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Quentin Bryan Angus

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Originally from country South Australia, Quentin Angus is a jazz guitarist, 23 years of age, who moved to New York in 2010 to undertake a Masters at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music, supported by a full scholarship. His guitar tutor at the Conservatory is the world renowned John Abercrombie, although, he is also working closely with John Riley, Todd Coolman, Hal Galper, Andy Laverne, Kermit Driscoll, Dave Ruffels, among many others.

While in Australia, at the University of Adelaide, Quentin completed a Cert IV (Jazz Performance), a Bachelor of Music, Honours in Music (Awarded with First Class Honours), and during this time Quentin has won numerous awards, including the ‘most outstanding jazz guitar undergraduate’ (2006), ‘most outstanding postgraduate music student’ (2009), received the inaugural directors' awards from the Conservatorium of Music for his compositional talents (2009), and is also the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Keith Michell Performance Award, from the Helpmann Academy. Quentin also holds an APA scholarship for postgraduate study and has received numerous grants from the Helpmann Academy and CARCLEW, including funding in 2009 to study in New York with Pat Martino, Gilad Hekselman, and Steve Khan. Since then, Quentin has studied with Adam Rodgers, Jonathan Kreisberg, Mike Moreno, and Randy Johnston among others.

Quentin has performed in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United States, including events such as the Adelaide International Guitar Festival, Mt Barker Jazz Festival, and the Adelaide FRINGE. He has shared the bandstand with Bob Mintzer, Wolfgang Muthspiel, James Morrison and Michelle Nichole, while being involved in various Australian music groups such as The Quentin Angus Quintet, Mr Goodnight, and The Cerberus Project, he has also appeared as a guest artist in groups such as The New Cabal. In recent years Quentin has also been involved in Musicology. This has included being invited to present his research and transcrptions of Gilad Hekselman and John Abercrombie at conferences in New Zealand and Australia which has since been published.