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Steve Barry (musician)

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Steve Barry
BornNew Zealand
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Pianist, composer
Websitewww.stevebarrymusic.com

Steve Barry is a New Zealand born jazz pianist and composer. He is the Program Leader for Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney.[1] His album In the Waves with USA drummer Eric Harland received favourable coverage in the UK jazz magazine Jazzwise where Barry's music was described as "steeped in the harmonic rigours and free-flowing discipline of well-executed contemporary narrative jazz".[2] He has also received positive notice at Australianjazz.net[3] and in the Sydney Morning Herald, which praised In the Waves as “...the finest instalment to date of the pianist’s bristling musical intelligence, rhythmic mutability, melodic flair and compositional gifts.”[4]

Discography

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Title Details
Self-titled

Released: 2012

Orbiturtle: Sakura

Released: 2015

Blueprints & Vignettes

Released: 2018

Hatch

Released: 2018

Orbiturtle: Joganji

Released: 2018

Polyglot: Talk, Vol. 1

Released: 2020

Green Thumbs

Released: 2021

In the Waves

Released: 2023

Awards and nominations

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Australian Jazz Bell Awards

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The Australian Jazz Bell Awards acknowledge excellence in Australian Jazz.[5]

Year Category Result Ref.
2013 Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year Won [6]

APRA Professional Development Award

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The APRA Professional Development Awards provide support to emerging songwriters and composers.[7]

Year Category Result Ref.
2021 Jazz/Improvised Music Won [8]

References

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  1. ^ "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney.
  2. ^ "Steve Barry: In The Waves". Jazzwise.
  3. ^ Fotakis, AuthorNikolas (26 February 2018). "Steve Barry: "My music is a broad canvas traversing between schematics and watercolours"". AustralianJazz.net.
  4. ^ Moran, John Shand, Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Robert (4 May 2023). "Kesha's Gag Order is an anti-pop revelation". The Sydney Morning Herald.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Australian Jazz Bell Awards". PBS FM. 31 July 2018.
  6. ^ Cashmere, Paul (2 May 2013). "2013 Australian Jazz Bell Awards Winners Announced In Melbourne". Noise11.com.
  7. ^ "Professional Development Awards". APRA AMCOS.
  8. ^ "Professional Development Awards". APRA AMCOS.
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