Contributor
Judy Bailey
Composer, Jazz Composer, Performer
Biography
Pianist, composer, arranger and educator Judy Bailey is constantly involved in a wide and varied range of musical activities. She teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and is Musical Director of the Sydney Youth Jazz Ensemble. She has amassed performances both as soloist and member of various ensembles featuring local and overseas artists and has toured extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia for Musica Viva. She has won awards for her music including the APRA Award for Jazz Composition and the Australian Entertainment Industry “MO” Award for Female Jazz Performer. She has been a member of the Music board of the Australia Council and is a committee member of the Jazz Co-ordination Association of NSW. In 2014 she was inducted into the Graeme Bell Jazz Hall of Fame by Jazz Australia
A long and diverse career has given Bailey the experience to successfully develop the composition and orchestration skills necessary to extend from previous small ensemble and jazz big band writing to larger orchestral works.
Her recent compositional output has included New Orleans Second Line for Jazz combo (2008), So Many Rivers commissioned and premièred by NZTrio (2010), and Another Journey for big band and symphony orchestra (2012).