LMR Trio

South African Noteworthy Performances

• Numerous private functions/parties/weddings
• The opening of Frames and Things Art Gallery, Somerset West
• The Forge ceramic studio, Kalk Bay (with Bruce Muirhead)
• Stanford Festival (with Bruce Muirhead & Rayelle Goodman)
• On The Edge of Wrong improvised music festival, Intimate Theatre, Feb 2008.
• Nassau Auditorium, June 2008 (with Bruce Muirhead)

Members

The members of LMR Trio are all highly experienced, professional and formally trained musicians with many highly rated concerts and productions under their belts. They have performed at prestigious venues in South Africa and abroad.

Lisa Bauer - vocals / arrangement / composition / drumkit

Originally from Gauteng, Lisa graduated from the South African College of Music at UCT in 2004 with a degree in Jazz Performance in vocals and drum kit (with a distinction in singing).

Lisa started singing harmonies to her father’s LP’s of Classical Music, Musicals and Jazz artists such as Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennet, Oscar Petersen and Ray Brown, from age 4. She sang as a soloist in her primary school choir, performed professionally as a guitarist/singer/drummer during High School, studied the violin from age 12 and drums from the age of 16. It was in 1998 while studying classical piano and violin at Stellenbosch that Lisa joined Gavin Fullard’s Jazz vocal group Track Five (in the style of bands such as Manhattan Transfer and Take 6) as an alto.

Lisa recorded two albums with Track Five who also performed with Big Bands Jazz Attack, UCT Big Band, The Glenn Miller Orchestra South Africa and the Jonny Cooper Big Band. She has also performed, recorded and has been a member of projects and artists that include The Glen Miller Orchestra South Africa, Mamavox (with Amanda Tiffin, Monique Hellenberg and Mimi Ntenjwa), The Rudimentals, Souled (with Melanie Scholtz, Raghnild Tveitan and Shane Cooper) and released an EP with electro-lounge group Nightlife Conspiracy in 2008. Apart from her own Quartet, she currently works with groups such as Baobab Three and One Sky (with Matthew Rice & Max Starcke).

Max Starcke - electric bass / guitars / saxophones / composition

Maxim Starcke graduated from the South African College of Music UCT with a BMus in 2004. Majoring in Classical Guitar and Composition, he also received a distinction in Ethnomusicology. Max has performed with a diverse array of musicians and performers including Starkravingsane, AlanFunk, Casta Alma, Hotwater, Nightlife Conspiracy, Matthew Rice Trio, La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre (appearing recently in the Esencias Flamenco production) and The Eden Project dance company, among others in the Jazz, Rock, World and Classical fields. Recently he has produced music for Ben Collins’ award winning film ‘Screenplay’ and the short film ‘Stripped’.

Max’s commissioned soundscape for Leila Anderson’s movement/performance art piece ‘Shlof shoyn mayn kind’ was featured at FRESH II at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and the Out of the Box visual arts and puppetry festival both in 2007. He also wrote and recorded music for Sanjin Muftic's one-man play ‘The life and work of Petrovic Petar’ that was staged at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2008. Max is currently enrolled in Masters in Composition at UCT, and recently performed with Hot Water at festivals in Swaziland and Holland.

Ronan Skillen - tabla / assorted & extended percussion / slide didgeridoo

Ronan Skillen, a didgeridoo player and percussionist, studied tabla under tuition of tabla master Akram Khan in the Indian city of Delhi. He has performed and recorded with many top musicians in South Africa. Recently his most notable performances have been with Starkravingsane, the 'Guardian of the Flame' (Jazzart production), Hot Water, Roger Lucey, Moreira Project, Matthew Rice Trio, La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre, The Eden Project, Rus Nerwich’s Mantras4ModernMan, Johnny Clegg,  Jazz & Indian Music Fusion band Babu and the electric piano & percussion duo Tonik. Ronan has recorded and appeared on albums with Babu (who also performed at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in 2008), Lisa Bauer, Mantas4Modern Man, and Tonik (whose album was mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London).