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Catherine Menezes

Born: May 29, 1959

Cathy Menezes –Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was raised in a family of Asia's most famous musicians. She commenced playing piano at the age of 4. Her first public performance in Sri Lanka was at the age of 12, as a vocalist with her late father (Tom Menezes), setting her challenges to the world of jazz and contemporary music. She has toured extensively since, performing in Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, and USA. Her musicianship found her taking part in artistic activities from Jazz to pop including performances with American Jazz Bass player - Christian McBride. Her compositions were recorded in the USA, supported by some of the world's famous musicians such as 2014 Grammy Award winner Hussain Jiffry, Russell Ferrante (Yellow Jackets), Mike Shapiro, Oscar Seaton, Allen Hinds, Kleber Jorge, Gregory Manning, Mike Miller and many more great musicians

Erica Bramham

Born: May 6, 1984

Erica Bramham is a critically acclaimed vocalist, guitarist and composer from Melbourne, Australia. Poetic, inventive and uniquely personal, her work crosses the boundaries between jazz, traditional folk and experimental art music, showcasing her finesse as a lyricist and a captivating performance style that blends song with spoken word and extended vocal technique. In 2016 Bramham released her debut album, Twelve Moons, a song cycle that blurred the boundaries between folk and improvised music. The album was named alongside David Bowie and Vijay Iyer as one of the top ten releases of the year on All About Jazz, with critic Phil Barnes calling it "a fine record of forward looking modern vocal jazz that shows a way to make interesting, lyrically inventive improvised music” and signalling Bramham as a talent to watch. In January 2017 Erica embarked on The Song-Chain Project, an ambitious creative mission to compose, record and share a new piece of music every day for 365 days

Paul Williamson

Trumpeter, composer, educator, and researcher Dr Paul Williamson has established a reputation for producing distinctive recordings of outstanding ensemble performances. As a leader, he’s released 12 CD’s and has performed with international jazz artists at festivals and venues in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His has performed with many jazz greats, including Carla Bley, Eddie Palmieri, Tomasz Stańko, Charlie Haden, Ralph Alessi, Kenny Werner, John Abercrombie, Hermeto Pascoal, Aaron Goldberg, Django Bates, Mike Nock, Tony Gould, Nasheet Waits, Mark Helias and Linda Oh

Niko Schäuble

Born: January

Niko Schauble is an award-winning drummer, composer and audio engineer, with a practice spanning the full range of contemporary notated and improvised music. As a performer, Schauble has collaborated with many of the world’s leading jazz artists, including Arthur Blythe, Lee Konitz, Karaikudi R. Mani, Wynton Marsalis, Enrico Rava among many others. Schauble’s compositions span film and television scores, ballet, interdisciplinary works, chamber and symphonic music, with major commissions from the Australian Art Orchestra, West Australian Ballet, Radiosinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Queensland Festival and the Berlin Jazz Composers Orchestra

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Nick Freer

Born: November 25, 1973

Nick has performed throughout Australia with various jazz ensembles, including festival appearances at the Melbourne International Festival of Jazz, the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Electric Jazz Festival, the Italian International Jazz Festival and the Stonnington Jazz Festival. He has also performed in China, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Vietnam and Germany. Currently he is completing a PhD in Musicology focusing on the Post-Tonal harmony of Allan Holdsworth

John Montesante

Born: June 5, 1950

John Montesante's first musical passion is Jazz and he freelanced as a Jazz Trumpet early in his professional career in the late 1960s. As he didn't fit the Trad-Dixie mould of that time, and was always told he was "too modern", he diversified across genres - big bands, show & TV orchestras and soul music - in order to remain in employment as a professional artist. He came to national attention in Australia as a singular Jazz musician, composer and arranger in his late 20s, when he returned to tertiary jazz and music studies, including taking master-classes with American jazz greats

Firefly Soul

Born: December 25, 1963

Firefly Soul is the brand name for the musical body of work of Lenny Sharman who is a composer Vocalist multi- instrumentalist and sound producer. in the genres of Soul jazz, West Coast Blues, Groove & Electronica In a genre laden world Firefly Soul has been able to create original songs that fuse heartfelt and memorable melodies with lyrics that tap into the universal consciousness. While most of today’s music is fast becoming disposable consumer items Firefly soul retains the integrity of finely​ crafted songs that you will want to listen again and again. Some of the musical works include contributions for arrangements and songwriting from other local and international musicians which gives the music a greater variety of nuances and styles

Sarah McKenzie

After enchanting jazz fans with her 2015 Impulse! Records debut, We Could Be Lovers, Sarah McKenzie returns with the sensational follow-up, Paris in the Rain. Like before, the 28-year-old, Melbourne, Australia-born singer, pianist, composer and arranger teams with the acclaimed Brian Bacchus – who has produced classics for such stars as Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, and Gregory Porter – to deliver a gripping program of jazz classics and originals – all of which present McKenzie’s incredible musicality in glamorous glory. McKenzie moved to Paris last year after graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music

Sarah McDonald

Sarah McDonald evokes cool smoky jazz club atmosphere with expressive melifluous phrasing contrasting with rhythmic dexterity. She is a singer who has been as influenced by horn players and drummers as she has by the great vocalists. Having delved deeply into music, she draws from the greats of the history of jazz, blues and soul and selects choice standards, along with original, contemporary and more esoteric repertoire that she infuses with a soulful authenticity. Having passionately pursued music all of her life, she is a versatile and accomplished vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer with a wide range of experience in many styles which she brings to bear with a creative approach to improvisation