{"id":25,"date":"2024-11-04T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-11-04T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:32:12","slug":"guitarist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mike Eaves is an accomplished musician, teacher and composer.\u00a0\u00a0He comes from a musical background and has been playing his primary instrument the guitar for over 40 years. Throughout his childhood Mike received expert private tuition from several renowned teachers including Phil Lee, John Etheridge and Cedric West.\u00a0 At the age of twelve he began working with his father\u2019s band playing in local clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike’s professional career began and aged sixteen he was invited to take up the guitar chair with the \u201cNational Youth Jazz Orchestra\u201d with which he spent the next three years touring and working with top jazz artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After leaving N.Y.J.O. Mike became a very sought after musician, working at the highest level in a variety of areas which included studio sessions, television, West End shows, live concerts, and solo performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike now divides his time between playing, teaching and writing music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists worked with include:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Williams, Shirley Bassey, Will Young, Martine McCutcheon, Gareth Gates, Chaka Khan, Dame Kiri de Kanawa, Cleo Laine, Russell Watson, Michael Ball, Neil Sedaka, James Galway,\u00a0 Des O\u2019Connnor, Barbara Dixon, Bonnie Langford, Helen Shapiro, Robert Lindsay, Roger Whittaker, Bruce Forsyth, Stacey Kent, Bob Monkhouse, Lulu, Elaine Paige, Frankie Lane, Sarah Brightman, Barbara Cook, and most of the UK\u2019s top orchestras including The London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Jazz Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Eaves is an accomplished musician, teacher and composer.\u00a0\u00a0He comes from a musical background and has been playing his primary instrument the guitar for over 40 years. Throughout his childhood Mike received expert private tuition from several renowned teachers including Phil Lee, John Etheridge and Cedric West.\u00a0 At the age of twelve he began working … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeaves.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}