Trish Delaney-Brown Quintet Concert

DATE: Saturday 4 May 2024
TIMES: Bar open from 6pm, Concert 7-9:30pm (includes interval)
COST: $45 full / $38 concession
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WORSKHOP: 10am – 12 pm Saturday 4 May
COST: $35 / $25 concession
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It’s been over 10 years since Trish hung up her ‘Idea of North’ acappella hat. During her 15 years with Canberra’s ARIA-winning group, her song-writing was well utilized, and her efforts garnered several prestige awards.

These days, Trish has returned to what she loves best – a small, tight ensemble performing original material and arrangements of favourite jazz standards in which the voice functions both as storyteller, and as an additional instrument, wordless and blended.

Along with her duties as Head of Vocals, at Wollongong Conservatorium, Trish continues to perform and record. Her 2017 album, The Game, (ABC Jazz Digital) was shortlisted for a 2018 ARIA “Best Jazz Album “and her latest EP of original material is due for release in early 2024, hot on the heels of the debut EP for her vocal trio LYHRA.

For the upcoming concert, Trish will be singing songs from her 2017 ARIA shortlisted album The Game as well as favourite jazz standards and newer compositions, including songs from the upcoming EP.

Master class: Performance Magic – Behind the Curtain
Building authenticity and confidence in performance.

Come behind the curtain with award winning songwriter and performer Trish Delaney-Brown as she unpacks how to find your authentic voice, make friends with vulnerability, build connection with your audience and free your artistic expression.

• Do you love to sing, but have no idea how to stand in front of a crowd and perform?
• Would you like to feel confident with your sound and performance style?
• Do you have some technical challenges that frustrate your performance? Would you like to connect emotionally with the material on a deeper level?
• Do you struggle to connect with your audience?
• Or are you just interested in the creative process of putting a successful performance together?

With practical exercises and valuable information to help tackle the challenges of performing, this workshop will explore ways of increasing your confidence, authenticity and creativity in performance. There will also be the opportunity for a small number of attendees to perform and receive feedback from a highly respected and experienced performer and vocal coach.

Masterclass participants will need to self accompany or bring backing track. When you register please indicate the song you would like to sing, and previous experience. Limited places available.

Register for the Masterclass here.

Quartet Band Members:

Greg Coffin (piano)
Well known in Sydney as one of ‘the’ piano players to watch, Greg brings a wealth of musicality with him every time he sits at the piano. As a key contemporary staff member and an academic lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music, Greg is passionate about sharing his vast experience with and supporting students through their musical journey. Greg balances his teaching roles with a performing and recording schedule that reflects his stature as one of the most distinctive and well-respected pianists on the contemporary and jazz scene today. ‘’Coffin’s solos are marvels of rhythmic-infused melody lines, scattered with semiquavers, stringent grooves, and huge harmonic concepts.” The Australian

Jeremy Sawkins (electric guitar)
Sydney-based guitarist Jeremy Sawkins has been an active member of the Australian music community since the late 1970’s. As well as being a composer/bandleader, Jeremy has shared the stage and recording studios with many notable musicians. Having performed all around Australia, he has also performed in Europe and Asia with his own ensembles and other artists including Jack Orszacsky, Tina Harrod, Tom Burlinson, Grace Knight, Darren Percival, Nicky Crayson, Lily Dior, Wendy Matthews, Trish Delaney-Brown, Katie Noonan, Alister Spence, Matt McMahon, Lloyd Swanton, Craig Scott, Bernie McGann, Jim Kelly, James Muller, Paul McNamara, Phil Wilson (U.S.A.) James and John Morrison, John Foreman, Don Burrows, Monica Trapaga, Dominic Miller and Ira Coleman (both from Sting’s band) and Steve Hunter to name but a few.

Karl Dunnicliff (bass)
Since graduating from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he studied with world acclaimed bassist Craig Scott, Karl Dunnicliff has been highly in demand as a double and electric bass player. Over the years he has also studied with Rufus Reid, Andrew Dickeson, Judy Bailey and Mike Nock. He is touring regularly as bassist for the Vince Jones band. In 2008 he was selected as a finalist in the National Jazz Awards for double bass at Wangaratta, the largest annual jazz festival in Australia and he regularly supports some of Australia’s best known musicians including James Morrison and Dale Barlow. He currently plays with Kevin Hunt Trio, John Morrison Band, Alex Silver’s SNAFU, Mark Ginsburg and many more.

Nic Cecire (drums)
Nic’s jazz credits include jazz vocalists (Tina Harrod, Lily Dior, Trish Delaney Brown, and more) as well as jazz bands the Catholics, Mike Nock, Greg Coffin Trio, Darren Heinrich Trio, Jeremy Sawkins, Adam Miller, and many others. His work in pop and rock includes playing with headlining artists such as Wendy Mathews, The Whitlams, Jenny Morris, Boy George/Culture Club, Glenn Shorrock, Grace Knight, Rhonda Burchmore and Christine Anu. He has also performed on a number of movie and TV soundtracks including David Wenham’s Ellipsis (music by Megan Washington), Chocolate Oyster and The Great Mint Swindle (score by Jim Mogine of Midnight Oil). P.S if he looks familiar but you can’t quite place him… Nic is also Tom Tom in the hugely successful children’s program Lah Lah’s Big Live Band!

PAST PERFORMANCES

Jazz Haus: The Chris Cody Quartet

Internationally recognised jazz pianist and composer Chris Cody has thrilled audiences at festivals and venues around the world from New York to Zanzibar, working with jazz greats Roy Hargrove, Herb Geller, Rhoda Scott, Lisa Simone, Brice Wassy, and Miles Davis alumni Rick Margitza along the way.

In a career spanning 30 plus years, Cody has headlined numerous international festivals including Paris Quartiers d’Eté London, Rome, Brussels Jazz Marathon, Stockholm, Munich, Marciac, Geneva, Ascona, Derry, Dar Es Salaam and Algiers and a vast array of concert venues throughout the USA, Europe, Africa and Australasia, from the Village Gate NYC to the Munich Staatsoper. 

His upcoming gig at Tuggeranong Arts Centre on Saturday 24 February will see Cody play for Canberra audiences for the first time. He will be joined by Max Alduca on double bass, Mike Avgenicos on Sax and James Waples on drums. The quartet will perform a collection of favourites from Cody’s huge jazz catalogue, and compositions from his recently released album, “The Outsider.”

Featuring exciting new music infused with infectious African and Middle Eastern grooves and motifs, Cody’s highly anticipated album spans multiple genres, including blues, gospel and jazz, film noir ballads and wild swing. Inspired by the work of French writer and philosopher Albert Camus, Codys’ many years living in Paris, and the COVID experience, the album features compositions exploring themes of identity and purpose. Like Camus, Chris wanted the response to be one of courage, action, and joy, and intended for the music to reflect this. Regarding it as his finest musical project to date, Cody describes it as a joyous life-affirming response to adversity, music of beauty and hope.

Album Reviews:

“Free flowing, inspired, high revving, hugely evocative, elegantly layered, wonderfully lithe and sinewy, elegiac musing, rampant lyricism, opulent ensemble harmonies, mix of longing and nostalgia, compositional sophistication…his finest album.” SMH The Outsider 2022

The more ambitious the project the more Chris Cody rises in stature… 
rhythmically shape-shifting…creative… thrilling” 4 stars Sydney Morning Herald 

The band features some of Australia’s finest world music and jazz musicians with rising tenor sax sensation Michael Avgenicos, and a burning rhythm section with bassist Max Alduca, and thrilling drummer James”Pug” Waples.

“Heart and soul has audience enthralled.” – Sydney Morning Herald

“Full of music and talent.” – Le Monde, France

“Infectious… excellent improvisations that stand out…a stellar line-up…One of the album’s highlights is the title track, a thoughtful and ruminative ballad which lingers in one’s imagination” 5 stars , Eric Myers – The Australian

“ The Outsider is rich in numerous music traditions, from African to Middle Eastern along with jazz and blues … a vibrant, musically diverse experience” – City Hub

La Goutte d’Or, live at Mary’s Underground