FuMar Concert, Album Tour: The Lanercost Sessions 2/ Jack Hylton Music Room
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FuMar Concert:
FuMar is a Sax/ Piano duo based in Paris.
Phil Furneaux and Krys Markowski have been friends for over 40 years, they started playing together in 2010, lots of Skype and Ohmstudio for remote collaborations. Their first concerts in 2012, a first album “Lanercost Sessions”, and a tour of France in 2015, established the duo.
The FuMar repertoire is rooted in jazz but stays bluesie and funky and mellow with a constant dialogue between piano and sax. They have the philosophy that “music is a transmission of emotion” and attempt to develop pieces between melancholic to happy happy, comforting to the unexpected, so the audience experience a range of emotions during their concerts.
Their second album “Lanercost Sessions 2”, recorded in a 13th Century Piory in Cumbria includes their two original compositions and explores classical fusion. Gabriel Faure’s “Apres un Reve” is accelerated, Satie’s “Gymnopedie” is stretched out, Beethoven’s string quartet “Op 131” is sampled and Bach’s prelude no 1 is blended with Tom Jobim Bossas.
In Sept 2016 enjoyed a successful French tour of the album travelling from Paris to Toulouse playing 7 concerts in 12 days, travelling 2000Km, making a nice profit (!) and leading to some commissioned works.
Website: www.phil-furneaux.co.uk/FuMar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuMarMusic/
Album: Lanercost Sessions 2: http://cdbaby.com/cd/fumar
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHetuScZbKw
Email: phil@phil-furneaux.co.uk
https://soundcloud.com/user-323582938/sunday-morning-in-paris
Organiser Phil Furneaux, Honorary Teachng Fellow, Lancaster University and Institute of Physics Network Coordinator for Cumbria.
Organiser of FuMar Concert, Album Tour: The Lanercost Sessions 2/ Jack Hylton Music Room
Phil Furneaux has worked as a Physics teacher Cumbria for 34 years. He was a metallurgy graduate and started is teaching carreer as a chemist. He soon realised the beauty of Physics and how all things can be worked out from the fundadments. He had to work hard to improve his knowledge and had a breakthrough when he was fortunate to follow a Masters at Lancaster University in Physics and Education where he was able to follow some physics undergradte courses.
Following an IOP secondment to the Lancaster Physics Department in 2008, he continued to work there as an Ogden Science officer developing outreach events for school.
He is now retired and enjoys organising CPD events for Physics teachers.
He has recently been awarded a Honary Teaching Fellowship at Lancaster University Physics Department.
