Sarah Moule’s professional career began singing in Soho bars in the mid 1990s. She joined the John Wilson Orchestra in 1996 and remained with the band until 2002 when the first of her four CDs, ‘It’s A Nice Thought’, which featured songs by Fran Landesman and Simon Wallace, was released on Linn Records. This was followed by ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ (2004, Linn Records), ‘A Lazy Kind of Love’ (2008, Red Ram Records) and ‘Songs From The Floating World’ (2014, Red Ram Records), and she is now acknowledged as one of the foremost interpreters of Landesman lyrics.

She has been a featured artist at the Southbank Centre and performed in all of London’s major jazz rooms, from Ronnie Scott’s Club to the Royal Albert Hall in ensembles ranging from piano and voice to jazz quartet (Simon Wallace – piano, Mick Hutton – bass, Paul Robinson – drums), to a three year tenure with Sound of 17 big band and on occasion singing with symphony orchestra. She performed with Capital City Jazz Orchestra at Brecon Jazz Festival in 2016 and toured with Bob Dorough on his last two visits to the UK. Sarah has performed at the Welsh Proms and Scarborough, Swanage, Ealing and London Jazz Festivals amongst many others. She was invited by British tenorman Duncan Lamont to perform his Songbook in London alongside Norma Winstone MBE. Sarah is currently recording her fifth CD.

Simon Wallace has had a 40 year international career as a composer, performer, musical director, and record producer. He grew up in South Wales, studied piano and cello at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and graduated in music from University College Oxford before studying with jazz musicians in London and New York.

He has been active on the UK jazz scene since 1978 when he was a founder member of the Mike Mower Quartet (GLLA Young Jazz Musicians of the Year). He has played with many leading jazz instrumentalists and been musical director for jazz singers Clare Teal, Ian Shaw, Gill Manly and Claire Martin. Since its inception at Ronnie Scott’s in 2009 he has been a key part of Jumoke Fashola’s monthly Jazz Verse Jukebox nights combining free improvisation with spoken word.

From 1993 until her death in 2011 he wrote with renowned American lyricist Fran Landesman publishing over 300 songs. So far more than 50 have been recorded by singers on both sides of the Atlantic. Theatre shows based on their work have been produced in London, Bath, Edinburgh, New York, Chicago, St Louis and Gdansk.

For 30 years he worked with the late Simon Brint writing and producing music for film and TV beginning with with ‘A Shocking Accident’ (Oscar for best short film 1981) and culminating with Ronnie Corbett’s 2010 BBC Christmas show ‘The One Ronnie‘. They wrote and produced music for some of Britain’s most popular television shows including: ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, ‘French and Saunders’ and ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’.

His concert works include two symphonies commissioned by the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra for Thai royal state occasions.

Simon has worked extensively in theatre and has had shows produced at the National Theatre, the Young Vic and the Edinburgh Festival. He was MD for Imelda Staunton’s one woman shows in London, Kenya and New York and spent several years as pianist/arranger/producer for cabaret singer Barb Jungr touring Europe, Australia and the USA. For several years in the ‘90s he toured worldwide as a member of the Lindsay Kemp Company.

He has worked as a sideman and session musician in many diverse areas of music. He has recorded with Jeff Beck, performed with blues legend Hubert Sumlin, been a member of The Waterboys and arranged and directed TV performances by Kylie Minogue, Sinead O’Connor and Marianne Faithful.

He is currently writing and producing music for Julian Clary’s 2019 theatre tour and composing an instrumental jazz suite to be premiered at the London Jazz Festival in November 2018.