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Biography: Filomena Campus “Campus is a highly musical singer” The Telegraph Filomena Campus is a Sardinian jazz vocalist and lyricist, as well as a theatre director and producer. As a jazz vocalist Filomena has toured and collaborated with top UK jazz artists including Evan Parker, Guy Barker, Orphy Robinson, Huw Warren, Byron Wallen, Cleveland Watkiss, Jean Toussaint, Kenny Wheeler, the London Improvisers Orchestra and fellow Sardinian musicians Paolo Fresu and Antonello Salis. She has performed at several international jazz festivals in Edinburgh, Berlin, Croatia, Birmingham, Notting Hill, Manchester, Munich and Cagliari. In 2013 Filomena Campus launched her My Jazz Islands Festival, in which she seeks to unite her Sardinian roots with Italian and UK jazz musicians. The production Italy VS England, written by the Italian author Stefano Benni and with music by Steve Lodder and Dudley Philips, premiered at the festival in Cagliari and London in 2013 and will be revived in a new adaptation at this year's Theatralia Jazz Festival. Over the last three years Campus succeeded in presenting an impressive international line-up of jazz artists. In 2010 Filomena founded her own Filomena Campus Quartet with pianist Steve Lodder and Dudley Philips on double bass. Their Jester of Jazz project culminated in a recording in 2012 featuring the American saxophonist Jean Toussaint and British flautist Rowland Sutherland. Drummer Martin France joined the band in 2012. Together with Cleveland Watkiss, the winner of the 2010 London Jazz Award for best vocalist, Campus forms a vocal duo. Her most recent recording from 2014 is with guitarist Giorgio Serci: Scaramouche. Nicky Thomas Media [email protected] | www.nickythomasmedia.com 020 3714 7594 | 07768 566 530 .

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