Biography Will Gregory Moog Ensemble



Will Gregory
is a muti-instrumentalist English musician and record producer from Bristol, England.

Gregory formed electronic pop group Goldfrapp in 1999 alongside bandmate Alison Goldfrapp. Together they have released seven albums, most recently ‘Silver Eye’ in 2017, and scored a string of hits including ‘Strict Machine’, ‘Ooh La La’, ‘Lovely Head’ and ‘A&E’. The multi-platinum selling band have been nominated for the Mercury Prize, multiple Grammy Awards and won an Ivor Novello for ‘Strict Machine’. Goldfrapp have also scored the soundtracks to the films My Summer of Love and Nowhere Boy, and wrote the music for Carrie Cracknell’s National Theatre acclaimed production of Medea.

Outside of Goldfrapp, Gregory has performed with artists including Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, Portishead and Michael Nyman. His first opera Picard in Space premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2011, and in 2014 he was commissioned to produce a piece for orchestra and Moog, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Gregory also wrote part of the score for the National Theatre of Scotland’s James III trilogy in 2016 which was subsequently performed nationally.

Outside of pop producing and touring, Gregory has an extensive scoring credits list, with multiple documentaries (Serengeti 1 & 2, Spy in the Wild, Arcadia), Film & TV scores (BBC’s ‘Chloe’, AMC’s ‘Soulmates’), as well as operas, concert works, and music for theatre. He also writes/arranges for and performs with his own Will Gregory Moog Ensemble, a ten-piece orchestra of mono synths, which performs synth versions of new and existing works.

The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
first performed together in 2005 as part of the Bath Festival, recreating some of the ‘Switched on Bach’ arrangements of Wendy Carlos in the Seventies. As one half of the electronic music sensation Goldfrapp, the keyboard-player and composer Will Gregory is one of the UK’s leading advocates of using synthesizers and electronic instruments to create new sounds and reinvent old ones. The band perform a mixture of specially composed music, transcriptions of classical works, and their own versions of music from popular culture and film scores.

The band have gone on to play concerts and electronic music festivals throughout the UK and Europe. They appeared with Human League’s Martyn Ware at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in 2018, played at the Philharmonie de Paris for the Days Off festival in July 2019 and were guest artists for the BBC Concert Orchestra’s concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing at the BBC Proms 2019. They have made several broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, including an enjoyably spooky one from the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station.

The band draws on a pool of players, and usually appears with between 6 and 10 performers, depending on the music. The current lineup comprises Will Gregory, Adrian Utley, Simon Haram, Dan Moore, Graham Fitkin, Ruth Wall, Vyv Hope-Scott, Eddie Parker, Ross Hughes and Georgie Ward.

“Deep, deep inside this substantial set I am immersed in the ceremonial … musicians and audience transcend the here and now as we journey towards the sublime.” - Louder than War / Manchester RNCM

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