Multi-directional Opera
for the 21st Century
for the 21st Century
Whaletone Opera
- Act 4 Guest Artists
- Act 4 Guest Artists
Charles Hayward
Charles has played and worked with sound since childhood, making music. This has led to wide variety of situations, processes and encounters, from releasing a string of records and CDs from 1975 to the present day, playing throughout Europe as well as Japan, the States and Russia.He likes to use multiple strategies in his work, believing that this best reflects modern life and survival; improvisation is a central approach that opens music up to an arena of creativity that is implicitly egalitarian and inclusive, breaking down orthodox ideas of technique and structure.
Charles was featured in The Wire, July 2005.
Carol Grimes
Carol started singing regularly in the streets of London and along the south coast in the sixties, working with assorted guitar and harmonica players until she formed her first band; THE RACE. This Blues and Folk based outfit worked mainly in the London area, playing mainly clubs and colleges, & supported among other luminaries of the time, Cream, John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, The Yardbirds, Howling Wolf, & Freddy King.In 1998 Carol undertook training In Voice Movement Therapy, an arts therapy rooted in the singing voice. This has given her another paradigm within which to work with others.
Currently she performs her own curious songs & poems and some Jazz Songs with the musicians she has had the phenomenal pleasure to work with over the years, sing with The Shout & for Richard Chew.
Carol recently released her latest CD, "Mother", to rave reviews.
Pete Moser
Pete Moser holds the world record for being the fastest one-man-band in the world (19.2 seconds for 100 metres while playing).He is based in Morecambe and has been the director of 'More Music in Morecambe' for more than ten years. Pete has also written scores for many theatre, opera and dance projects as well as songs for occasions and large-scale choral pieces such as 'Start Again' a celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Recently he appeared on stage at the finale of the Live8 Womad Eden project with Hugh Nankivell and over 100 musicians from Africa. He lives in a house looking across Morecambe Bay.
Kana Hayashi
Kana's background is as an artist training at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music to Masters degree level. She has since exhibited regularly both in Japan and internationally. In addition she has taught workshops and undertakes design for print.
Her visual art skills are a small part of what she brings to Whaletone, with a black belt in Karate, a sack of musical toys and an incredible sense of the play in all things. Kana was a part of the creative team for the making of Act 2 last year.
She now teaches at Kyoto Women's University, is making a picture book with an elementary school in Uji and gives excrutiangly painful taiwanese-style foot massages.
