Andrea Keller/Sandy Evans
Personnel
Andrea Keller piano
Sandy Evans saxophone
Sandy Evans and Melbourne pianist Andrea Keller are two of Australia’s finest musicians, distinguished for their profound music and roles as leaders within contemporary jazz.
"Keller is ‘one of the most original – if not the most original – in Australian jazz."
Australianjazz.net
Together Sandy and Andrea have performed in duo at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, Zephyrs Jazz at Four Winds, and the Orange Winter Jazz Festival. They also collaborated with Silke Eberhard at SIMA’s 2017 Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival.
"Both of us are keen to see more women in jazz and improvised music and have done various things throughout our careers to encourage this."
Sandy Evans
“There is always something fresh about Andrea's approach to composition, regardless of the style, tempo, orchestration or aesthetic of the particular piece. This makes her stand out as an artist who has a very strong, individual and important creative voice…I'm always very keen to play Andrea's compositions, which are truly sublime”
Sandy Evans
Keller and Evans have launched educational programs in their respective cities, tailored specifically for young women and gender-diverse musicians, to provide them with learning opportunities.
About Andrea Keller
Andrea is a champion of Australian creative music and a nurturer of emerging musicians, Andrea curates Monday nights at the Jazzlab, runs the educational program Gender Defying Jazz and is Head of Jazz & Improvisation at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.
More information
Interviews, links and more
Composed by Andrea Keller
Performed by Sandy Evans (saxophone) & Andrea Keller (piano)
In an interview with the Australian Music Centre, Keller mentions she “wrote a composition especially for this duo. It’s called Missed Opportunities and was written after… I was told the award had already been announced, that I’d won, but had missed the opportunity to go out on stage to accept it from my hero! [Evans] [because] on the night I was in the dressing room with two of my musical colleagues… began sharing stories of our experiences …and that we’ve missed many opportunities because we are women.”
30 October 2018, by Anni Heino.
This November brings together, for the first time as a duo, two of Australia’s best-known jazz artists, pianist Andrea Keller and saxophonist Sandy Evans. We asked the two incredibly busy women some questions about this, as well as their other current projects and commissions.
Indigo Hues – Sandy Evans & Andrea Keller
This beautiful composition by Sandy Evans was performed by her and Andrea Keller at the Windsong Pavilion near Bermagui last October in a rare duo performance. Regarded as two of Australia’s most oustanding musicians, they first performed as a duo in late 2018.