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Judy Bailey

Judy Bailey (OAM) is a New Zealand-born pianist, jazz musician, and composer who has lived in Australia since the 1960s. She started to learn piano and music theory when she was 10 years old, then graduated from Trinity College in London when she was 16. She moved to Sydney (Australia) in 1960, where she developed a strong and successful career as a musician.

Judy lecturers in jazz composition and jazz piano at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and is musical director of the Sydney Youth Jazz Ensemble.

Steve Barry

Steve Barry is a pianist, organist, composer and improviser based in Sydney, Australia. He maintains a busy schedule composing, teaching and performing across Australia, New Zealand and East Asia. His doctoral thesis investigates the uses of pitch class sets, serialism and intervallicism as tools for composition and improvisation.

Steve is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year (2013), and was a nominee for the 2016 Freedman Fellowship.