Steve Barry (musician)

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Steve Barry
BornNew Zealand
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)Pianist, composer
Website www.stevebarrymusic.com

Steve Barry is a New Zealand born jazz pianist and composer. He is the Program Leader for Jazz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney. [1] His album In the Waves with USA drummer Eric Harland received favourable coverage in the UK jazz magazine Jazzwise where Barry's music was described as "steeped in the harmonic rigours and free-flowing discipline of well-executed contemporary narrative jazz". [2] He has also received positive notice at Australianjazz.net [3] and in the Sydney Morning Herald, which praised In the Waves as “...the finest instalment to date of the pianist’s bristling musical intelligence, rhythmic mutability, melodic flair and compositional gifts.” [4]

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Discography

TitleDetails
Self-titled

Released: 2012

Orbiturtle: Sakura

Released: 2015

Blueprints & Vignettes

Released: 2018

Hatch

Released: 2018

Orbiturtle: Joganji

Released: 2018

Polyglot: Talk, Vol. 1

Released: 2020

Green Thumbs

Released: 2021

In the Waves

Released: 2023

Awards and nominations

Australian Jazz Bell Awards

The Australian Jazz Bell Awards acknowledge excellence in Australian Jazz. [5]

YearCategoryResultRef.
2013Bell Award for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the YearWon [6]

APRA Professional Development Award

The APRA Professional Development Awards provide support to emerging songwriters and composers. [7]

YearCategoryResultRef.
2021Jazz/Improvised MusicWon [8]

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References

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