Cancellation of public programs
The Benalla Art Gallery has cancelled this program based on advice from the Australian Federal and Victorian Governments on preventing the spread of COVID-19, including across our community, staff, volunteers, artists and visitors.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. We will keep you informed of any future changes via the Gallery website and Facebook.
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Spring Concert featuring Andrea Keller with Sam Anning and Julien Wilson
When: Sunday 6th September 2020 3PM
Where: Ledger Gallery
Price: $27 members / $30 non-members
This concert is supported by Dr Geraldine Lazarus and Mr Greig Gailey
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre in association with Benalla Art Gallery
Continuing a proud history of music concerts at the Gallery, Benalla Art Gallery is partnering with Melbourne Recital Centre to present a wonderful series of seasonal performances in 2020. Each concert has been selected to resonate with the Gallery’s program of exhibitions.
Benalla Art Gallery’s Spring Concert features Andrea Keller with Sam Anning (double bass) and Julien Wilson (saxophone). Keller’s wide-ranging and at times improvisational musical styling resonates with the playful, rhythmic works presented in Ken Done’s Paintings you probably haven’t seen.
About Andrea Keller
Born of Czech parents, Andrea Keller grew up in Sydney, Australia.
Convinced from a young age that she would be a musician, she studied piano, flute and saxophone at the Sydney Conservatorium High School. Inspired by her older brother, she penned her first compositions at the age of 10, and received her A-mus-a with distinction on piano at age 14. It was around this time that she was introduced to jazz music and the art of improvisation. Continuing to explore classical, jazz and original music throughout her teenage years, her musical path became more defined when she moved to Melbourne in 1993 to study improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts.
During Keller’s professional career, she has led many projects as a pianist, whose focus has been to perform her original compositions and arrangements, most notably Still Night: Music in Poetry, Five Below, Transients, Masters & Apprentices, The Andrea Keller Quartet, The Bartok Project, The Wayne Shorter Project, The Komeda Project, From Ether, and Three Lanes. She was a co-founding member of the original Bennetts Lane Big Band (2001-2013), and is a Yamaha artist, and a represented artist of the Australian Music Centre. Keller is currently Lecturer in Music (Jazz & Improvisation – Piano) at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
The diversity of Keller’s approach to music has seen her perform in settings ranging from big band to solo, and has placed her on stage with artists such as Eddie Perfect, Genevieve Lacey, John Surman (UK), Nicole Lizee (CA), Ronan Guilfoyle (IE), the Black Arm Band, Bernie McGann, the Australian Art Orchestra, Sandy Evans, Flinders Quartet, Allan Browne, Ten Part Invention, Phil Slater, The Song Company, Vince Jones, Kristin Berardi, Mike Nock, Gian Slater, Barney McAll, James Crabb, and more.
Lauded for her music, Keller has received three ARIA Awards, seven Australian Jazz ‘Bell’ Awards, two Art Music Awards, an APRA Professional Development Award, the Merlyn Myer Composing Women’s Commission, a Music Victoria Award, the Melbourne Music Prize (Beleura Emerging Composers Award), and fellowships from the MCA/Freedman Foundation and the Australia Council.
She holds a Bachelor of Music in Improvisation (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts (2001), a Master of Arts (Research) from Queensland University of Technology (2011), and is a PhD candidate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.
Bookings essential:
Tickets available via Gallery reception, or
T 03 5760 2619, or
gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
