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Mike Westbrook’s compositions range from large-scale works such as The Cortege and London Bridge is Broken Down to stage musicals, opera and experimental theatre, and pieces for radio, TV and cinema. He has toured world-wide and made over fifty albums, among them Citadel/Room 315, featuring John Surman, Glad Day, settings of William Blake and On Duke’s Birthday, dedicated to Duke Ellington. His Big Band Rossini was the first jazz work ever to be featured in the BBC Proms. Theatre work includes Adrian Mitchell's Tyger, staged by the National Theatre in 1971. Television music credits include the award-winning BBC drama Caught On a Train. His opera Coming Through Slaughter, about the New Orleans cornetist Buddy Bolden, was based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje. Collaborations with Kate Westbrook include the one-woman opera Cape Gloss, Turner in Uri, inspired by JMW Turner’s travels in the Alps and Paintbox Jane about the painter Dufy. Their albums include Chanson Irresponsable, with the New Westbrook Orchestra, Art Wolf, dedicated to the 18th-century Swiss painter Caspar Wolf and, with saxophonist Chris Biscoe, “Three into Wonderfull” by The Westbrook Trio. Others include The Serpent Hit, a political fable, and A Bigger Show, with The Uncommon Orchestra. Kate’s GRANITE, inspired by Dartmoor, was released in 2018. The latest, CATANIA, was recorded at a Mike Westbrook Music Festival in Sicily in 1992. He has released two solo piano albums, Paris and Starcross Bridge.