Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne (born 1977 in Avebury, England) is a British pianist, keyboard player and improviser based in West Yorkshire. He studied jazz at Leeds College of Music. He has made solo piano and synthesizer records, among them Montauk Variations (2012) and moogmemory (2016), played entirely on a converted Memorymoog. Bourne won the Perrier Young Jazz Musician of the Year award in 2001 and the innovation prize at the BBC Jazz Awards in 2002. He co-led The Electric Dr M, Distortion Trio and the trio Bourne/Davis/Kane, and has played with Marc Ribot, Paul Dunmall, Annette Peacock and John Zorn.