The Third Man

A live, voice-led project where songs are built openly on stage using live looping, classical instrumentation and electronic rhythm. The focus isn’t technical spectacle, but connection: turning live music into a shared experience that feels joyful, inclusive and immediately accessible.

Who is The Third Man?

SBK on the Violin - Live from TAM London

Steve Bentley Klein

Composer, Arranger and Conductor, Stephen Bentley-Klein has a wide and varied musical career embracing Rock, Classical, Jazz and Ethnic genres together with theatre and film scoring.

He studied the Violin and composition at Guildhall School, London and also Manhattan School, New York with the great Heifetz protege Erik Friedman. Stephen was Musical Director for the International Sam Mendes/Kevin Spacey Bridge Project and has performed extensively at the National Theatre with Sir Trevor Nunn, Sir Nicholas Hytner and Michael Neiman.

For many years he was concert master for Dame Shirley Bassey and also with Barry White, The Moody Blues, Neil Sedaka, Rod Stewart, Burt Bacharach, David Gates (Bread), Johnny Mathis, Elvis Presley-The Concert with the original TCB band, Michael Bolton, David Cassidy and The Four Tops.

He played with the Balanescu Quartet and leads the Inklein Quartet for whom he composed “Brave New World”. His album collaborations include Morcheeba (Who can U Trust?, Big Calm, Fragments of Freedom and Parts of the Process ) David Byrne (Feelings) Uli Jon Roth (Prelude, Transcendental Sky Guitar, Metamorphosis) including touring and the number 1 Paolo Nutini album Sunny Side Up.

He composed the scores for Butterfly Man and the Thai horror The Ghost of Mae Nak. He has played many times for Queen Elizabeth and the Royal family and in April arranged and recorded Celebration for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s marriage, a special gift presented to the Queen and family by Cruise a nominated charity for the occasion.

He joined up with Rock legends Deep Purple to arrange and conduct The Songs that Built Rock tour with band and orchestra in America, Europe and Scandinavia including the live DVD from the closing night of Montreax Jazz Festival 2011. Stephen has just completed two movie scores Titus (a jazz story featuring Archie Shep) and Demon.

Paolo Morena

Singer-songwriter, Music Producer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Writer, Performer, and Artist, a creative entrepreneur, who likes to bring people together.

lf you thought you’d seen and heard it all, music-wise, you’d better prepare for Paolo Morena: his live-looping approach to performance, combined with an astonishing talent for turning out catchy, beautiful, perfectly-crafred songs, is something to behold – and listen to.
Hovering sornewhere between gigging and perfornance art, Paolo’s shows are a masterclass in holding an audience spellbound. The live-looping technique requires the musician to record and play back his own performance as he goes along, so a one-man band can be transformed into anything, from a quartet to a symphony orchestra! A must-see for music-lovers everywhere, Paolo plays gigs up and down the country and across Europe regularly, so do catch him when he’s in town.

randomduck

randomduck’s unique way of mixing visually and his uncanny knowledge of dance music, from the classics to the obscure have quickly gained him notoriety amongst the UK dance and club scene.

His style of play is perfectly suited to a project that fuses classical and rock instrumentation with live looping and our rich British dance music culture.

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