Judy Bailey is distinguished

Judy Bailey accepts her award for Distinguished Services to Music at the APRA and Australian Music Centre hosted awards evening.

Judy conducts her 'Jazz Connection' at the Awards.

Judy Bailey, ex-pat New Zealander and Australian jazz pioneer, received the award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music in the 2008 Australian Classical Music Awards. The Awards were presented by APRA and the Australian Music Centre, at The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House in July.

 

This prestigious award recognises her enormous contribution to Australian new music through her role as a mentor, composer and educator. A brilliant musician and musical director, Judy has played an instrumental role in the development of contemporary jazz in Australia and the fusion of the classical and jazz genres.

 A founding teacher in jazz studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music – where she still teaches today – and Musical Director of the Sydney Youth Jazz Ensemble, Judy is a passionate and active member of the Australian new music community. Judy Bailey’s Jazz Connection is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the provision of high quality education and training in jazz for youth, ensuring that the craft of musical improvisation is alive and well in a whole new generation of musicians. Honouring their mentor, Jazz Connection performed two of Judy’s compositions to close the Awards ceremony.

— courtesy of the Australian Music Centre's e-newsletter Resonate.

  

You can find out more about Judy and her music here, on the SOUNZ website .