Pianist and composer Veryan Weston is regarded, by those who have followed his unusual and fascinating musical path, as one of Europe’s great free improvisers, starting from a jazz background, he is one of very few musicians who has managed to absorb and assimilate his far ranging influences (jazz, particularly Thelonius Monk, West African & Pygmy music, geometrical patterns and their correspondences in rhythm and song) so that his music has become truly his own. His 1990 work ‘Songs from a Prison Diary’ with Phil Minton, won the Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize.

He plays regularly in collaboration with Phil Minton, the tenor saxophonoist Trevor Watts, Alto Saxophonist Caroline Kraabel, with extensively with the late Lol Coxhill, and Violinist Jon Rose. As well as working on large solo projects and compositions.

"Veryan Weston is one of the most creative musicians in recent times - or, perhaps, ancient times would be closer to the truth, for what is new emanates from the old and what is old gives birth to the new. Weston presides over this conundrum like a medieval apothecary concocting brilliant and powerful and magical potions that take the form of musical scores invented on the spot where time and space collide.”

“Weston is an artist who follows the prompts of every raw, neural impulse and his music has the pulse of the eternal heartbeat that fibrillates from the centre of his being—his very soul, it would seem”.- Raul de Gama Rose (review of Haste with Hannah Marshall & Ingrid Laubrock)