The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Steve Berry

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Steve Berry has over twenty years experience in performing, teaching, composing and arranging, with his first career success being as Jazz Bassist and Composer/Arranger with the London-based jazz collective Loose Tubes in the mid 1980s.

One of the foremost Jazz educators at work in the UK today, Steve has led animateurships and held Artist-in Residencies across the UK, and now divides the greater majority of his teaching time between Liverpool and Manchester; as a Senior Lecturer at the RNCM, as Teaching Fellow for Music at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and as a Jazz and Improvisation tutor for Chetham´s School of Music.