Ryley Duncan and friends is back for some JAZZ TUNES WOOO with an amazing band, with the pleasure of having the fantastic Ava McDermott join us!
Come stay warm with some banging trio and quartet action featuring some great standards and heavy improvisationsss yipeeee. One time show at the Green so don’t miss this one
$10!
Ticket link: https://www.trybooking.com/CJCFD
Ava McDermott - Vocals
Ryley Duncan - Piano
Paddy Fitzgerald - Bass
Jordan Warwick - Durms
A lil about Ava:
Ava McDermott is a vocalist from Naarm (Melbourne). Proficient in both classical and jazz styles, Ava is a versatile musician, drawing from a range of musical traditions and techniques with a significant focus on improvisation.
Ava began studying classical voice with Timothy Reynolds and Dermott Tutty at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. Whilst attending there she also received lessons for jazz vocal studies from Michelle Nicolle, whom she still studies under.
Ava was awarded the Margaret Schofield Memorial Scholarship in 2022 for her high-achieving VCE performance results and dedication to a career in music performance.
Now studying a Bachelor of Music in Jazz & Improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts, Ava works to integrate her musical backgrounds and teachings through her improvisation. derived from a wide scope of musical practices and vocal techniques, often working in small groups of duos and trios.
A lil bout me:
Ryley Duncan is an award-winning composer, contemporary/jazz pianist and a graduate of The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music (BMus). Ryley has performed at many venues nationally as both a headliner and an accompanist, he has curated shows at Melbourne Recital Centre, Paris Cat, Tempo Rubato, Ellington Jazz Club, The Jazzlab, Duke of George and many more. He brings the love of music and excitement on stage, with contagious energy and raw honestly in every performance.
He has shared the stage with some of Australia’s finest in music, along with performing and recording an album with the internationally renowned bassist; Linda Oh, and the New York based trumpeter and composer; Ralph Alessi.
He has also been taught by some of Australia’s most recognised pianists in Barney McAll, Luke Howard, Monique DiMattina and Steve Sedergreen, and US-Based recipient of the 2019 American Pianists Award, Emmet Cohen.
In the summer of 2018, Ryley travelled to New York to attend the New York University Summer Jazz Workshop, where he gained an even deeper understanding from greats such as; Larry White, Buster Williams, Joe Lovano, and Chris Potter, and got taught by the inspiring Alan Broadbent.
In 2022, Ryley received and is currently undertaking the Angus Gray Piano
Performance Grant - dedicated to the memory of Angus Gray and beautifully supported by the family - to develop a passion project lead by Ryley Duncan. This project fuses neo-classical, improvisation and dance and will feature original contemporary piano and string works, and choreographed dance works.
Ryley received the Monash University Jazz Prize in 2020 for his composition; “A Dystopian Tale”, presented by Andrea Keller and Paul Williamson.
Ryley’s contemporary compositional approach is heavily inspired by composers such as Luke Howard, Andrea Keller, Slow Meadow, Anne Müller, Peter Sandburg, Bing and Ruth, Max Richter and Ambrose Akinmusire, utilising the knowledge passed through their music.