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Paul Grabowsky is a pianist, composer, arranger and conductor, and is one of Australia's most distinguished artists. Born in Papua New Guinea in 1958, Paul was raised in Melbourne where he attended Wesley College.
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Paul Atherstone Grabowsky AO, born 27 September 1958, is an Australian pianist and composer, founder of the Australian Art Orchestra. Biography. Born in Lae, Papua New Guinea, Grabowsky is a pianist and composer of music for film, theatre and opera.
TitleAlbum DetailsPeak Chart Positions(aus[28])Please Leave Your Light On (with Paul ...Released: 31 July 2020 Label: EMI Music ...3Tryst (with Kate Ceberano)Released: 3 May 2019 Label: ABC / ...147Moons of Jupiter (featuring Scott ...Released: 24 April 2018 Label: Besant ...–Torrio! (with Mirko Guerrini, Niko ...Released: November 2017 Label: Encore ...–Oct 3, 2020 · To add to all this, here we have Please Leave Your Light On with Paul Grabowsky. Grabowsky is an award-winning Australian pianist and composer of music for film, theatre and opera, and is well known for his work in jazz, most recently on Tryst (2019) with Kate Ceberano.
- Speaking in Tongues
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As Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at Monash University’s Music School Grabowsky is currently involved in a program called Building The 21st-Century Musician, and, while he sees jazz as now being just one step along the way to becoming a creative musician rather than an end-point, he thinks it remains ‘one of the great ways to learn how to improvise. It’s...
Concepts aside, one of Grabowsky’s most significant contributions to creative music has been to popularise the pooling of players from different Australian states. Common enough in the 1960s, the practice had waned until Grabowsky did it with the Wizards of Oz, the band he co-formed with saxophonist Dale Barlow in 1986. Barlow and Grabowsky had lin...
‘The great thing about this music,’ Grabowsky says, ‘is that we lift each other up and carry each other forward. I get very, very inspired by the people I work with.’ One of those was Bernie McGann, with whom Grabowsky’s was co-leading a quartet when the great saxophonist died. ‘It’s heart-breaking,’ he says. ‘But every bar of music I played with B...
He was certainly that when living in Munich in the early 1980s, and playing with such luminaries as Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Johnny Griffin. But after five years he felt compelled to return to Australia. ‘I wanted to play a role in making the music our own,’ he says. ‘I also felt very strongly that in developing my own language I was going to hav...
One of Grabowsky’s joys in running the AAO has also been its various collaborative ventures. ‘Working with Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter on Ruby’s Story had a huge effect on me,’ he says. ‘The other one was The Theft of Seitawith the Balinese. These were amazing opportunities to test-fly the whole notion about jazz and improvised music being a reall...
May 17, 2022 · The renowned pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky sits down with us to answer some of our questions ahead of his national tour with fellow piano maestro Andrea Lam from 11 to 25 June. You’ll be giving an improvisation on the Goldberg Variations for Musica Viva Australia.
Mr Paul Grabowsky, founder of the Australian Art Orchestra gives this lecture entitled 'the complete musician' at The Australian National Univerisity on the ...
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Paul Grabowsky is a pianist, composer, arranger, conductor – and is one Australia’s most distinguished artists. Born in Papua New Guinea, Paul was raised in Melbourne. During the late 70’s he became prominent in the music scene in Melbourne, working in various jazz, theatre and cabaret projects.
