Name Sandy Evans | Role Musical Artist | |
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Albums Pack of Women, Cosmic Waves Similar John Pochee OAM, Lloyd Swanton, Bernie McGann, Miroslav Bukovsky, Allan Browne | ||
Sandy Evans with the Nexus Quartet performing at the 2013 Art Music Awards
Sandy Evans is an award-winning Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher active from 1982.
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In the 1980s Evans played in Great White Noise and formed the group Women and Children First. Later she was a member of the Sydney band Ten Part Invention.
Evans composed the music for the 1999 radio drama Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker, which showcased the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, and was broadcast on ABC's Soundstage FM.
She delivered the 10th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in 2008 and received an Order of Australia in 2010 for services to music. She has been described by ABC Radio National's "Inside Sleeve" program as Australia's leading female jazz musician. At the APRA Music Awards of 2013, her composition Meetings at the Table of Time performed by members of the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sruthi Laya Ensemble won Performance of the Year and was nominated for Work of the Year – Jazz.
In 2014 she was awarded a PhD from Macquarie University, Australia, for practice-based research in Carnatic Jazz Intercultural music. She also received a Churchill Fellowship to visit India in 2014 and began to collaborate with Aneesh Pradhan and Shubha Mudgal. She is currently a lecturer in Jazz at the University of New South Wales.
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Evans has performed on more than 30 albums. Her album When the Sky Cries Rainbows was awarded Best Independent Jazz album at the 2011 Jägermeister Independent Music Awards.