Andi Hopgood

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><br /> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><br /> <head><br /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /><br /> <title>Andi Hopgood</title><br /> <link href="nonFlashStyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><br /> <style type="text/css"><br /> <br /> </style><br /> </head><br /> <body><br /> <div id="main"><br /> <h1>Andi Hopgood</h1><br /> <p>Welcome to the official website of jazz singer Andi Hopgood.</p><br /> <p>View the <a href="../index.html">flash version</a> </p><br /> <h2>About Andi </h2><br /> <p class="image"><img src="andi3.jpg" /></p><br /> <p>Andi began her musical life as an instrumentalist playing from an early age.<br /> Primarily a classical musician, she began her degree at the Colchester institute<br /> as a cellist and saxophonist. Jazz was always a big part of her life but not<br /> always her playing, although she was doing jazz gigs out of college she hadn’t<br /> thought of studying jazz. This all changed after meeting Malcolm Miles and<br /> Trudy Kerr at the institute. Andi was encouraged to do Jazz singing and saxophone.<br /> This became her main focus for the future. She continued to gig throughout<br /> college and graduated in 2003.</p><br /> <p>In her year out (2003) Andi did her first recording<br /> with Graham Harvey and his trio, Matt Miles and Matt Skelton. This included<br /> Andi’s<br /> favourite Standards with interesting arrangements by Geoff Gascoyne, Graham<br /> Harvey and herself, as well as a few less well know songs by British composers.</p><br /> <p class="image"><img src="andi4.jpg" /></p><br /> <p>In<br /> 2004/2005 she attended the Postgraduate course at The Guildhall School of Music<br /> and Drama. Here she studied with such tutors as Simon Purcell and Pete Churchill.<br /> This gave her the opportunity to meet and study with many accomplished musicians<br /> such as John Taylor, Julian Siegel, Martin Speake and Jean Toussant. She graduated<br /> from The Guildhall in 2005 with a much wider knowledge and a more confident<br /> performer.</p><br /> <p>Since 2005 Andi has been working freelance as a performer and teacher<br /> in the eastern area. Her performing varies from jazz duo to big band and blues<br /> to pop. She has performed at the Ipswich jazz Club, Southwold Jazz festival,<br /> Aldeburgh jazz festival, Dereham jazz club and the milestones jazz club to<br /> name but a few.</p><br /> <p>In the future Andi will be doing another recording including new compositions<br /> and arrangements. This is work in progress so watch this space!</p><br /> <p>Here are some<br /> of the groups Andi has worked with:</p><br /> <p> Eastern Block Big Band<br /><br /> Uncle Funk and the Retro Stalkers – <a href="www.retrostalkers.co.uk">www.retrostalkers.co.uk</a><br /><br /> IMU<br /> Big Band <br /><br /> The Big Phat Blues Band<br /><br /> Jazz Duo<br /><br /> Half Past Sax – <a href="www.halfpastsax.co.uk">www.halfpastsax.co.uk</a> </p><br /> <h2>Andi's Music</h2><br /> <p class="albumImage"><img src="album_cover.gif" /></p><br /> <p><strong>Now available</strong> - <a href="mailto:contact@andihopgood.com">e-mail Andi</a> for more details:</p><br /> <p>"I Could Be So Happy", CD</p><br /> <p>With Graham Harvey, Matt Miles and Matt Skelton</p><br /> <p>Recorded in 2003.</p><br /> <h2>Contact Andi</h2><br /> <p>E-mail: <a href="mailto:contact@andihopgood.com">contact@andihopgood.com</a></p><br /> <p>Tel: 07968802904 </p><br /> </div><br /> <div id="copy">a <a href="http://www.prettysimple.co.uk">pretty simple</a> design<br /> :: Copyright 2007 :: <a href="mailto:contact@andihopgood.com">contact@andihopgood.com</a> ::<br /> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/andihopgood" target="_blank">myspace.com/andihopgood</a></div><br /> <br /> </body><br /> </html></p> </body>