Tori Freestone

Saxophonist, flautist and Ivor Novello Award winning composer Tori Freestone has performed with Internationally renowned players from the world of jazz, folk and world music including world renowned Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, Cleo Laine/Dankworth Band, Huw Warren, Yazz Ahmed, (featuring on her album Polyhymnia), Ivo Neame Quintet and Octet working alongside musicians including Angelica Sanchez (NY), Iain Ballamy, Stan Sulzman, Jasper Hoiby, Jami Cullum, Andy Sheppard and Jason Yarde. She also currently plays with many large ensembles including the Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra, Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra, Zoe Rahman Octet and holds the tenor 1 chair in the London Jazz Orchestra.

As a bandleader she has featured at jazz clubs and festivals worldwide including Cuba, Reykjavik, Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with recordings/interviews for Jazz FM, Radio 3, Radio 2, Radio Bremen (Germany), ORF (Austria National Radio) and Jazz Canarias (Spain).

She won an Ivor Novello Award for Jazz ensemble composition in 2022 for a track on 2023 critically acclaimed duo album release with pianist Alcyona Mick and her recent trio release was 'Jazz Album of the Month' in the Guardian 2019. Commissions include the 2014 EFG London Jazz Festival which was performed at the QEH supporting Henry Texier and she was shortlisted for the 2017 Arts Foundation Award for Jazz Composition and the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year 2017 plus awarded PRS funding and the Help Musician's Transmission fund, Do it Differently and Record and Release Awards in 2020.

"Freestone has clearly listened widely, but her musicality and broad experiences have stirred all that input into an imposingly original sound", John Fordham, The Guardian 4* review

“I really dig her; she’s so organic… She sounds very relaxed, but she’s got a real burn to her playing on the tenor saxophone... my ears never get tired", Ingrid Jensen' 'Artist Choice' Article Jazz Times, USA