New music, by the new generation of musicians,
for modern players & audiences.
Guy Courtie
percussion - drums - multi-inst - comp - prod
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Guy is the founder and director of NEWVIBE.UK. They graduated as a double award-winner with first-class honours from the Royal College of Music, London during its time as the world's No.1 performing arts institution (QS).
Guy specialises in hand percussion while playing and performing on all styles of perc and drums. Performances include multiple BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony orchestra, joining the "Best Cuban percussionists in London" [The Standard] in TLE's Paradise Under the Stars at only 22, and joining renowned London Cuban bands such as the New Regency Orchestra and Timba Británica. He's sold out Pizza Express Soho with Alex Wilson and Level 42's Mike Lindup, and learnt & played with players like Ralph Salmins & Dave Weckl at the RCM.
Guy's original records and production as a writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist have passed 150,000 streams online, heard on BBC and other national radio as well as at top UK festivals. They have also composed for the BBC Symphony Orchestra percussion section.
Photo Ben Ealovega
lewis kentaro isaacs
vibraphone - drums - percussion - comp - prod
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Lewis Kentaro Isaacs is a British/Japanese vibraphonist, percussionist and composer/producer. His music is defined by his innovative use of the vibraphone flowing through and in between the genres of electronic, contemporary classical and experimental music.
His music is creating a new landscape for solo vibraphone/percussion music and redefining the use of the instrument through his unique performance style and genre-bending surrealist compositions. These compositions showcase the nuance and depth that tuned percussion instruments offer within a new context of experimental electronic, classical and jazz influences. Currently based in London, UK.
lydia cochrane
sax - triple woods - whistle - multi-inst - comp
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With an output spanning contemporary classical, ambient electronic, and big-band jazz, Rob enjoys working across a wide range of styles, and is often drawn to themes of fragmentation, disintegration, and memory in his music.
Rob is the recipient of Liverpool Philharmonic's 2026-27 Rushworth Prize for Composition, and has been commissioned to write a new work for the RLPO's contemporary music group, Ensemble 10:10.
Rob Hughes is a composer, arranger, and cellist based in Manchester, UK. After completing his undergraduate music studies at the University of Manchester, he went on to study for a master’s degree in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with David Horne and Gary Carpenter, graduating in 2025.
COMPOSITION - ARRANGING - CELLO
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rob hughes
Fair play
The music industry is very unfair at the moment.
A goal of starting NEWVIBE.UK was to show that artists can be treated fairly for their valuable work.
The immense majority of sheet music publishers (we're yet to find one who doesn't) take a commission of 80-90%, often higher.
By contrast, we run a generous, no-nonsense 50-50 split with our artists.
We're also self-run, so no larger corporations make huge profits off our backs.
Change has always been rooted in the arts, and we want to show that amazing new music can be shared in a fair & kind way.