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The 2012 Summer Festival was a blast, with gigs for kids, hipsters, outdoors and indoors, workshops, and we gave away an amazing recording prize to the amazing Alcohotlicks.
Now we're settling in for the regular years programming, over the next few months you can catch Bernie McGann, Daryl Pratt, Brendan Clarke with Craig Scott, Mike Rivett and Mike Nock. Dive in!
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About the Jazzgroove Committee
The Jazzgroove committee is primarily comprised of local practicing musicians who are all involved in the composition and performance of jazz-related music.
The committee is made up of Jazzgroove members, and these people are involved in the decision-making and planning for the Association. The committee meets approximately every six weeks, and assists with the application for and administering of government grants from The Australia Council and Arts NSW. The committee are nominated and voted in by the membership each year at the Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting takes place within 6 months of the annual audit. Members of Jazzgroove are strongly encouraged to attend the meeting, and AGM papers are sent by post 21 days before the meeting as required by the Department of Fair Trading.
Details of the AGM are available on request. You must be a Jazzgroove Member in order to nominate and vote for positions on the committee.
2010-11 Jazzgroove committee members:
John Hibbard: President
Matt McMahon: Vice President
James Loughnan: Co-Artistic Director
Dave De Vries: Co-Artistic Director
Andrew Woods: Treasurer
Alison Flett: Secretary
Matt Ottignon: Ordinary Committee member
Simon Ferenci: Ordinary Committee member
Jess Green: Ordinary Committee member
Staff:
Kerri Glasscock, General Manager and Festival Co-Ordinator
Kerri has been the General Manager of Jazzgroove since 2008. She has worked in the Sydney arts sector for 11 years, working as an administrator for the Newtown Entertainment Precinct Association, The Seymour Centre, The Sound Lounge. In addition to this she founded 505 in 2004 and is now the Co-Director of the full time music space Venue 505 and the performance space Old 505 Theatre.
Sonia Tsai, Book-keeper
Sonia Tsai was employed as the Administrator of Jazzgroove Association from 2004 to 2005, and has worked with jazz band Judy Campbell's Mosaicc assisting with booking, marketing and publicity for the 2007 and 2008 tours. She has also worked in event coordination roles within the performing arts and events management sectors since 2000.
Chris Ruhle, Publicist
Chris Ruhle has been involved in the music scene for the past thirty years as a promoter, publicist, festival organizer and club booker. He has also written extensively for magazines such as On The Street, Drum and Fine Music as well as presenting weekly radio programmes on 2MBS-FM and FBi.
Committee Bios:
Alison Flett
hails from regional South Australia where she grew up performing with and for community choirs, local eisteddfods and events. She has studied at the Adelaide Elder School of Music and at the Australian National University under the tuition of jazz greats such as Vince Jones and Kristin Berardi. In 2008 she was a vocal finalist in James Morrison’s Generations in Jazz Vocal Scholarship and since moving to Sydney has performed for the Rugby World Cup and with the likes of Mahalia Barnes, David Campbell and Darren Percival. Ever the energetic kid, as a new member she is excited to get her jazzgroove on and support live music!
David de Vries
was born in 1982 and took up the guitar at the age of fourteen. He enrolled at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004 and was awarded the Patricia Bell grant for achieving the highest audition mark. David graduated in 2008 with first class honours completing his final thesis on the compositional development of early avant-guarde jazz pioneer Jimmy Giuffre. He has performed with James Morrison, The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, Craig Scott, Judy Bailey, Jonathon Zwartz and Virna Sanzone. David was a finalist in the prestigious Wangaratta jazz competition in 2007.
Matt McMahon
and a founding Committee member (1998). Matt is a professional musician (piano and keyboards) and composer. Matt has recently won the 2005 Freedman Fellowship award. He is musical director for Vince Jones, leads his own groups and is co-leader of Band of Five Names. He has played with/plays with the likes of: Bobby Previte, Phil Slater, Baecastuff, Sandy Evans, Dale Barlow, Guy Strazzullo, Steve Hunter and Dave Panichi. He won the National Jazz Award at the 1999 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and is also a radio presenter and Board Member of Eastside Radio (89.7 FM), Sydney.
Matt Ottignon
Matt is a saxophonist who has been described as having a classic tenor sound as wide as a double-frontage terrace. He has appeared on the recordings of Katie Noonan, Jackie Orszazcky, and Blue King Brown and has appeared on stage with international legends Lou Reed and Brian Wilson. Ever since moving to Sydney from his hometown of Auckland NZ, Matthew has been in demand for his ability to add something special to bands, dj’s and recording artists from all over the world, in particular having spent some time with jazz master Mike Nock. His skills as a multi instrumentalist have cemented him a position in triple aria winning band Monsieur Camembert. His own jazz trio project ‘Informal Troupe’ released their debut album in 2007 to critical acclaim.
John Hibbard
John Hibbard, trombonist and composer, studied jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, in 2001 representing the institution at the International Association of Jazz Schools conference in Boston USA. Since graduating in 2002, John has worked in a wide range of musical genres, including King Curly, Michael Lira's Darth Vegas, the Tango Saloon, Zoe and the Buttercups and Jess Green Septet. While studying he collaborated with fellow students to form Sidecar, and released the album Dreams of the Middle Class in early 2005, featuring many of John's compositions. He performs regularly with the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, and has contributed four bombastic compositions so far. John's arrangement of Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven was featured on the 2006 recording The Mothership Plays the Music of Mike Nock. He has also written for and performed in Invisible City, a composers collective of many horns and reckless abandon. In 2006 John joined Wollongong's Circus Monoxide, touring regional NSW. He has appeared at the Woodford Folk Festival, twice with Darth Vegas, in 2005 accompanying the acrobats of Top Chick Management, and in 2006 with King Curly. In 2008, John was delighted to bring the music of the Sousaphonics to audiences large and small on behalf of Musica Viva in Schools.
Andrew Woods
Andrew has been Treasurer since mid 2003, has been involved with Jazzgroove for the past six years, initially as bookkeeper. In 2002, he graduated from Sydney’s UTS with a Business Degree (Finance, Marketing) and has founded and operated several businesses since 1998 in the capacities of Book Keeper, Management Accountant and Financial Controller. Andrew currently works as the Accountant for a city law firm, two Mortgage Broking organisations, a roof construction company and various not-for-profit organisations.
James Loughlan
James is a saxophonist working within the Sydney music scene. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium Bachelor of Jazz Studies, James writes for and plays with the Girth quartet, has collaborated with many of Sydney's finest musicians, and has played at music festivals clubs around Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany. James also regularly records and performs with various pop, soul, rock and hip hop acts including Andy Bull, Kid Confucious, Gelbison, and the Ray Mann Three. James is a new addition to the Jazzgroove Committee, and is extremely honoured and excited to be involved in such a worthwhile and influential organisation.
Simon Ferenci
The newest Committee member. Simon was in our mentoring program until joining the committee in 2011. A Sydney based trumpeter, In 2003 at the age of 20 he was a finalist in the National Jazz Awards at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and in 2004 completed a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He leads the Simon Ferenci Quartet and also appears in The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, The Green Septet, The Beautiful Girls, The Herd, Watussi.
Jess Green
Previously Label Manager for Jazzgroove Records she returned to the committee in 2011. Jess is a guitarist, composer & vocalist and was born and raised in Canberra where she completed BA Mus (Hons1) in Jazz Studies at the Canberra School of Music.
[just a few of the] Former Jazzgroove committee members:
Carl Dewhurst
Anna Riddel
Caroline Davis
Simon Barker
Cameron Undy
Matt Keegan
Tim Stocker
Jamie Cameron
Lucian McGuiness
Alex Masso
Jess Green
Judy Campbell
Cameron Deyell
Murray Jackson
Evan Mannell
Zoe Hauptmann
Gerard Masters
Mark Harris
Dale Gorfinkel
Ross Ogden
Joanne Kee
Sean Wayland
Dave Theak
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