Shannon Barnett

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Shannon Barnett 2018 at the Subway

Shannon Barnett (* 1982 in Traralgon ) is an Australian modern jazz musician ( trombone , composition ).

Live and act

Barnett graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in 2005 . From 2011 she studied at the State University of New York up to a master’s degree .

At first she played in groups like Vada , The Vampires and the Bennetts Lane Big Band . She has also performed with the Australian Art Orchestra , Barney McAlls Mother of Dreams and Secrets (with Kurt Rosenwinkel , Charlie Haden ), Flap! and the sextet by Paul Grabowsky . Barnett demonstrated her versatility in world music projects with the Australian group The Black Arm Band and the Tatana Village Choir from Papua New Guinea ; In 2010 she also worked as a circus musician in the experimental Circus Oz .

In 2010 she released her debut album. After moving to New York City in 2011, Barnett performed there with musicians such as Jon Faddis , Darcy James Argue , Cynthia Sayer and Dee Dee Bridgewater . From 2014 to 2018 she was a member of the WDR Big Band Cologne . She also belongs to the Large Ensemble of January Schreiner . Since April 2019 she has been teaching as a professor at the Cologne University of Music and Dance .

Barnett performed at many Australian festivals and toured Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Mexico, among others. She can also be heard on albums by Murphy's Law, The Bamboos, The Black Arm Band, Andrea Keller , the Echoes of Swing and Tamara Lukasheva .

Prizes and awards

Barnett received a 2004 Australia Council Composition Fellowship ; she performed the resulting work with singer Gian Slater at the Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival in the same year. In 2007 she was named "Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year" at the Bell Awards. Her debut album Country was nominated as "Best Jazz Album of the Year" for the AIR Awards 2010 and the ABC Limelight Awards 2011. In 2020 Barnett was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize in the improvisation category.

Discographic notes

Web links

Commons : Shannon Barnett  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short portrait (Black Arm Band)
  2. ↑ Barnett slides into man's world of brassy bands Sydney Morning Herald September 24, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Three new professors appointed Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 22, 2019
  4. ↑ ABC Limelight Awards ( Memento from October 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ WDR Jazzpreis 2020 goes to Shannon Barnett, Philip Zoubek, Bassem Hawar and the Big Band of the Friedensschule Münster - honorary award for the big band The Dorf und Umland. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Meeting (Michael Rüsenberg)
personal data
SURNAME Barnett, Shannon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian jazz musician (trombone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Traralgon