Victor Gutierrez Trio

Victor Gutierrez, piano, Tom Rivière, double bass, Steve ‘Chief’ Hanley, drums
The trio is a project band led by the award-winning spanish pianist and composer Victor Gutierrez.

Created in 2014, its members are some of the most sought-after musicians in the Yorkshire scene. The band aims to contribute to the long piano trio tradition by bringing fresh and contemporary arrangements of standards from the Grat American Songbook, as well as paying tribute to some of the most famous piano trios in history, like Bill Evans, Kenny Barron, Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau or Michel Petrucciani trios.

Victor Gutierrez, from Madrid, is a pianist, arranger and award-winning composer, Summa Cum Laude graduated at Berklee College of Music (Boston-USA) and scholarship recipient at the Royal Academy of Music for Postgraduate Studies 2015 (London-UK), he has worked in projects and recordings around the world with world-class musicians and producers like
the multiple Grammy-winning Javier Limón (Casa Limón), Jeremy Loucas (Esperanza Spalding, Dianne Reeves), Terri Lyne Carrington (Herbie Hancock Quartet), Harvie S (Kenny Barron Trio), Concha Buika, Mark Whitfield (Elianne Elias Group), Farah Siraj, Mark Walker (Oregon), Matt Geraghty and Yuzuka Takemoto among many others, besides his work as arranger and producer
in NYC and the Tri State Area. As a composer he has written the original soundtracks for the short movie ‘Airless’ (NYC film festival), and received the Alex Ulanowsky and Herb Pomeroy Awards in Jazz Composition. As a leader, it outstands his debut album “Social Shapes” (DreamCastle Records), and his arrangements and improvisations over Chopin works for the NY-based ‘Gwen
Rakotavao Dance Company’.

Steve ‘Chief’ Hanley, drums: is a recent first class honours graduate from Leeds College of Music and is part of a fresh generation of up and coming musicians from the northern quarter of the UK. Hanley has performed and collaborated with many prestigious players including Mornington Locket (Ronnie Scott), Neil Yates (Edition Records Artist), Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orchestra), Jim Corry (Jamiroquai), Jamile Sheriff and Tori Freestone (London’s Loop Collective) to name a few. Hanley’s approach to the trio generates a unique voice, through intrinsic grooves and melodic
improvisation.

Tom Rivière, double bass is a bass player, composer and improviser whose talents are much sought after in the North of England.