Gareth Davis
Gareth Davis plays bass clarinet. With an eclectic and generally unclassified taste in music his recordings, projects and performances span contemporary classical, free improvisation and orchestral music through to rock, noise and electronica. Collaborations have included the premieres of new written pieces by Peter Ablinger, Jonathan Harvey, Toshio Hosokawa, and Bernhard Lang, among others. Performances with groups and performers range from the JACK Quartet and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, through to improvisers Elliott Sharp and Frances-Marie Uitti, electronic artists Merzbow and Robin Rimbaud. Davis has also collaborated on multimedia work with artists including Christian Marclay and Peter Greenaway.At the Ostrava Days 2019, Gareth Davis excelled in Bernhard Langs’s composition DW 28 Loops for Davis.This year, among other performances, he will lead in Tenney’s In a large, open space.
