Steve Barry is a pianist, organist, composer and improviser based in Sydney, Australia.
A current PhD candidate in composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Steve maintains a busy schedule composing, teaching and performing across Australia, New Zealand and, more recently, Japan and East Asia. His doctoral thesis investigates the uses of pitch class sets, serialism and intervallicism as tools for composition and solo and collective improvisation.
Steve is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year (2013), 2nd place in the National Jazz Awards (2013), and a BBM Travel Scholarship (2011). He was a finalist in the 2017 APRA Professional Development Awards and a nominee for the 2016 Freedman Fellowship.
