Booking Tours, Building Your Brand, Direct to Fan Releases, Funding, General Release Planning, Live, Merch, Personal Career Development, Recording Music Videos & Live Sessions, Songwriting / Production / Creative Arrangement, Spotify / Streaming Economy Samuel Nicholls Booking Tours, Building Your Brand, Direct to Fan Releases, Funding, General Release Planning, Live, Merch, Personal Career Development, Recording Music Videos & Live Sessions, Songwriting / Production / Creative Arrangement, Spotify / Streaming Economy Samuel Nicholls

Simeon Walker

Leeds-based pianist & composer Simeon Walker has quickly emerged as a leading light in the burgeoning Modern Classical scene, performing and touring extensively across the UK and Europe. He has supported S. Carey, Neil Cowley, LYR, Submotion Orchestra, Loscil & Erland Cooper and performed notable live sets at Latitude & Timber Festivals. In addition to his acclaimed first two albums 'Mono' and 'Winnow', he will conduct a 28-date UK tour in Autumn 2023 in support of his latest 'Imprints' release, whilst his piece ‘Reverie’ features on the first official Piano Day compilation by Berlin-based LEITER label, alongside Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds and Chilly Gonzales.

Regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC 6Music, BBC Introducing, KEXP and Scala Radio, his music has received overall listening figures in excess of 30 million streams across platforms. He also founded and curates Brudenell Piano Sessions - an intimate and varied live music series highlighting the diverse music being composed and performed on the piano, hosted at Leeds’ iconic Brudenell Social Club.

Having received funding support from Help Musicians, PRS Foundation and Arts Council England for his work as an independent artist, Simeon also performs regularly across numerous genres and contexts, whilst also working as a freelance session musician, composer & arranger, educator and consultant.

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General Release Planning, Spotify / Streaming Economy, Direct to Fan Releases, PRS, Publishing & Syncs (royalties related to songwriting), Neighbouring Rights / PPL (royalties related to owning recordings), Contracts / Legal, Live, Merch, Building Your Brand, PR / Radio, Songwriting / Production / Creative Arrangement, Funding (e.g. PRSF, Help Musicians, Arts Council) Samuel Nicholls General Release Planning, Spotify / Streaming Economy, Direct to Fan Releases, PRS, Publishing & Syncs (royalties related to songwriting), Neighbouring Rights / PPL (royalties related to owning recordings), Contracts / Legal, Live, Merch, Building Your Brand, PR / Radio, Songwriting / Production / Creative Arrangement, Funding (e.g. PRSF, Help Musicians, Arts Council) Samuel Nicholls

Whiskas

Samuel Nicholls or whiskas as he is mainly known in the music industry, is a Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds Beckett University, founding the BA Music Industries Management course and the founder & director of Music Local, responsible for Music:Leeds and Launchpad.

Previously, whiskas has run a music venue and live promotions company, founded the Dance To The Radio record label and was guitarist in the band ¡Forward, Russia!, signed to Mute / EMI Records in North America as well self-releasing in Europe, achieving two UK Top 40 singles.

Managing projects such as Live At Leeds Unconference and Under The Owls, a free music & live art festival in Leeds, led him to be appointed as an advisor for organisations and groups such as Yorkshire Festival, Leeds 2023 Artistic Programme, PRS Foundation and Yorkshire Sound Women Network.

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