We're delighted to welcome back award-winning clarinettist Julian Marc Stringle, hailed by Sir John Dankworth as "the best clarinet player to emerge in British jazz for several decades."

Julian started as a child prodigy reed player. He studied at the Latymer Music School and London College of Music, learning clarinet with Wilf Keeley and composition with William Lloyd Webber. He made his TV debut with Acker Bilk at just 14, leading his teenage Dixieland band "Young Jazz." At 17, he formed a modern jazz quintet and toured Europe.