Marlon the Pannist & Luke Bacchus

**Marlon the Pannist** Marlon Hibbert is an award-winning steelpan musician, composer, arranger, and educator from South East London. He is the founder and manager of Endurance Steel Orchestra, and an alumnus of both Kinetika Bloco and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he made history as the first musician to graduate performing on steelpan. Influenced by his Caribbean heritage, Marlon’s music explores his identity as a Black British artist. His work has been showcased at major venues and festivals including Love Supreme Festival, We Out Here, Jazz Re:freshed, Jazz Café, the Royal Albert Hall, and Ronnie Scott’s. **Luke Bacchus **Luke Bacchus is a musician, composer and academic, born and raised in London to Guyanese parents. A finalist in BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022, Bacchus impressed audiences with his treatment of standards, as well as his own unique Caribbean-inspired original music, fuelled by his exploration of his own identity as a Caribbean person. Bacchus describes music as a ‘doorway through which he can explore his heritage’ and his compositions and playing have been hailed by Julian Joseph as having ‘real heart and sincerity’.

Bacchus' exploration of his Caribbean identity has developed into a keen interest in Caribbean music, history and culture, going on to pursue a Masters degree in Caribbean Studies at University College London (UCL), and an academic career researching the Caribbean.