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Each year an outstanding advocate of Australian music is invited to deliver an address which, in the spirit of the great Australian Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, challenges the status quo and raises issues of importance in the world of today’s music.

Sandy Evans is an internationally renowned saxophonist and composer with a passion for improvisation and new music. Much of Sandy’s work combines her background as a jazz musician with new ideas from other areas of music. She leads the Sandy Evans Trio, and co-leads GEST8 and Clarion Fracture Zone. She performs with Ten Part Invention, austraLYSIS, The Australian Art Orchestra, The catholics, Kim Sanders and Friends, SNAP, Waratah and MARA!. Sandy has a growing interest in Indian classical music, inspired by tours to India with a group from the Australian Art Orchestra led by Adrian Sherriff, collaborating with South Indian drum maestro Guru Karaikudi Mani.

Sandy has won many awards including the Inaugural Bell Award For Australian Jazz Musician of The Year 2003, a Young Australian Creative Fellowship, APRA Award for Jazz Composition of the Year, 2 Mo Awards and three ARIA Awards.

Sandy has written music for dance, theatre and film. Major works include Testimony about the life and music of Charlie Parker with poetry by the Pulitzer prize winning American poet Yusef Komunyakaa and her most recent work, The Beatitudes, for Children’s Choir, and a 25 piece ensemble of young musicians. Sandy is a dedicated teacher and is the director of SIMA’s Jazz Improvisation Workshops For Young Women.


10th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
presented by Sandy Evans

Date: 6pm Monday 1 December 2008
Where: THE MINT, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney
Bookings: (02) 8239 2211
Enquiries: Philippa Horn @ NMN 0411 606 077
Free event, bookings essential.