Pablo Sonnaillon 

Pablo Sonnaillon is a Spanish composer, double bassist, improviser and educator based in Liverpool. He studied composition at RNCM. As part of his composition work he has written music for various Indian dance companies such as Sampad and Kala the arts as well as for individual dancers such as Kali Chandrasegaram. As a composer/performer, he is co-leader of The Deportees, a jazz band that recorded their debut album called What Session in 2019 and that performed in Manchester Jazz Festival in 2022. Then in 2024 composed, performed and produced a film “Crystallisation” with visual artist Venya Krutikov as a commission from Dr Hamish Yeung at the University of Birmingham department of Chemistry. This film has been shown in various film festivals in the UK and Germany including the Institute of Physics film festival.

 

Sonnaillon plays and writes music for Grounded Thread, a group of innovative music and dance from Liverpool dance company, Sole Rebel; another of his artistic ventures as a composer/performer is his jazz duet called Bric-a-brac with Liverpool guitarist, Alex McDowall. Bric-a-brac performed bespoke pieces for music and poetry in the Liverpool Empire and Gallery 455. In October 2024, Bric-a-brac gave a performance in collaboration with renowned poet, Raymond Antrobus at the Wirral Poetry Festival. As an improviser, Sonnaillon has also performed with musicians such as Johnny Hunter, David Birchall; collective improvisation ensembles such as London Improvisers Orchestra, Merseyside Improvisers Orchestra; and has written a solo trombone piece for Weston Olencki. 

 

Sonnaillon also has a passion for teaching music both to his private students as well as in primary and high schools in Liverpool.