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Filomena Campus Quartet
Biographie Filomena Campus Quartet
Filomena Campus
Internationally renowned jazz vocalist/lyricist whose diverse influences range from modern literature, theatre and art to the culture of her native Sardinia. Campus has toured or collaborated with the UK's top jazz artists and innovators, including Orphy Robinson, Maggie Nicols, Rowland Sutherland, Cleveland Watkiss, Steve Williamson, Huw Warren, Byron Wallen, Ruth Goller, Jean Toussaint, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, Laura Cole, Nana Simopoulos, and the London Improvisers Orchestra, as well as with fellow Sardinian musicians Paolo Fresu, Gavino Murgia and Antonello Salis. Filomena has performed at many jazz festivals around the world, having played in the UK, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Morocco, Thailand, and Croatia amongst others. In 2010, she founded the Filomena Campus Quartet, with whom she has released the CD Jester of Jazz and performs regularly at London jazz venues such as the PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott's, World Heart Beat, and the Vortex. The Quartet created the international project, Italy VS England with the late Italian writer and performer Stefano Benni.
In 2014 Campus recorded the album Scaramouche with guitarist and composer Giorgio Serci, featuring the late Kenny Wheeler. 2013 saw Filomena launch her annual My Jazz Islands Festival, later renamed Theatralia Jazz Festival, a bridge between Sardinia and London, in which she seeks to unite Italian and UK jazz musicians. Her acclaimed production of Monk Misterioso. A Journey into the Silence of Thelonious Monk, supported by the Arts Council England, has toured the UK and was sold out at the EFG London Jazz Festival in November 2017. The Filomena Campus Quartet's new project, THEATRALIA, is out on October 20, with the official album launch at The Pheasantry, PizzaExpress Live in Chelsea, London.
"... A highly distinctive presence on the European jazz scene" - Jonathan Coe
"Healing, inspiring, cathartic, comedic, dramatic, political, fantastical, the Filomena Campus Quartet is truly irreplicable in the British jazz scene. - JAZZWISE
“Filomena Campus is the kind of artist who refuses to live in one lane. [...] Campus has consistently shaped work that feels both fearless and finely crafted.” - Occhi Magazine
“Her scatting is literally something else, a modernist in her approach” - Jazz in Europe
"Campus seemed to improvise from the heart, as if running fearlessly into the unknown, and taking the audience with her" - LondonJazz
