Steve Berry

Steve Berry has over twenty years experience in performing, teaching, composing and arranging, with his first career success being as Jazz Bassist and Composer/Arranger with the London-based jazz collective Loose Tubes in the early 1980s.

Steve has held Artist-in Residencies across the UK, and now divides his time between Liverpool and Manchester; as a senior lecturer at the RNCM, as Teaching Fellow for Music at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and as a Jazz and Improvisation tutor for Chetham’s School of Music. As well as maintaining an abiding passion for performance, he is the course director of the Burnley Jazz Summer School and is increasingly involved leading music workshops in a huge variety of contexts, ranging from residencies on behalf of Festivals, Orchestras and Local Authorities, through to one-off visits to individual schools, and also InSet for Education Authorities and Music Support Services.

Steve has toured with many musicians over the last 20 years include all the people in Loose Tubes (Batchelor, Bates, Ballamy, Buckley.. in fact a long & distinguished list of 20 or more people who continue to leave their creative mark), then in no particular order; Mike & Kate Westbrook, Ute Lemper, Lew Tabakin, Jessica Williams, John Surman, Kathryn Tickell, Dagmar Kraus, Mike Walker, Ian Carr, Billy Jenkins, Art Farmer, Tal Farlow, Scott Hamilton, Nikki Iles, Anthony Kerr, Paul Clarvis, Peter Fairclough, Dick Morrissey...........and early on there was a certain amount of touring theatre and musicals, including West Side Story, Blues in the Night, and who could ever forget - Happy As A Sandbag!

In addition to his busy musical life Steve is also amongst a privileged few to have been awarded the RBAC, for his work in the visual arts (1971).