Q: Lucy Clifford, what’s the story behind your debut album, Between Spaces of Knowing?

“The album is dedicated to this idea of finding presence, and listening to one’s honest self, a process that exists most powerfully between all the motion and all the thoughts.”

Sonja Horbelt: ‘Everyone in Kennedy Snow inspires me’

“I’m a big fan of electronic music and electronic pop, and I feel the Kennedy Snow music is headed in a very textural direction, with improvisation being probably the strongest jazz element present, rather than traditional jazz harmony or the swing aspect. But then again, jazz these days can be so many things that I struggle to label it as ‘jazz’, just that all the members have a jazz background.”

Sonja Horbelt: ‘the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival aims to feature role models for female student musicians’

“We’re seeing more women artists in jazz, but perhaps not at the rate we’re expecting. I think one of the biggest challenges is to encourage young players to pursue music at a tertiary level and beyond.”