Celeste Cantor-Stephens is a trumpet player. She also makes sounds with electroacoustics, guitar, cornet, shower hoses and other objects, and composes. Her work embraces the creative and exploratory, spanning a range of practices and traditions: from free improvisation to klezmer, via jazz, dub-reggae, classical and more. Celeste’s music is deeply connected to aspects of her other work. Please explore the other pages to find out more.
Celeste also teaches; please get in touch via the contact tab or email for further information.
A selection of projects are below. More examples of electroacoustic composition, live scoring, and other forms of musical and interdisciplinary creation can be found on the multimedia page.
Pandemic stories told through spoken word and a world-jazz fusion. Led by composer and double-bassist Daphna Sadeh, and supported by Arts Council England.
Follow us on Facebook @the.lockdown.project.official for more information and news of upcoming performances.Carol Baker Memorial Garden
A loving, but unabashedly deviant tribute to the music of Chet Baker, with a nod to his long-suffering third wife, Carol. The sweet lyricism of Baker gets a dose of angular, avant stylings, decidedly more New York neurotic than West Coast cool.
With Celeste Cantor-Stephens on trumpet and Sam Day Harmet on guitar.
A Carol Baker Memorial Garden lockdown video series is online here.
TORU
Free improvisation from a core of Sam Eastmond, Celeste Cantor-Stephens and Andy Watts; joined by a special guest on each record.
With monthly album releases and a relentless commitment, TORU has created over 20 albums, and a couple of Anthologies. The trio have been joined by some of the most innovative, passionate, and forerunning improvising musicians, including Sarah Gail Brand, Noel Langley, Josephine Davies, Moss Freed, Francesca Ter Berg, Sam Day Harmet, Shirley Smart, Nathan Hanson, Harriet Riley and many more beautiful and outrageous creators…
The TORU Bandcamp series is available here.
TORU Anthology 1 is available from Chant Records here.
As a guest or session musician
México
Soundpainting
Orquesta
Sessions in Mexico City, November 2019.
Find out more about the Orquesta here.
Spindle
Ensemble
As part of an extended ensemble, including composition ‘Okemah Sundown’, below.
Hear more of the Ensemble here.
Hannah Moule &
The Moulettes
Part of the Horns ensemble over the Xenolalia EP series.
Explore more of the series and its sounds here.
Previous projects
Will Tun and the
Wasters
Hear more here.