News from Andrea

  • January 2024: Music & Solace

    Hello dear music friends,

    Amidst all the global unrest and anguish, I extend my warmest wishes to you and your dearest as we enter the new year. If only 2024 could deliver us a stronger resolve for peace, greater compassion, wisdom and foresight in leadership, and a cessation to atrocities committed on the innocent.

    In the hope that music will continue to provide solace, please see below for gigs with brilliant friends and collaborators.

    With thanks & warm wishes,
    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.

    My latest album Flicker & Polar Bird, featuring John Mackey (saxophone), Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), Rachael Thoms & Liam Budge vocals, Véronique Serret (violin) and a host of fabulous string players from Sydney and Canberra is out now!


  • December New 2023: Circuit Breaker, Across Silence, Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival & more

    Hello everyone,

    I hope you are all well as we enter the final stretch of the year!

    In all the busyness I completely bypassed the November newsletter, only realising in time for the December post...

    November held a few special highlights nonetheless:

    I was privileged to attend the Last Hoorah of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues as a judge for the National Jazz Awards (Bass).

    The Gender Defying Jazz (GDJ) Workshop Series got off to a great start with tutors Flora Carbo, Gian Slater, Kyrie Anderson, Zoe Frater and Sonja Horbelt joining me and a group of wonderful young musicians. I spent a couple of days in the studio with Georgina Lewis recording 41 of my tunes arranged for 2 & 4-hands at the piano - enormous thanks to Yamaha for providing a sublime instrument for the occasion (more on that in 2024).

    I had the pleasure of playing music with beautiful friends at the Jazzlab and Uptown Jazz Cafe, and was even shouted to a couple of days in Torquay thanks to a research retreat provided by the University of Melbourne!

    My new double album Flicker & Polar Bird, which captures the music I created and recorded during my time as the HC Coombs Fellow at the ANU Canberra in 2022 and features John Mackey (saxophone), Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), Rachael Thoms & Liam Budge vocals, Véronique Serret (violin) and a host of fabulous string players from Sydney and Melbourne, is circulating out in the world. Thanks to everyone who has made space to engage with the music. Digital and CD formats are available for purchase from my Bandcamp page.

    December isn't showing signs of slowing down yet with the Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival launching TODAY!

    Monday nights at the Jazzlab will finish the year with The Composers Circle and Wilson/Anning/Keller, while a final gig at Uptown Jazz Cafe for the year will feature a Christmas Quartet with brilliant musicians & friends Julien Wilson, Stephen Magnusson and Sam Anning.

    See my homepage for details on performances.

    Thanks for your support of Australian creative music!

    Warmest wishes,

    Andrea

  • October 2023: Flicker & Polar Bird album release + Melbourne International Jazz Festival

    Hello everyone,

    I am writing to you from gorgeous San Remo in Victoria at the end of a small family holiday, snuck in before the madness of the end of the year truly descends upon us.

    This week sees the launch of a new double album Flicker & Polar Bird, which captures the music I created and recorded during my time as the HC Coombs Fellow at the ANU Canberra in 2022. The music features John Mackey (saxophone), Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), Rachael Thoms & Liam Budge vocals, Véronique Serret (violin) and a host of fabulous string players from Sydney and Melbourne. The official release date is Friday October 6 and you can purchase a digital or CD copy from my Bandcamp page.

    Monday nights at the Jazzlab continue this month with Transients, Celebrating Voice featuring Emma Gilnmartin and Ed Fairlie, and Two & Two featuring Ikigai and Mortlake.

    October in Melbourne features the Melbourne International Jazz Festival - 10 days of incredible music, musicians, new collaborations, launches and more. I'm thrilled to be performing with Canadian trumpeter Ingrid Jensen over a couple of nights at the Jazzlab, as well as performances with the Vanessa Perica Orchestra, The Louisa Rankin Septet (opening for the SFJAZZ Collective), and my brilliant tertiary ensemble Conjuress who will open for the MIJF 2023 Take Note Commission by Cheryl Durongpisitkul.

    See my homepage for details on performances.

    Thanks for your support of Australian creative music!

    Warmest wishes,

    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.

    PS - The Gender Defying Jazz Workshops are back - if you know any aspiring female/gender diverse jazz/improvising musicians, please direct them here.

  • September 2023: Melbourne gigs & a special performance of Journey Home

    Spring has sprung, and with it comes the emergence of new projects, fresh dreams, and the release of things that have been brewing beneath the surface.

    I am getting ready to launch a new double album Flicker & Polar Bird, which captures the music I created and recorded during my time as the HC Coombs Fellow at the ANU Canberra in 2022. The music features John Mackey (saxophone), Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), Rachael Thoms & Liam Budge vocals, Véronique Serret (violin) and a host of fabulous string players from Sydney and Melbourne. I can't wait to share it with you when it is released on October 6.

    For September, you will mainly find me at the Jazzlab on Monday nights, plus my bimonthly visit to Uptown Jazz Cafe. There is also a really special performance of Journey Home, music for solo piano and film, that Hayley Miro Browne and I created in 2019. We will be presenting this at Beleura House in Mornington (where the album was partially recorded on the wonderful Stuart & Sons pianos).

    Here are some words on Journey Home:

    Inspired by the words of Allan Browne, who reported that ‘every great story is usually about the journey home’, Journey Home is a collaboration between pianist/composer Andrea Keller and filmmaker Hayley Miro. They create an experience that combines music and film in mutual accompaniment, not in competition, but rather in full compliment of one another, bringing together images of Australia and the Czech Republic in the 1970’s & 80’s (captured through the lens of Keller’s late father Erik Keller) with today. With a theme centred on universal sentiments of childhood, family and home, Journey Home seems particularly pertinent, given the extraordinary displacement of so many people around the world.

    Music composed and performed by Andrea Keller (piano)

    Photographs by Erik Keller & Hayley Miro Browne

    Film by Hayley Miro Browne

    ”Journey Home is a deeply moving work, an impassioned elegy for the past, and a reclamation of things otherwise lost to us.”
    Review of Journey Home in Rhythms, January 2021, by Des Cowley

    ”Keller creates some of the most beautiful piano music I’ve heard…”
    Review of Journey Home December 10, 2021, The Beauty of Andrea Keller by Ian Muldoon

    Thanks for your support of Australian creative music!

    Warmest wishes,

    Andrea

    PS - The Gender Defying Jazz Workshops are back - if you know any aspiring female/gender diverse jazz/improvising musicians, please direct them here.

  • August 2023: Back in the swing of things!

    I'm back from my mini European tour with Nick Haywood and Niko Schäuble. We had an awesome time performing in Prague (Czech Republic) and Esslingen and Ulm (Germany) - premiering Niko's composition for jazz trio and orchestra 'Clear Waters' in the latter. Loads of fun was had walking summer European streets, rehearsing with orchestra in a school camp facility in Babenhausen (Bavaria), and traveling on the autobahn with Nick & Niko!

    Upon my return, I happily jumped into the recording of album #2 for the Vanessa Perica Orchestra. The music is stunning and the playing is phenomenal - this will be out later in the year!! Another treat since my return has been hanging and playing music with the great Kristin Berardi (on a visit from Switzerland).

    For August, I'm settling back into the swing of Melbourne life, with the uni semester back underway, and performances with a plethora of Australian musical incredibles on Monday's at the Jazzlab, the MJC, the Count's, Uptown Jazz Cafe, and the Melbourne Conservatorium Hanson Dyer Hall series. See the homepage for details.

    Warmest wishes,

    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.

    PS - The Gender Defying Jazz Workshops are back - if you know any aspiring female/gender diverse jazz/improvising musicians, please direct them here.

  • July 2023: European Mini Tour!

    I'm excited to be heading off to Europe on Monday for a mini tour with the great Nick Haywood and Niko Schäuble! Not only am I hoping for warmer weather, but also looking forward to connecting with family and friends and performing in Prague (Czech Republic) and Esslingen and Ulm (Germany). The Ulm gig will feature the world premiere of Niko's composition for jazz trio and orchestra 'Clear Waters'. (See homepage for full details of the gigs).

    While I'm away, the brilliant Kate Kelsey Sugg, Ash Ballat/Stephen Magnusson duo, and 'Meatshell' will be keeping the fires burning on Mondays at the Jazzlab.

    Upon my return, I'll be straight back into it with the recording of Vanessa Perica's second album for the Vanessa Perica Orchestra, alongside gigs with the Mat Jodrell sextet, Transients, Five Below, and Kristin Berardi (on a visit from Switzerland).

    Gig details here.

    Warmest wishes,

    Andrea

  • June 2023: GIJ, AJIRN6, MJC and more acronyms

    Hello everyone,

    I only recently realised that I neglected to send out my monthly newsletter in May (not even my mother noticed...). Regardless, the month still ran, music was made, and new experiences were had.

    Some highlights from May included:

    Attending GIJ - Generations in Jazz (as an adjudicator, performer and workshop presenter). This was held in Mount Gambier, South Australia and was a fabulous weekend of mud, rain, cold, thousands of enthusiastic young people, and incredible energy surrounding jazz and music making!

    Co-chairing and hosting AJIRN6 - the Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network Conference with one of my colleagues at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. This was a superb weekend of musical minds sharing their research on creative music and our jazz & improvisation community. With close to forty presentations (virtual and in person) from Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Singapore, Chile, Austria and Belgium, it was a really inspiring few days of connection and learning.

    One of our brilliant Jazz & Improv ensembles from UniMelb - Masters & Apprentices, directed by Gian Slater and featuring her music for seven vocalists, saxophone, piano, bass and drums, performed at the Jazzlab as part of my Monday night series. The concert was a double bill with the resurrection of Still Night: Music in Poetry my 2016 song cycle performed by vocalists Gian Slater, Josh Kyle, with Stephen Magnusson (guitar), Julien Wilson (saxophone & bass clarinet) and me (piano). This concert was streamed by Oh! Jazz and you can watch it by subscribing to their platform using this 50% discount code: LNeWVbQx

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    The MJC - Melbourne Jazz Co operative celebrated their 40th Anniversary through a sold out concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre in the Elizabeth Murdoch Hall. Enormous gratitude and thanks to Martin Jackson who has been at the helm of the MJC for 40 years, generously building and lifting the scene and all its players, emerging and established. I had the great pleasure of performing in duo with Sandy Evans and some nice words were written about the event, which you can read here (scroll down a bit).

    June will see winter in Melbourne truly take hold. Alongside my regular Monday nights at Jazzlab (featuring Piano Club, Transients, Dasika/Svoboda/Keller and Wave Riders), I will have my bi-monthly appearance at Uptown Jazz Cafe, a performance at the Castlemaine Jazz Festival, AND a VERY special concert devised by my dearest friend Kylie Davies - Across Silence.

    Across Silence: The Art of Music, Auslan Haptics is a collaboration the first of its kind in Australia, presented by the Newmarket Collective. Delivered in Auslan and sung by Gian Slater, Deaf artists Walter Kadiki and Marnie Kerridge perform a series of poems set to music by me.

    Walter and Marnie wear vibro-tactile haptic vests created by Music: No Impossible. Consisting of a body pack, wrist and ankle bands they allow the performers to receive vibrations across 24 touch points on the body by programmed software, to feel the instruments and music live on stage (Photos below of me and Natasha Fearnside trying the haptic vests). This has been a truly remarkable but also extremely challenging experience for me, to improvise, arrange, and compose music with specific awareness of its interpretation through vibration, as experienced by deaf and hard of hearing people. The concert is on at Tempo Rubato this Sunday (two shows, 4pm & 8pm). If you're in Melbourne, please come!

    All gig details are listed on my homepage. Hope to see you at one or more if you're in town!

    Wishing you a lovely month ahead.

    Warmest,
    Andrea

  • April 2023: Farewell Canberra, it's been awesome!

    Hello everyone,

    I am writing to you from Canberra once again. This time at the close of my HC Coombs Fellowship. I have had the most brilliant time over the last 12 months travelling here to work with staff and students – performing, recording, composing, teaching and enjoying the ANU pool/spa! I will miss these visits enormously. A massive thanks to everyone at the ANU School of Music who welcomed me and offered me their generosity - what a fantastic team! Particular thanks go to John Mackey and Miroslav Bukovsky for sharing their incredible music with me over the year. I am looking forward to releasing a selection of the music we made soon-ish...

    My brilliant friend Hayley Miro Browne created a spectacular photography collection in 2022 Echoes; Grief and Love. I am incredibly humbled that she included a photo of me in the exhibition. I highly encourage you to view the digital exhibition here.

    I'll be in Melbourne for the month of April playing Mondays at the Jazzlab and a couple of visits to Uptown Jazz Cafe with a host of sensational musicians.

    Please see the full list of gigs on my homepage. Hope to see you at one or more if you're in town!

    Wishing you a lovely month ahead.

    Warmest,
    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.

  • March 2023: Getting in the swing of the year...

    Hello everyone,

    I hope the year is treating you well!

    A brief newsletter this month - please see gigs on my homepage.

    You will find me in Brunswick a fair bit, at the Jazzlab and at Cross Street Music Hall, performing with some of my favourite people - Nick Haywood, Sam Bates, Sam Anning, Kyrie Anderson, Stephen Magnusson, Joe Talia, Jenny Barnes, Mick Meagher, and Niko Schauble.

    I'm looking forward to playing with incredible emerging musicians Tessie Overmyer and Harley Coleman (both from Sydney), and to feature the Callum Mintzis Quartet as part of the Mondays Nights at Jazzlab residency.

    The wonderful Solstice Trio are including one of my pieces, 'Flicker #1' in their concert program at FortyFiveDownstairs on Wednesday 8th March, 7:30pm. They are performing as part of the fortyfivedownstairs chamber music festival and you can find more details about that here.

    At the end of the month I'll be returning to Canberra for my final week as HC Coombs Fellow, and I'm looking forward to playing in trio with Miroslav Bukovsky and John Mackey at the ANU (check ANU School of Music events closer to the date for more details if you're interested).

    Wishing you a lovely month ahead.

    Warmest,
    Andrea

  • February 2023: Recording in Sydney, Performing in Melbourne, Peninsula Hot Springs Artist in Residency, Life is Good...

    Dear cherished supporters of creative music,

    Another month is upon us, and with it brings more experiences and opportunities for connection and betterment.

    I'm feeling very privileged to have been in Sydney last week, working on a new album that's grown out of my time as HC Coombs Fellow at ANU in Canberra. My recent Sydney stint was all about recording with Miroslav Bukovsky and John Mackey with a BRILLIANT string section led by Véronique Serret. We recorded at Trackdown Studios (they have a gorgeous Yamaha!!) with Richie Belkner at the helm, and I'm totally thrilled with the results. It will take a bit to work through all the music created and recorded in Canberra and Sydney over the last year, but I plan to have something out later in 2023.

    I'm feeling ridiculously fortunate at the moment as I'm in Mornington VIC at the Peninsula Hot Springs on a week-long residency to slow down, focus on wellness, and see what new music might come as a result. Enormous thanks to the facilitators of this program, and to my husband Mick for holding the fort at home and encouraging me to make the most of this divine opportunity!!

    Details of all my February gigs are on my homepage, including a solo concert at the Hot Springs this Saturday, where the audience bathe while taking in the sounds - a truly unique experience!

    Thanks for your support.

    Warmest,
    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.

  • January 2023: A New Year, Two New Series, and more possibilities...

    Dear cherished supporters of creative music,

    Here we are on the first day of a new calendar year. I hope you all made it through 2022 in one piece, and I extend my love, care and warmest thoughts to those grieving loss and trauma from the year that has been.

    Searching for words from the wise to carry me forward into 2023, these from Jean-Paul Sartre strike loudest for me this morning:

    There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

    Details of all my January gigs are listed on my homepage. Including a solo concert in Flinders VIC for the Peninsula Summer Music Festival, and the resumption of Mondays at the Jazzlab.

    Sending everyone positive wishes for the new year as we continue to navigate life's mountainous path.

    Warmest,
    Andrea


  • December 2022: Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival & final gigs for 2022

    Hello!

    I am writing to you from beautiful Canberra once again - my final trip for the year as part of the HC Coombs Fellowship. This week I was privileged to get in the studio at the School of Music and record with a brilliant group of ANU jazz students, as well as a session with strings, trio and voices featuring Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey, Liam Budge and Rachael Thoms!

    I am looking forward to more travel in 2023, perhaps even going over the seas...

    I can't believe we've hit the final month, although my body and spirit feel it, and the general sense of exhaustion I see in everyone around me is telling of a massive year of activity. Time for reflection will come in the new year, but for now, there is one final stretch of exciting things to experience!

    This week in Melbourne (December 4-11), the brilliant and vital Melbourne International Women's Jazz Festival will be filling our lives with music. You can check out all the wonderful events here.

    I'm thrilled to be involved in performances with Lucy Clifford (Jann Rutherford Memorial Award winner), Louisa Rankin Septet, Morgana 30th Anniversary tour, and Sandy Evans & Andrea Keller duo. As well as the Gender Defying Jazz workshop finale and the inaugural Composers Symposium (details below).

    To close the year, the final Mondays @ Jazzlab will include Five Below and Transients with Wilson/Anning/Keller, and a gig at Uptown Jazz Cafe with a slightly different Transients with Magnusson/Anning/Keller.

    Details of all December gigs can be found on my homepage.

    Thanks for supporting creative Australian music!

    Warmest,
    Andrea

  • November 2022: October wrap up & November events

    Hello!

    What a month October was!!

    The Melbourne International Jazz Festival was phenomenal!!

    Massive congrats to the MIJF team and everyone who made the festival such an inspiring and memorable event (this includes musicians and audiences )

    I’m super proud of our UniMelb Jazz & Improv students for their performances in Conjuress and Masters & Apprentices (with Melissa Aldana!!!!).

    Having Melissa Aldana as a guest artist with us in the Jazz & Improv department was a highlight - what an incredible musician and person she is. Her generosity, ideas and work ethic are truly inspirational - we hope she can come back really soon!!

    It was equally wonderful to have pianist Dan Tepfer with us. He completely blew us all away with his ideas and brilliance!

    I spent a lot of time at Chapel Off Chapel over the festival, performing with Conjuress, Morgana’s 30 year anniversary, Emma Donovan’s kids show ‘Follow The Sun’, Chris Hale’s Ritual Diamonds, and Transients with Julien Wilson and Sam Anning.

    It was a thrill to finally rehearse, premier and record a commission I’d received from the Monash Art Ensemble back in 2020 - Circuit Breaker. My piece was realised by a brilliant ensemble of Monash university students and staff conducted by Paul Grabowsky.

    Another world premier was Brenda Gifford’s new work for the Australian Art Orchestra ‘Moriyawa’, which we performed at the MRC Salon to a sold out room.

    It was a really special thing to have the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues back on in real life. I took the family and had a lovely couple of days in a country motel taste testing as many café breakfast/brunches as we could! Sadly Flora Carbo was unwell and unable to travel for the PATSy performance, but the brilliant Angela Davis stepped in and did a stellar job. It was beautiful to play with Ange, Callum and Steve in the church, and then in the theatre with the wonderful Jess Hitchcock and band. Big congrats and thanks to the Wang team (particularly Eugene Ball!) for all they did to get the festival back up and running. Here’s to many more!!

    Mondays at Jazzlab featured a superb Piano Club on Halloween with John McAll, Jex Saarelaht and Bob Sedergreen. Enormous thanks to John, Jex and Bob for the incredible music and chat, and to everyone who came down to support and create a beautiful vibe!

    November Mondays at Jazzlab will feature extraordinary emerging bassist/composer Blakely McLean Davies, presenting his music with a group of stellar young musicians, PATSy (you can read a review of our album here), a new quartet with trumpeter Paul Williamson and the Stephen Magnusson trio.

    I am off to Sydney this morning, for an extra special gig premiering new works for trio with Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey and strings at the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s exquisite new venue Pier 2/3 in Sydney (presented by SIMA for the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival). The gig is tomorrow/Thursday night.

    And then from Sydney to Perth for performances with the Sam Anning Septet, Mat Jodrell Sextet and Transients [Wilson/Anning/Keller] at the Perth International Jazz Festival over the weekend.

    Looking forward to the music, the people, and the better weather!!!

    This month also features a special concert at Beleura House, Mornington with the Dasika/Keller/Svoboda trio performing works from Kiri: a suite of music composed by Niran Dasika inspired by the ‘nihonga’ style paintings of Kaii Higashiyama which capture the beauty, drama and pathos of Japan’s natural landscapes and seasonal change. The performance will be accompanied by projected images and I will be in piano heaven playing the Stuart & Sons piano(s)

    Details of all November gigs are on my homepage.

    Thanks for supporting creative Australian music!

    Warmest,
    Andrea

  • October 2022: Festivals are BACK - Melbourne, Wangaratta, Sydney, Perth

    Hi everyone,

    I hope life is treating you well!

    I’m writing to you from Canberra once again, feeling very privileged to have these regular trips to compose, rehearse, record, and make new things courtesy of the HC Coombs Fellowship at the ANU.

    These last few months of the year are FULL of exciting events and travels. Festivals are BACK and there is lots on in October/early November!!

    Regular Monday nights @ the Jazzlab featuring PATSY, Five Below, Dasika/Svoboda/Keller, and an extra special Piano Club with three legendary musicians – Bob Sedergreen, Jex Saarelaht and John McAll!!!

    Melbourne Jazz Festival performances with:
    Morgana

    Many moons ago, when I was studying first year jazz & improvisation at the VCA (now MCM), my brilliant teacher Sue Johnson rang me, unwell, to ask me to sub for her that night with Morgana at Bennetts Lane Jazz Club. There were many firsts for me that night! I’m sure I did quite an ordinary job with the music (considering how green I was), but the band were incredibly gracious towards me, and I’ve always admired and appreciated them for it.

    I can’t wait to get a second crack at it for this gig, their 30-year anniversary, where I will, once again, be subbing for the ever-inspiring Sue Johnson. Hoping to do a better job this time around!

    The opening set will be played by Conjuress a wonderful group of female-identifying musicians studying jazz & improvisation at the MCM

    Emma Donovan’s Kids Show

    This is going to be a beautiful show! Any interaction with Emma Donovan will fill your heart – she is GOLD!!

    Christopher Hale’s ‘Ritual Diamonds’ release of his wonderful music after MANY years in the making!

    Transients [Wilson/Anning/Keller] my old but trusty favourite xx

    Monash Art Ensemble premier of ‘Circuit Breaker’

    Thrilled to be working with Paul Grabowsky and the Monash Art Ensemble, and to finally hear my work Circuit Breaker! MAE commissioned this back in 2020, but the pandemic quashed all previous attempts to realise the project. Also, on the program are works by the brilliant Cheryl Durongpisitkul and PG himself.

    Brenda Gifford and the Australian Art Orchestra a new work by Brenda for the AAO

    Wangaratta Jazz Festival

    I’m SO excited to be travelling back to Wangaratta for the Jazz Festival this year after the hiatus of the last few years – BIG thanks to everyone who has had a hand in making this legendary festival happen again!!

    I have two gigs on the Saturday – one with my pals in PATSy and the other, a new collaboration with Jess Hitchcock!

    Coming up in November: Gigs in Sydney & Perth!!

    Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival

    An extra special gig premiering new works for trio with Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey and strings at the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s exquisite new venue Pier 2/3 in Sydney

    Perth International Jazz Festival

    Performances with the Sam Anning Septet, Mat Jodrell Sextet and Transients [Wilson/Anning/Keller]

    I hope you can enjoy this wonderful festival season!

    With warmest wishes,

    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.

  • September 2022: Art Music Awards, Melbourne gigs, & more...

    Hello everyone,

    I hope your worlds are treating you well!

    I'm writing to you from Canberra, spending another wonderful week working at the ANU as part of my year as HC Coombs Fellow. We had a wonderful debut gig with the trio (Miroslav Bukovsky, John Mackey and me) at the Drill Hall Gallery on Sunday, which included stunning solo piano sets from three wonderful emerging musicians - Eliot Kozary, Caleb Campbell, and Ronan Apcar. Thank you to everyone who attended for making it such a special night, to the Drill Hall Gallery for hosting the event, and to Art Sound FM 92.7 for recording the gig (you'll be able to listen in to the broadcast before too long). Photo of the trio below, taken at Drill Hall in front of an Idris Murphy painting (photo taken by Eric Pozza).

    I am completely chuffed to have been awarded the Luminary Award for sustained contribution to Victorian music last night at the APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards. Big congrats to all the very deserving winners in all categories, and finalists too, and enormous gratitude to APRA AMCOS for all that they do for our music community!

    Details of all my September performances can be found on my homepage. A few gigs in Melbourne and then back to Canberra at the end of the month, before the plethora of festivals hit the country in October/November!

    With warmest wishes,

    Andrea

    Please check out my Bandcamp page for CD's, digital, LP's, T-shirts, and Pdf Scores.