Inspired by the Tiny Desk concert series, "Off The Record" is a series of live recordings produced by Rue Arts.
Kristin Berardi
Kristin Berardi is a creative musician, composer and educator and is passionate about sharing music. Kristin is one of the first calls in Australia when it comes to Jazz vocals, however she works consistently in the contemporary music field outside jazz and into the experimental field. Her accolades include winning the Montreux Jazz Festival's International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2006, supporting Al Jarreau and George Benson at Montreux Jazz Festival 2007, and winning the National Freedman Fellowship (one recipiant for jazz and classical per year. Berardi is the only vocalist to have received one for Jazz)
Helen Svoboda
As an ‘indispensible part of the Brisbane jazz, improvised and experimental music scenes’, Svoboda has performed with artists including Joe Chindamo, Emma Pask, Erik Griswold, Kristin Berardi, Katie Noonan, Cory Smythe, Sebastian Gramss, Tamara Lukasheva and Mike Roelofs. She has performed at venues including the Brisbane Powerhouse, Jazzlab (Melbourne), Stadtgarten (Cologne), Bonnefantenmuseum (Maastricht) and MONA (Museum of Old and New Art - Tasmania) and at festivals including the Queensland Music Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Unknown Orbits Festival (Maastricht), Hasselt Jazz Festival (Belgium) and Clocked Out’s Easter @ The Piano Mill (Stanthorpe). Last year she attended the renowned BANFF International Workshop for Creative and Improvised Music (2019) under the mentorship of Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer and Okkyung Lee, and was recently awarded the 2019 QLD Jazz Award with ‘The Biology of Plants’ as well as both the 2020 Maastricht Jazz Awards and the 2019 Maastricht Award for Innovation in Music with MEATSHELL for their debut immersive theatre production “Peaceful Co-existence” which the duo wrote, produced and performed in.
MUSICIANS
Kristin Berardi
Helen Svoboda
CREDITS
Video: Daniel Lopez, Julian Palma, Eleanor Streatfeild
Audio: Julian Palma
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