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MUSICAL PERFORMANCE > PHIL SLATER AT TRINITY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Phil Slater
Phil Slater is a multi-award winning trumpeter and composer based in Sydney. He is the leader or co-leader of several bands including the Phil Slater Quartet and Band of Five Names, and has performed and recorded with artists including Lou Reed, Nigel Kennedy, Missy Higgins, Katie Noonan, DIG, Archie Roach, Mike Nock, Terumasa Hino, Jim Black and The Australian Art Orchestra.
He has been a featured artist at many music festivals, including those at Montreaux, Northsea, Umbria, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Copenhagen, London, Tokyo, Mexico, Soeul, Hanover, Washington D.C., and New York.
As well as being awarded the 2004 Bell Award for Australian Jazz Artist of the Year, Phil was the 2003 Australian National Jazz Award winner, was awarded the 2002 Music Council of Australia Freedman Fellowship, and was a semi finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Trumpet Competition.
The Phil Slater Quartet is one of Australia's premier jazz ensembles. Led by multi-award winning trumpeter Phil Slater, the group features pianist Matt McMahon, bassist Lloyd Swanton, and drummer Simon Barker. The Quartet's 2007 recording called The Thousands has been acclaimed by critics around the world and awarded the Limelight Award for Outstanding Achievement in Australian Jazz as well as the 2008 Best Australian Jazz Ensemble at the recent Australian Bell Jazz Awards. The Quartet was featured at the 2008 Sydney Festival - Jazz in the Domain series, and has been invited by Dave Douglas to perform at the prestigious Festival of New Trumpet concert series in New York later in the year.
When:
7.30pm, Monday 4th August
Where:
Orchestra Room
Trinity Grammar School
119 Prospect Road, Summer Hill
Meet the musicians after the concert
Contact:
Nick Vickers
Convenor of the Society of the Arts
p.02 9581 6070
nvickers@trinity.nsw.edu.au
Free to members of the Society of the Arts
and any student in uniform
Paper donation (Australian currency preferred)
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