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Annaliesa Rose

Born: December 21, 1982

Annaliesa Rose – Singer, Musician, Composer

Annaliesa Rose (BMus (jazz) (ANU), GradDipEd (UNE), MAM (MBA equiv)(Australian Institute of Music)) is a versatile musician (vocalist) and composer who has been involved in music and the performing arts her whole life from music, drama, dance and visual arts. 

Since 1999, Annaliesa has been performing around Australia especially in Canberra and where she is from in Wollongong and more recently performing internationally in Czech Republic and the UK. 

Notable performances overseas include 2025 gig at Jazz Dock with Emil Viklický, Andy Schofield, Tomáš Hobzek, Josef Fečo, Edinburgh Jazz ‘n’ Jive gigs in 2025 and back in 2024, completing a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024 where she worked at various gigs with Daryl Wallis, David Patrick, Daniel Bulatkin and Emil Viklický, working with Emil Viklický at Františkovy Lázně and with Emil Viklický, Petr Dvorský, Tomáš Hobzek at a venue in Brno and on my latest album and singles along with Andy Schofield (to be released later this year).

Petr Studený: Listening as a Creative Act

by Nenad Georgievski
August 22, 2026

For Petr Studený, music has never been a passive background hum. Since 1979, he has operated under the self-assigned title of “active listener"--a designation that treats the intake of sound as a foundational creative act. Based in Prague, a city whose “magical" atmosphere he credits as a silent collaborator, Studený has spent decades navigating the intersections of ...

Ostrava Days 2025

by Martin Longley
September 21, 2025

Ostrava Days 2025 Ostrava, Czech Republic August 21-30 2025 Close to the beginning of this moderne music festival in the old coal-mining capital of Czechia, its Minimarathon Of Electronic Music is an inevitable highlight of each edition. Lordy knows what a full-on marathon would be like, but this mini-version is substantial enough, ...

Hayley Kavanagh Quartet At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
September 2, 2025

Hayley Kavanagh Quartet Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland August 29, 2025 “Welcome to the Upper East Side." Variations on this phrase--delivered by Scott's Jazz Club co-founder Cormac O'Kane--have greeted visitors to Belfast's award- winning jazz venue every Friday night since 2020. Hard to believe that half a decade has ...

Take Five with Singer, Guitarist and Pianist Martina Fiserova

by AAJ Staff
April 15, 2025

Meet Martina Fiserova Martina Fišerová is a New York-based singer, guitarist, songwriter and lyricist. Born and raised in Bohemia, Czech Republic, she graduated as a vocalist from the jazz-focused Jaroslav Ježek College, in addition to studying anthroposophical music therapy. She has performed alongside a number of prominent artists at music festivals and venues throughout Europe, as ...

Martina Fiserova

New York-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Martina Fišerová channels her love for jazz and authentic storytelling through her original songs, meshing harmonic sophistication with sincere, personal expression. Originally from Prague, Czech Republic, Martina has performed with many artists at jazz festivals and venues throughout Europe, as well as in Taiwan and Vietnam. After relocating to New York City in 2013 to further develop her skills, she released an album of her original music, "Shift", in 2015. She has since had the honor of performing at venues and festivals including Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center, New York's Blue Note Jazz Festival, and Prague Proms Festival, among others.

Then the Saints Came Marching In

by Tony Ozuna
March 18, 2025

"Satchmo! Pops! Mr. Louis! Mr. Armstrong!" Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash. Cameras ahead. All he could do was smile in reply, with his big grin, and keep on moving through the crowd. Behind him, his entourage followed along trepidly. The Louis Armstrong band, or in their own terms, the OJ Express: the Original Jazz ...

Two Presidents—Vaclav & Bill

by Tony Ozuna
November 25, 2024

On January 11, 1994, US President Bill Clinton was recorded live at the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague, playing sax with Czech jazz players. Czech Radio Broadcasting later released the recording of this concert on the CD titled Two Presidents' Jam Session, (Praha, 1994), with sponsorship by the Radegast brewery. Statements by Vaclav Havel in italics ...

Ostrava Days 2023

by Martin Longley
October 13, 2023

Klub Parník, Plato, Triple Hall Karolina, etc. Ostrava, Czech Republic August 28-September 2, 2023 Ostrava Days happens once every two years, mostly dedicated to the well-being of new music, composed for varying sizes of ensembles, right up to a fully-bloated orchestra. Sometimes, though, works will be penned for mere solo ...

The Jazz Historian: John Edward Hasse

by B.D. Lenz
August 17, 2023

Jazz is not simply a style of music; it is also a culture. The impact of this cultural force has had many ups and downs throughout the last century but, undeniably, has been felt worldwide across all nations and all languages. With such a storied past, it's important that an account of its beginnings and those ...