Ivo Neame

Ivo Michael Beale Neame is a British jazz pianist and composer. In addition to leading his own bands he is a member of several European jazz groups including Phronesis, the Marius Neset Quintet, and the Kairos 4Tet. He is a Professor of Jazz Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Biography

Neame, a grandson of composer Shena Fraser, was born in Kent into the Shepherd Neame brewing family. He attended The King's School, Canterbury, and studied jazz saxophone at London's Royal Academy of Music in a year-group that included pianist Gwilym Simcock, and was mentored by Martin Speake and Steve Buckley, as well as F-IRE Collective founder Barak Schmool and Milton Mermikides.
Since leaving RAM in 2003 Ivo has performed with highly esteemed musicians at home and abroad such as Kenny Wheeler, Hermeto Pascoal and Gilad Hekselman. He has played on more than 40 albums as a sideman and a leader and tours regularly with his quintet, octet and now solo piano, as well as with Phronesis and Marius Neset. He was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2013.

2023: Appointed Artist in Residence, Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
2021: Nominated for "Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble", Ivors Academy
2018: Nominated for "Jazz Composition for Small Ensemble", BASCA Composer Awards
2017: "Jazz Ensemble of the Year", Parliamentary Jazz Awards
2014: Nominated for "Best Jazz Act", MOBO Awards
2013: Awarded ARAM
2012: "Best Jazz Act" - London Awards for Art and Performance
2012: Nominated for "UK Jazz Instrumentalist of the year", Jazz FM awards
2012: Nominated for "Album of the Year", Parliamentary Jazz Awards
2011: "Best Jazz Act", MOBO Awards
2010: "Album of the year" in Jazzwise Magazine
2010: "Album of the year" in MOJO Magazine
Discography

;Within Phronesis, piano trio

;Within Kairos 4Tet, led by Adam Waldmann

;Within Dave Manington's Riff Raff

;Within Marius Neset

;Within Gemini, quartet led by Jim Hart

;With other projects