Sally who?
Jazz Pianist & (Film) Composer
PG-Dip Composition (RCM, London), BMus Jazz (ANU, Canberra), LRSM, PG-Dip Education (UC, Canberra)
Winner 2009 Canberra International Music Festival Young Composer Competition
Winner 2008 APRA/JMO National Big Band Composition Competition
Emerging Australian composer, Sally Greenaway, is off to London in August 2009 to study film composition at the Royal College of Music.
She has won 2 significant composition competitions. Just recently she won the ‘Canberra International Music Festival 2009 Young Composer Award’, where she wrote for the fantastic Finnish vocal group Rajaton.
Last year Sally won the ‘Inaugural 2008 APRA/JMO National Big Band Composition Competition’, with her piece 'Falling of Seasons'. As part of the competition, she conducted her piece for the Mothership Orchestra during a concert at the ABC's Eugene Goossens Hall in Sydney, which was also broadcast live on the ABC Classic FM show Jazztrack.
Apart from writing vocal group and big band works, Sally has written a number of smaller compositions, including a harp piece, several choral works, a piece for marimba, violin and cello, and is now finishing a book of classical, jazzy and modern compositions for piano students to enjoy.
In 2007 Sally grouped up with two other musicians, forming ‘Jealous 3’ - recording original commercial music, including pop, R&B and dance.
Her jazz group, the ‘Sally Greenaway Project’ have been successfully performing at many sell-out concert events, performing original compositions and arrangements.
Sally won 2 grants in 2005, creating ‘Take it in Colour’, which is a collection of pieces by young female jazz composers from the ANU School of Jazz. She was also invited to compose the scores for two animation films, which were screened around Australia in 2006.
In 2005 Sally graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Piano) at the ANU School of Music as well as a Licentiate Diploma from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in classical piano. She has also studied voice and composition. She teaches many students, encompasing all styles of music, aural, musicianship and composition.
Her influences include Jacky Terrasson, Stefon Harris, Laurence Hobgood, Joshua Redman, Giovanni Mirabassi, Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Debussy. Sally's composing and arranging draws on ideas from all over the world, including the Middle East, South America, Europe and Asia. She enjoys creating exotic characters, moods, textures and thick harmonies to transport listeners away from everyday life.
As she continues to develop her compositional craft, Sally hopes to work further in studios and become a professional producer, arranger and composer.
See images of her Shigeru Kawai grand.
Press images of Sally & the Sally Greenaway Project.
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