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Whilst no stranger to Dean Street audiences as an ace trombone player in small groups and with his quartet the Trombafonics, it was only in the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival we welcomed the Callum Au Big Band, playing new band arrangements of Bernstein’s West Side Story, that Dean Street experienced first hand, the Callum Au Big Band, for what was a sensational Sold-out experience.

Born in London to a Scottish mother and a Chinese father, Callum spent most of his formative years in Blackpool before moving to London, where he now lives and works.

Over the past fifteen years, Callum has established himself as one of the busiest arrangers and orchestrators in Europe. He has had the privilege of writing music for many international artists, including the late Quincy Jones, Jamie Cullum, Randy Brecker, and ensembles including the SWR Big Band, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia. In 2019, he was commissioned to arrange the big band songs in the Hollywood movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Cats’.