Doors 6pm
Show 7pm
In a world increasingly driven by clicks and views, where meaningful art and human connection often take a backseat, Harry Mitchell created an album that responds to the shifting way we consume music. Tonight, Harry is joined by Ben Vanderwal, Ben Witt, and Karl Florisson, along with Melbourne-based alto saxophonist and artist Flora Carbo, to launch their 2024 album, Noon.
If you missed their first 2024 performance, you can read an account of their last meeting here.
More about Flora:
Flora was the Melbourne International Jazz Festival’s Take Note Leader for 2022. She was a finalist for the Freedman Jazz Fellowships in 2022 and 2021; for the Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year at the 2019 Australian Jazz Bell Awards; and for the 2016 National Jazz Award. She won the James Morrison Scholarship at the Generations in Jazz Festival in 2017.
Flora Carbo is a saxophonist, composer and music leader from Naarm (Melbourne), with works devised for major festival stages at Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Canberra International Music Festival, Phoenix Central Park’s Strata Festival, Amersfoort Jazz Festival, and alongside luminaries of Australian jazz and improvised music like Barney McAll and Andrea Keller.
Flora’s significant commissions and premieres include Momentually with Theo Carbo at the 2023 Canberra International Music Festival; the SIMA Emerging Composers Commission 2022; Flora Carbo Percussion Ensemble for quartets of adaptable instrumentation at the 2023 Strata Festival; and Ecosystem for three voices and three saxophones at the 2022 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. In 2023, Flora undertook Residency in Motion, a five-month international program generously supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Fund.
“Some serious buzz”
— The Age
“When I put on Flora Carbo’s debut record, Erica – my first time hearing her – my mind raced straight back to the last time I heard Bernie. The two moments seemed connected by a thread. It was not only that the music was good – though the best moments on the record are sublime – it was why it was good. It felt real.”
— Music Trust
More about Harry:
Harry has been recognized with several awards:
2017: Young Australian Jazz Musician of the Year at the Australian Bell Jazz Awards.
2017, 2018, 2020: West Australian Music (WAM) Best Jazz Song award.
2018: WAM Best Pianist award.
Harry has performed with numerous notable artists such as Veronica Swift, Sarah Hanahan, Charlie Watts, Katy Steele, Hank Marvin, Vincent Gardner, Kate Ceberano, and George Garzone. Harry’s discography is extensive, with sixteen albums as a leader. His 2022 release, Archetypes, draws inspiration from Carl Jung’s theories, exploring universal human consciousness through music.
In 2021, Harry was a finalist in the Wangaratta Jazz Festival’s National Jazz Awards piano competition. He has performed at major festivals such as the Perth International Jazz Festival, Brisbane Jazz Festival, Sydney Con Jazz Festival, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, and the Ubud Village Jazz Festival in Bali.
