Sospiro People
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TIM JACKAMAN - MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SOSPIRO Tim has spent his career in communications – first as a journalist and subsequently as one of the UK’s leading practitioners of corporate and financial public relations. He has advised clients in Europe, the US and the Far East. He specialises in communications, media strategy and acute projects, having worked with many corporations and financial institutions on corporate reputation, merger and acquisition, fund raising and product launch issues. He is currently Chairman of Greentarget, a corporate communications consultancy based in London and Chicago. From 1990 to 2004, Tim was chairman of Square Mile Communications, a leading UK-based corporate and financial communications consultancy, which he sold to Weber Shandwick in 2001. He chaired the European financial communications practise of this international public relations business from 2001 until he resigned in 2004. He has an MA in History and is currently researching for a Phd in seventeenth century ecclesiastical history. From 1997 to 2004 he was a non-executive director of Millwall Football Club. |
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JOHN HARLE - FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF SOSPIRO John is the foremost saxophonist of his generation and the most recorded performer of his instrument in the world. His prolific career as performer, composer, producer, professor and creative consultant has taken him from the studio to the podium of the London Symphony Orchestra, and to collaborating with musical luminaries including Sir Paul McCartney, Sting, David Bowie, Leonard Bernstein, John Tavener, and Herbie Hancock. John's body of work stretches across genres from Opera to Pop, garnering both critical acclaim and commercial success. His Grammy nominated album Terror and Magnificance features vocals by Elvis Costello. He has produced more than 25 jazz and classical albums, composed more than 30 concert works and written over 100 film and television scores, including his Royal Television Society award-winning theme to BBC1's series Silent Witness. He was a 'Castaway' on Desert Island Discs with Sue Lawley in 2003 and is a regular contributer to Radio 3 and 4 on 'In Tune' and 'Front Row'. John is the Founder of SOSPIRO, and creator of The SOSPIRO System®. Alongside his performance career, he has been a teacher and mentor to a new generation of performers in the arts and in business. In1984 he was the youngest ever appointed Professor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. |
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JANE WARD - ADMINISTRATOR Jane began her administrative career in the field of modern dance. She was Company and Orchestral Manager for London Contemporary Dance Theatre and later Administrator for the Richard Alston Dance Company. She moved across to the commercial sector in 1988 when she joined the Decca Record Company as Administrator in the Artists’ Department. She continues to work with various record companies, including Universal Classics and Jazz, as Associate Producer. She has run several Arts Council music tours in the UK and British Council tours in Europe, and is Artistic Administrator for the Chester Music Festival. She has worked with John Harle, in his capacity as composer, saxophonist, teacher and founder of Sospiro, for twenty years. |
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STEVE LODDER - RESIDENT PIANIST Steve studied at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He taught music before developing an interest in jazz and improvised styles, which led to working with the elite of the UK’s jazz musicians including: Andy Sheppard, John Etheridge, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett and Sarah Jane Morris. Internationally, Steve has been a member of George Russell’s ‘Living Time Orchestra’ since the early ‘90’s and has toured with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Ernestine Anderson. He met with John Harle also in the early ‘90’s and recorded the ‘Shadow of the Duke’, and ‘Terror and Magnificence’, alongside Elvis Costello. Many other projects with John have followed, including working with Paul McCartney on his ‘Standing Stone’ and ‘Ecce cor Meum’. In the last few years Steve has collaborated with Robert Wyatt in a songwriting team for Brazilian singer Monica Vasconcelos, worked with Israeli drummer Asaf Sirkis in his group ‘Inner Noise’, and recorded his own album ‘Bout time 2’. The last 3 years have also included 3 books; one on the ‘70’s output of Stevie Wonder, one on the Hammond organ and it’s players, and the latest, the ‘Keyboard Bible’, an interactive tutorial/CD/DVD. Steve is the resident pianist with Sospiro, performing regularly with John Harle in Performance/Lectures, and takes part in Masterclasses and Workshops. |
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