OLLIE BECKER / PAOLO PERUZZI / SOFIA CARBONARA / FLORA CARBO + NIRAN DASIKA
THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2024 8pm
SET ONE: Niran Dasika, trumpet, electronics
SET TWO: Melbourne based artists Flora Carbo (Saxophone, AUS) and Sofia Carbonara (vibraphone, AUS/USA) perform alongside international guests Paolo Peruzzi (vibraphone, ITALY) and Ollie Becker (guitar, USA)
TICKETS $30 | $25
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Niran Dasika is a Melbourne based trumpeter whose work encompasses jazz, free improvisation and electronic music. Niran’s live solo performances augments his distinctive, etherial trumpet sound with delay, looping and live processing to create mesmeric, hypnotic patterns underneath his lyrical trumpet playing. Niran’s recent releases “Endless Spring, Infinite Summer” and “Assorted Drone Music Vol. 1-3” have explored an expanding sonic world of synthesisers, drum machines and lo-fi electronica.
https://www.niran-dasika.com/
@nirantrumpet
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Ollie Becker (formerly Olivia W-B) is a composer, guitarist, and vocalist based out of Boston, MA. Current projects include: vocals in noise rock band Rong; composing for chamber groups including a recent commission for Subject to Change: New Works for Violin Duo, a project of the Magari Ensemble; composing and leading Premium Velvet Headache Pillow, an ensemble that combines influences from new music, experimental metal and free jazz; and solo guitar. In spring 2024 they were awarded a Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, and in summer 2024 they participated in the Jazz and Sonic Arts residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. From 2021 to 2023 they helped organize the experimental music and art series FIND OUT in Jamaica Plain, MA. In 2021 they served as the Artistic Director of the Anarchestra Foundation, running interactive exhibits at two arts spaces in Greenfield, MA. Since fall 2023 they have been assisting at New Alliance Audio in Somerville, MA.
https://olliebecker.net/
https://linktr.ee/olliebecker
@p_v_h_p
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In the words of the NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington, paolo peruzzi (b1994 in Verona, Italy) is an artist “with the curious and inquisitive nature to push the genre forward”. Kris Davis describes paolo as “extraordinarily talented, hardworking, curious”. After graduating in 2019 at the Arrigo Pedrollo Music Conservatory (Vicenza, Italy), paolo went on to pursue a performance diploma at the Berklee College of Music (’23 graduate). paolo has been part of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, whose mission is to support and sustain a cultural transformation in jazz, with the commitment to recruit, teach, mentor, and advocate for musicians seeking to study or perform jazz, with gender justice and racial justice as guiding principles. Founder in 2015 of the multi-awarded chamber percussion ensemble ‘Palladrum’, paolo is the awardee at the first ‘Tomorrow’s Jazz’ competition, presented by Veneto Jazz in conjunction with the Veneto Jazz Festival, and the 2024 Banff Centre Artists’ Award.
https://paoloperuzzi.com/
@paoloperuzzimusic
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Sofia Carbonara is a percussionist and performance maker based in Melbourne, Australia. They design collaborative, interdisciplinary works with artists in their community, including their mixed-chamber ensemble Virago, which have been presented by the Detroit Institute of Art, Great Lakes Chambers Music Festival, and University Music Society (UMS). Solo work includes Sofia’s debut EP for solo vibraphone, On Names (Alien Passengers records, 2023) and their short film Flight (2022) with Matt Lima Films which interweaves their father discussing pleasure, culture, addiction, and a reoccurring dream of flying with Sofia’s own music and actions. Sofia is a Ludwig-Musser Australia endorsed artist, is the Australian Art Orchestra 23/24 Pathfinder Associate Artist, and is pursuing graduate research in Jazz and Improvisation at the University of Melbourne. Sofia is an Ecuadorian/Venezuelan American of Italian/German/Swiss descent born and raised in Buffalo, New York.
https://www.sofiacarbonara.com/sofia
@sofia.carbonara
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Flora Carbo is a saxophonist, composer and music leader from Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Her unique practice creates novel musical environments that connect people through improvisation, composition and conceptual works, led by her explorations into the vocal qualities of the alto saxophone. Her work traverses settings, methods and scales, with works devised for major festival stages at Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Phoenix Central Park’s Strata Festival, Amersfoort Jazz Festival, and alongside luminaries of Australian jazz and improvised music like Barney McAll and Andrea Keller. Flora’s recorded projects are acclaimed documents of moments in this scene including MAGNIFY (2023); Arthur’s Walks (2022); VOICE (2020); and Erica (2018). Her bands include The Rest Is Silence; Flora Carbo Trio; and Ecosystem. Increasingly recognised as a composer, Flora’s significant commissions and premieres include Momentually with Theo Carbo at the 2023 Canberra International Music Festival; the SIMA Emerging Composers Commission 2022; Flora Carbo Percussion Ensemble for quartets of adaptable instrumentation at 2023 Strata Festival; and Ecosystem for three voices and three saxophones at the 2022 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Flora was the Melbourne International Jazz Festival’s Take Note Leader for 2022. She was a finalist for the Freedman Jazz Fellowships 2022 and 2021; for the Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2019 Australian Jazz Bell Awards; and for the 2016 National Jazz Award; and won the James Morrison Scholarship at the Generations in Jazz Festival in 2017.