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Category: Award finalists

Award finalists, News Posted on23 October 202025 October 2020

Helen Svoboda is the Winner of the 2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship

Helen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist, composer, improviser and nature enthusiast. “With a deep awareness of extra musical concepts that shape inventive improvisation, and great art” (Steve Newcomb, AUS), Helen draws influence from vegetables, flowers and the genres of minimalist neo-classical music, folk and experimental jazz.

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Award finalists, News Posted on11 September 202018 September 2020

2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship finalists announced

After a search for Australia’s most promising young jazz artist, The Music Trusts 2020 Freedman Jazz Fellowship finalists are Niran Dasika (trumpet), Jacques Emery (double bass), Rafael Jerjen (double bass) and Helen Svoboda (double bass)

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Award finalists, News Posted on8 September 202019 September 2020

Winners of the 2020 Art Music Awards Announced

Linda May Han Oh continued Western Australia’s strong performance by taking home the Art Music Award for Work of the Year: Jazz for her ‘Aventurine’

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Award finalists, News Posted on25 September 201917 October 2019

The 2019 Australian Jazz Bell Awards winners

The 17th annual Australian Jazz Bell Awards acknowledged and applauded excellence of creativity, recording, performance and presentation of jazz in Australia.

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Award finalists, Interviews Posted on25 October 201825 October 2018

Hannah McKittrick wants you to love ostinato as much as she does

“I’ve always been someone who gets goosebumps and shivers easily when things affect me, and I can remember vocal harmonies affecting me in this physical way from very early on. From there, it has always been part of my life, and I am comforted to think that whatever happens, it will stay there for me”

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Award finalists, News Posted on8 May 20188 May 2018

Ready for the 2018 Australian Jazz Bell Awards?

Genius pianist Barney McAll dominates the shortlist, being featured in four categories with his visceral masterpiece, ‘Hearing the Blood’, while brilliant newcomer saxophonist Evan Harris follows with three nominations, each representing a different generation of Australian jazz.

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Award finalists, Interviews Posted on24 December 20179 August 2020

James Macaulay: ‘The charm of the trombone is in its mystery’

“My idea of excellence is something which takes incredible patience and great care. A master craftsman doesn’t get bored of their craft, but rather finds more depth in it over time. I can’t remember where it is from, but I think it’s a Nietzschean aphorism – ‘seriousness is a child at play’, which I think is important too.”

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Award finalists, News Posted on23 August 201723 August 2017

Jazz excellence honoured at the 2017 Art Music Awards

Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Tom OHalloran has received the Jazz Work of the Year award for Now Noise, an album composed for his group Memory of Elements (Moe), at the 2017 Art Music Awards

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Award finalists, News Posted on4 August 201717 September 2021

John Pochee to receive Distinguished Services to Australian Music honour

Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader John Pochee OAM will receive the Distinguished Services to AustralianMusic honour at the 2017 Art Music Awards on Tuesday 22 August.

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Award finalists, News Posted on25 April 2017

Scott McConnachie gets the first the Moreland City Band Improvisation and New Music Award

The inaugural recipient of the award is the talented saxophonist Scott McConnachie. It will enable him to record a solo album and trio album for release later this year.

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