Ida Hollis is a bassist and guitarist living and working in London. Since graduating from Birmingham Conservatoire’s B.Mus jazz course Ida has been working as a performer, recording artist and instrumental tutor.
As a performer Ida has played with an eclectic array of musicians on a wide variety of projects - from jazz bands to musical theatre productions. She is currently composing and recording a debut EP of original music to be released later this year. She is also very active on the UK music scene playing with various jazz, folk and fusion outfits including the popular high-energy band Lydian Collective, whose music has received over 2.4 million Spotify streams and more than 1.4 million YouTube views. Together they are currently working on a second album after the success of the first album ‘Adventure’ reaching the top 10 in the iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and Bandcamp Jazz charts within just days of its release. Ida has performed at venues such as Cadogan Hall, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, 606 Jazz Club, Birmingham Symphony Hall and London’s Southbank Centre as well as at many festivals, including Glastonbury, Latitude and Green Man. In the past she has performed with some of the UK’s finest musicians including Gwilym Simcock and Tate Britain Resident Artist Tim Whitehead, and at prestigious events - for example the re-opening of Birmingham Town Hall hosted by Giles Peterson and at The New Players Theatre with highly-acclaimed Broadway composer Scott Alan.
Ida is also a passionate teacher and currently offers private instrumental tuition in Guitar, Bass Guitar and Ukulele. For those interested, more information can be found on the Lessons page. Ida runs several ‘Guitar Clubs’ in primary schools, has given jazz workshops in secondary schools and for several years was the house bass player on Tim Whitehead and Tony Woods’ jazz summer school 'What’s Your Story?'.
Read my interviews for Bass Guitar Magazine and Bass Quarterly on the Blog
