The Lyric Feature - Guy Barker: Virtuoso, Maverick, Polymath
The second of the two features in which the acclaimed jazz and classical trumpeter, composer and arranger Guy Barker discusses his remarkably diverse career focuses on his prolific original compositions and arrangements across the classical, jazz, film, theatre, music-theatre, and radio and television spectrums, and it includes a world premiere performance, recorded specially for the programme, with a moving story - Guy and Anoesjcka de Lorenzo tell us how the healing power for her of composing privately and without any training at the piano for many years has flowered into a new domain of inventive composition through Guy's discovery of her striking talent and his brilliant arrangement of her music into a haunting new creation.