Charles Kieny Accordionist Composer mushRoom
Ellen Wilkinson
  • April 19, 2023

meet the hosts Charles Kieny: Augmented Accordionist and Composer

Ever wondered what you get when you combine jazz and metal music? Accordionist and composer Charles Kieny is determined to find out, with his experimental ensemble CKRAFT spanning centuries of musical influence, from monks of the Middle Ages to the French band Gojira. We crossed the metaphorical channel to chat to him on zoom and gleaned some practical tips for independent musicians starting out in France, as well as discovering his “crush” on the cello with his more intimate chamber project, Crozphonics...
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Ellen Wilkinson Oboist
mushRoom
  • December 18, 2021

meet the musicians Talking with oboist and writer Ellen Wilkinson

Ellen Wilkinson is a third-year undergraduate oboist at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She is also the founder and chief editor of ‘RAMpage’, the Royal Academy of Music’s student newspaper, which she set up in the first 2020 lockdown. Ellen ‘enjoys meeting new people’ and with a long-held love for literature and writing, she joined the team with a hope to help create and expand the mushRoom community by interviewing our musicians and hosts, and writing about exciting musical projects...
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