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Andrea Keller Solo Piano @ the Melbourne Recital Centre Salon, Friday 10th February 7.30-8.30pm
Performing original works and new material composed as part of her Australia Council Fellowship program, plus arrangements from her 2008 ARIA Award winning solo album 'Footprints' The Wayne Shorter Project.
31 Sturt Street, Southbank, Melbourne
$25-$35, 9699 3333
melbournerecital.com.au
Debut CD from Keller's new trio 'Three Lanes' available for sale March 2nd, 2012 through Keller's website and all good CD and digital stores
check out andreakeller.bandcamp.com for preview purchases Stand-alone extended track 'Boy' available only through digital release. See andreakeller.bandcamp.com to purchase performance by Three Lanes with string quartet
Three Lanes was formed by Melbourne based jazz pianist and composer Andrea Keller as an opportunity to create new music with two of her most admired, intriguing and broad-minded musical colleagues, Genevieve Lacey on recorders, and Joe Talia on revox B77, electronics and percussion.
Stepping outside of her usual working environment, this trio combines acoustic, electronic, prepared, improvised and composed elements, allowing the unique and distinctive contribution of each of these three celebrated Australian musicians to be given voice, while facilitating meeting points and establishing a shared language for rewarding musical communication.
This project forms part of Keller’s two-year Australia Council Fellowship program (2010-2012).
ANDREA KELLER Piano
GENEVIEVE LACEY Recorders
JOE TALIA Revox B77, electronics & percussion
Recorded October 26 & 27 2011 in studio 345 @ ABC Southbank
'Boy' the extended work composed by Keller (2011) for Three Lanes with string quartet was recorded on October 28, 2011 @ ABC Southbank, Melbourne, Australia and features:
Andrea Keller – piano
Genevieve Lacey – recorders
Joe Talia – revox B77, electronics & percussion
Cameron Hill – violin
Roger Young – violin
Helen Ireland – viola
Zoe Knighton – cello
Three Lanes will debut in live performance on March 15th at Elder Hall, Adelaide, and in Melbourne on June 1st at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
"Andrea Keller has one of Australia's most consistently interesting musical minds."
Doug Spencer, August 2007
"A prayer of thanks seems appropriate. The meeting thirteen years ago of 20 year olds Eugene Ball (trumpet), Ian Whitehurst (tenor) and Andrea Keller (piano) has grown into a musical congregation of faith that has fulfilled musch hope and given us much to love."
Roger Mitchell, Herald Sun, Sunday August 19, 2007.
"visceral, lyrical..."
Downbeat August 2007.
Andrea Keller
Composer, pianist and improviser Andrea Keller is a leading light in Australian Contemporary music. Living in Melbourne, she performs with many ensembles at the forefront of the jazz scene and receives commissions from festivals and musicians throughout Australia.
She has released many CD’s as leader winning her three Aria Awards for Best Jazz Album (2002, 2003 & 2008), 2 Bell Awards for Best Australian Contemporary Jazz Album (2003 , 2008), and was awarded the inaugural MCA/Freedman Foundation Jazz Fellowship (2001), and an Australia Council Fellowship (2010).
Current Projects:
Solo Piano (originals & other repertoire)
Tim Wilson & Andrea Keller duo (Saxophone & piano; originals by Wilson & Keller)
Eugene Ball & Andrea Keller duo (Trumpet & piano; originals & standards)
Geoff Hughes & Andrea Keller duo (Guitar & piano; originals by Hughes & Keller) Keller/Murphy/Browne (Piano, bass & drums; originals & standards)
Three Lanes Trio (Piano, recorder & percussion/electronics; originals by Keller)
The Andrea Keller Quartet (Trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano & drums; originals by Keller)
Works for contemporary big band.
"one of the most original thinkers on the Australian scene... she has the priceless ability to think outside the square."
Review of 'Angels and Rascals' by Adrian Jackson, Rhythms, August, 2005.
"Pianist Andrea Keller is a major talent on the thriving Australian scene...
Apart from being an outstanding piano player, Keller has the gift for writing totally distinctive and engaging compositions. This recording stands as a marker of just how good Australian jazz is."
Review of 'Angels and Rascals' by Bev Stapleton, AllAboutJazz.com, January, 2006.
"One of this country's most daring and fascinating composers, she produces work that bristles with surprises, a powerful blend of European lyricism with space and improvisation."
Review of 'Angels and Rascals' by Leon Gettler, The AGE, May 5, 2005.