moonrise trio
"a microcosmic world ... like a faberge egg or Elizabethan miniature, Moonrise is rich in detail"
Jazzwise Magazine
Olivia Murphy - Clarinet
Becca Wilkins - Vocals
Olly Chalk - Piano
While Murphy is known to create "some of the most exciting large ensemble jazz emerging from London" (UK Jazz News), Moonrise Trio is her vessel to venture into smaller scale composition, performing on clarinet alongside long term friends and collaborators Becca Wilkins (voice) and Olly Chalk (piano).
Moonrise Trio have a penchant for the otherworldly; music that places you at once in a vibrant, verdant forest or perhaps an abandoned grand hotel. The name "Moonrise" is inspired by Murphy's admiration of director Wes Anderson's story telling and the detail and beauty within every frame (Olivia's favourite film is Moonrise Kingdom). Whether the trio are performing their compositions or original arrangements of their favourite songs, they hope to achieve a similar effect.
The trio's first EP Tomorrow Songs was recorded in isolation 2020, commissioned by Stoney Lane Records and Tony Dudley-Evans for the online Around The Houses Festival. The second (self- titled) EP was funded by PRSF through the Jazzlife Alliance Young Composer Award which Olivia won in 2021, and released on Lyte Records in 2022.
Recent and upcoming performances include Birmingham (Cherry Reds), Berlin (Donau115) and London Jazz Festival (Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall)
This self-titled EP is a collection of songs which venture into a fantastical dreamworld of one night’s sleep. When this world becomes hazed in the daylight, sometimes we find ourselves pining to remember the imagined people and places that have become lost within reality.
