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Vanessa Perica
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Vanessa Perica is a composer and conductor based in Melbourne, Australia.
Upon completion of her Bachelor degree in 2003 at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, she was awarded the prestigious Bob Wyllie Scholarship for ‘Most Outstanding Graduating Jazz Student.’ Other recipients of this honour include Linda May Han Oh, Mat Jodrell, Ben Vanderwal and Troy Roberts.
Recent career highlights include both national and international recognition. She was a finalist in both the Anonimus Big Band (2018) and ‘Scrivere in Jazz’ International Composition Competitions (2020). She has also appeared at the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth International Jazz Festivals.
Vossa Jazz Festival at 52, with New Blood
by Josef Woodard
https://s3.amazonaws.com/allaboutjazz/photos/2010/9509f2e2a3547fddb4d7263cf3eb6ff5.jpg Each year around Easter, the lovely and smallish lakeside city of Voss, Norway springs to musical life for a weekend. Voss is a go-to destination for skiers flocking to the snowy slopes high above the town, and host to an extreme sports festival come summer. But the legendary Vossa Jazz festival, which staged ...
Jazz Foremothers, Women Who Impact West Coast Latin Jazz by Salsa de la Bahia, Jeffrey Gimble, Ashley Jackson Usher In Jazz Appreciation Month
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast morphs gracefully from Women's History to Jazz Appreciation Month with new releases from Salsa de la Bahia, Jeffrey Gimble and Ashley Jackson, with birthday shoutouts to Dorothy Donegan, Alberta Hunter, Jean Fineberg, Vanessa Perica, Allan Harris, Evgenia Karlafti, Christine Jensen and Tessa Souter, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see ...
Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2024
Track listing: Where Can You Be; A World Lies Waiting; Playground: 1. Copy Cat, 2. Ropes and Ladders; Murmuration and Adagio; Suite for Clarinet and String Quartet: 1. Shadows at Dawn, 2. Branches at Night, 3. Fire and Flowers, 4. Image of Mistery; Chipmunk Timmy's Funny Sunny Day; Violet; Melt; Paper; Heart of Gold; Tidal Waves; Talking; Tilting World; String Quartet #1: Movement I, Movement II, Movement III; Danca de quarto (for Sara); Two Reflections for String Quartet: 1. Sorry, 2. Not Sorry; Grey Cottage: #1 Coming Out of the Fog, #2 Shaking Peace, #3 My Deer, #4 Healing and Gratitude, #5 Dustish, #6 Jazz Hands, #7 Tax Penalty Payment Approaching.
Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions
by Angelo Leonardi
«L'idea di Synthesis--dice Ryan Truesdell presentando il progetto--è nata dalla consapevolezza che molti compositori di jazz traggono ispirazione dalla scrittura per quartetto d'archi di eminenti compositori classici come Bartok, Brahms e Ravel, e dalla necessità di trovare un modo realistico e al tempo stesso stimolante per creare musica insieme». Il giovane orchestratore, divenuto ...
Vanessa Perica: The Eye is the First Circle
by Angelo Leonardi
Il secondo album della compositrice e bandleader australiana Vanessa Perica, conferma le aspettative suscitate dall'impressionante debutto del 2020 Love Is a Temporary Madness che le ha portato numerosi riconoscimenti in patria e all'estero, con recensioni superlative della massime riviste specializzate. Entro le coordinate espressive del modern mainstream orchestrale, Vanessa mostra una scrittura avvincente, che ...
The Eye is the First Circle
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Eye is the First Circle; What a Time to Be Alive; Hill of Grace; Meet Me at Phoenix Street; Song for Cleo; Still We Rise; Love and War.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Yuhan Su, Sam Eastmond, Vanessa Perica, Chien Chien Lu & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
This time around we play with an unusual idea, alternating big band albums with albums recorded by vibraphone players. “Why?" you may ask... For no particular reason, other than the fact that we realized these tunes flow well together.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 ...
Vanessa Perica Orchestra: The Eye is the First Circle
by Barry O'Sullivan
The music on The Eye is the First Circle is undeniably outstandingly composed and arranged by Vanessa Perica. Her second outing--following Love is A Temporary Madness (Self released, 2020)--with another supersonic ensemble, it was superbly recorded at the Sing Sing East Studios in Melbourne, showcasing numerous flawlessly performed solos by some of Australia's best improvising musicians. ...
