mayer’s Indo-Jazz Fusions. Two weeks in Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi performing a set including my composition The Great Bear.
The Great Bear is included on the John Mayer’s Indo-Jazz Fusions album Asian Airs for Nimbus Records. |
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| 1995 | Join John Mayer’s Indo-Jazz Fusions (the most recent incarnation of John Mayer and Joe Harriott’s revolutionary band of the 60’s) as pianist and co-composer. | |||
| 1993 | Offered an unconditional place at Birmingham Conservatoire, studying composition with John Mayer, pioneer of the fusion of eastern and western music. | |||
| 1991 | Reached the International Final of the Yamaha Electone Festival, held in Tokyo, Japan, winning the Outstanding Performance of an Original Composition Award (an effective 3rd place) for my performance of my first composition Great Expectations. | |||