June 9-11 our Junior combo performed in the Merimbula Jazz Festival. Merimbula is on the far south coast of NSW, and the festival is one of the longest-running in Australia. We have sent groups there before but this is the first time we have showcased our youngest jazz players there. The musicians in the combo […]
Hi there, it’s been a while since we got a chance to post anything here, so a quick update is probably in order. At the end of 2015 six students from our program got full-time places in the very competitive jazz course at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (University of Sydney) with a seventh getting into the […]
Here are some of our alumni. This is only the people who’ve gone on to do jazz at university or professionally, not the countless others who learnt a lot and found pleasure in playing music. Those things are very important too. Have we missed you? Let us know. Recent alumni: JWA students who successfully auditioned for […]
Do you play an instrument? Would you or your child age 8+ like to join a jazz band where you: a) play great music? b) learn how to improvise? c) learn the ways of jazz? d) play with other like-minded, enthusiastic and talented musicians? e) progress through a program with one of the best track […]
The JWA Big Band is on tour during January to the USA and Barbados. Big Band tour day 5: Recording Today it was into the studio to record band for a CD. Most of us took the subway from the Holiday Inn to the studio in Brooklyn where we would spend the day working with […]
In 2012 we at Jazz Workshop Australia started offering formal examinations in jazz performance for our students. Now, after a few terms of hard work, the first students are now starting to sit for their exams. The very first to sit an exam was trumpet student Paddy Nicols. We are delighted to report that Paddy rose to […]
After four years with the JWA faculty Greg Burgett, one of our piano teachers, is moving on to take up a full time classroom music teaching position. This has been a long-term ambition of his, and he has been doing post-graduate study over the last couple of years. Greg has been a terrific teacher with […]
Saul Richardson (JWA Principal, guitar/bass/combo teacher & SYJO chief conductor) successfully completed the Sri Chinmoy Australian 24 hour track championships race over the weekend, Saturday June 23 – Sunday June 24. He walked a total of 128.856 km in 24 hours at Blacktown International Sportspark, where overnight temperature dropped as low as minus 3 ° […]
Here is a clip of the 2012 tour band performing at the Frank Collymore Hall in Bridgetown, Barbados in January this year. The tune is Flight Of the Foo Birds by Neal Hefti. Soloists are Tyaan Singh (alto), Scott Temby (tumpet), Jono Savery (tenor) and Jamie Bullman (drums).
JWA trumpet teacher Ellen Kirkwood is the 2012 winner of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Congratulations Ellen! The Jann Rutherford Memorial Award was founded in 2005 to assist in the professional development of an outstanding young female Australian jazz musician. The Award is named in honour of the late jazz pianist Jann Rutherford, and is […]
