Alumni
At Jazz Workshop Australia, most of our students are here because they love music and want to play it well. That matters as much to us as anything else we do.
Studying jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music or another university music program is a serious ambition for many young musicians — and one we take seriously too. For those with their sights set on the conservatorium or a professional career, the pathways are real. Many JWA students have gone on to do exactly that. Many others have built careers in music without following the university route, in ways the list below makes clear.
The musicians listed here are all Jazz Workshop Australia alumni. They all took private lessons at JWA, were in our ensembles program, or both.
Jazz Workshop Australia alumni
Listed approximately most recent first.
- Jacob Jayasena (piano)
- Flynn Poppleton (trumpet)
- Henry Hall (bass)
- Tomoyuki Hachigo (bass)
- Henry Junor (bass)
- Dorby Xu (drums)
- Sam Leong (saxophone)
- Noah Mejia (saxophone)
- Olivia Dacal (voice & piano)
- Leo Marland (saxophone)
- Damon Poppleton (saxophone)
- Mitchell Minotto (drums)
- Zac Nisbett (bass)
- Chiara Minotto (saxophone & composer)
- Eric Tsai (guitar)
- Amy Fox (trumpet)
- Michelle Shih (guitar)
- Tim Doubinski (guitar)
- Thomas Odell (piano)
- Jacob Graham (bass)
- Abby Constable (drums)
- Siebe Pogson (bass)
- Alex Inman-Hislop (drums)
- Holly Conner (drums)
- Luke Hennings (drums)
- Chloe Kim (drums)
- Hilary Gedes (guitar)
- Nick Ujhazy (guitar)
- Alex Hirlian (drums)
- Oli Nelson (drums)
- Pat Kelly (piano & violin)
- Emma Stephenson (piano & vocals)
- Luke Davis (trombone)
- Jack Stoneham (saxophone)
- Ashley Stoneham (drums)
- Nick Henderson (bass)
- Shota Matsumura (trumpet)
- Deven Rahman (trumpet)
- Billy Ward (saxophone)
- Heather Prowse (trumpet)
- Michael Clarke (saxophone)
- Bec Scolnik (saxophone & clarinet)
- Oscar Peterson (bass)
- Ana Leckie (saxophone)
- Frances Madden (piano & vocals)
- Josh Spolc (bass)
- Donna Daly (trombone)
- Kali Gillen (saxophone)
- Charlie Sundborn (saxophone)
- Hugh Smart (trumpet)
- Seb Bartels (guitar)
- Matthias Vecanski (saxophone)
- Brendan Paul (drums)
- Amanda Suwando (piano)
- Will Perry (guitar)
- Daniel Willington (guitar & producer)
- Dan Maher (guitar)
- Ben Samuels (saxophone & clarinet)
- Casey Allen (bass)
- Shaun Rammers (saxophone)
- Jacques Emery (bass)
- Max Peterson (piano)
- Bobby Poulton (bass)
- Michael Solo (drums & producer)
- Adam Caton (trombone)
- Graham Bucknell (saxophone)
- Paddy Kelly (piano & violin)
- Jono Savery (saxophone & clarinet)
- Ryan O’Donnell (bass & opera)
- Mark Selim (bass & producer)
- Carlo Antonioli (saxophone & conductor)
- Sam Myers (drums & producer)
- Andrew Hemsworth (trumpet)
- Evan Harris (saxophone, flute & clarinet)
Earlier students of Saul Richardson
Before JWA opened in 2007, Saul Richardson led the jazz program at North Sydney Boys’ High School. The following students all went on to study jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music or WAAPA.
- Alex Ash (trumpet & piano)
- Alex Hone (guitar)
- Alex Solo (drums)
- Andrew Brooks (saxophone)
- Andrew Chessher (piano)
- Dale Gorfinkel (vibraphone)
- David Berry (trombone)
- Gene Taylor (bass)
- Grant Arthur (trombone, guitar & banjo)
- Jackson Harrison (piano)
- James Walsh (trombone)
- Jamie Castrisos (drums)
- Jeremy Rose (saxophone, clarinet & flute)
- Laurence Rosier Staines (guitar)
- Marty Wieczorek (clarinet & saxophone)
- Matthew Collins (trumpet)
- Mike Jardine (saxophone)
- Nick McLean (bass)
- Richard Savery (saxophone & clarinet)
- Scott Simpkins (saxophone)
- Seb McIntosh (saxophone)
- Simon Ferenci (trumpet)
- Will Gilbert (trumpet)