The Peter Borthwick Quartet

The Peter Borthwick quartet is Peter Borthwick with Janette Mason, Simon Little & Katie Patterson
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JANETTE MASON
PIANO

Janette Mason, from her high profile gigs throughout the 90’s touring with artists like Seal, Oasis, k.d.Lang and Robert Wyatt, to the years on camera as Musical Director for Jonathan Ross and Antoine De Caunnes, has proven to be a consummate musician and a standout talent in Jazz, Pop, Indie, Rock and World Music. A mainstay of the British Jazz scene for over a decade, Ms. Mason has toured her unique sound in Europe, Israel, Japan, Thailand the United States, playing everywhere from The Atlanta and Rochester Jazz Festivals to Carnegie and Albert Hall.

Janette is also a successful recording artist and arranger. Her hit debut album, Din and Tonic, was shortlisted by Guardian Jazz Critic John Fordham as a contender for "Jazz Album of the Year." January 2009 brought the release of Alien Left Hand, featuring Julian Siegel, Tom Arthurs, Lea DeLaria, which garnered a Parliamentary Jazz nomination.

KATIE PATTERSON
DRUMS

Katie Patterson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1988. She was very lucky to have attended high school at Cobequid Educational Centre in Truro, NS with its nationally recognized band program. Music developed into a way of life for Katie, and the music at CEC took her to many band competitions and festivals across the country. Katie learned about orchestral percussion, latin music, big band drumming, jazz, funk and fusion drumming and much more. Katie has played with National Concert Band of Canada (winning Most Outstanding Percussionist in 2006) and the National Youth Band of Canada. After Katie graduated from high school, she moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to pursue a professional career in music, along with deciding where she would do her degree.

Katie lived in Halifax from 2006 until 2008. In that time she was fortunate to be a busy working musician. She started her own band, The Allsorts and began composing material for that group. They played at the Atlantic Jazz Festival, Stayners Wharf and other venues in and around Halifax. She studied classical theory part time at Dalhousie University and also played in the Dalhousie University Big Band. In 2008 Katie jump over the pond and enroll at Leeds College of Music to continue to develop her craft.

SIMON LITTLE
BASS

Born in London, Simon started learning the double bass at school in Dorset with Barry Glynn. He went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London (1999-2003) receiving tuition from Kevin Rundell, Jeff Clyne and Steve Watts. He first  picked up an electric bass aged 15 and has never looked back. 

Perhaps best known as the bassist with The Divine Comedy and Duke Special, he also tours regularly with Clare Teal and Maggie Reilly. As a jazz bass player he plays with Kate Eden, Lea DeLaria, Ian Shaw, and Nina Ferro. Simon has also played and recorded with Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, A Girl Called Eddy, Chris Difford, Jamie Cullum, Liane Carroll, Beth Rowley, Ben Folds, Norma Winstone, Claire Martin, Pee Wee Ellis, Boo Hewerdine, Ryan Edwards, Alan Barnes, Polly Gibbons, Symeon Cosburn, Newton Faulkner, Sarah Moule, Julie McKee and The Ronnie Scott’s Allstars amongst others.