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Noah Stoneman is a pianist and composer from North London. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York and is adept at a wide range of musical idioms. What binds these different languages together is improvisation; an art which Noah aims to continually forge a personal relationship with throughout his career. He regularly performs and records as a sideman for some of the finest musicians across the UK and NYC from all generations, including Jasper Hoiby, Hillai Govreen, Steve Cardenas, Eric McPherson, Caius Williams, Alex Hitchock, Mark Kavuma, Ruben Fox, Jason Brown, Miles Mindlin, Rachael Cohen and many others. In 2023 Noah released his debut album on Fresh Sound records, produced by long-term mentor and teacher Kit Downes, and received critical acclaim from publications including Jazzwise Magazine and The Guardian.

Caius Williams is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside an ongoing solo project, and often works with improvisation.

Some projects include ?Crosspiece? (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent performances or collaborations with

Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O?Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Sachiko M, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, amongst others.

Caius has been running the GRAIN series at Avalon Cafe in Bermondsey for the last 3 years, which is focussed on programming new and adventurous music and nurturing a growing community with cross-scene and cross-generational collaboration.

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