Noosa Chorale and the Australian Jazz Ensemble are back doing what they do best – making music after a four-year absence!
Their combined successful concerts are making a return with guest conductor Paul Coppens directing the singers and Brett Iggulden directing the Jazz Ensemble. The concerts, All That Jazz, are a part of the opening events of the week-long Noosa Jazz Festival at the J Theatre on August 22 and 24 staged by the Noosa Heads Jazz Club.
Meet Brett Iggulden
Brett is an internationally acclaimed jazz musician who co-founded the Red Onions Jazz Band with two of his sixteen-year-old Melbourne schoolmates in 1961. The band were a sensation in the Melbourne jazz scene, then playing at dance clubs, concerts around Australia, at Australian Jazz Conventions, on television shows such as “The Mike Walsh Show” and “In Melbourne Tonight”, and finally with two world tours. Brett continued his musical career after he moved to Bellingen when the Iggulden family manufacturing business moved its factory to this small town on the NSW north coast in 1974. His innovative nature expressed in his music has extended to the manufacturing business Planet Lighting, where he is the CEO and has become a major exporter of state-of-the-art lighting, culminating in winning the contract for lighting the walkways between the Olympic Village and the main stadium for the Paris Olympics.
Meet Paul Coppens
Paul Coppens has an equally innovative and entrepreneurial background; after training as a conductor in Europe, he established the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and went on to found the Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra as its Music Director. He has toured with ballet companies from the former USSR, the UK and the USA. Moving to the Sunshine Coast, Paul was responsible for the creation and performance of the music drama about the ANZACs on Gallipoli for the 100-year commemoration.
“All That Jazz” will be performed on Thursday, August 22, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, August 24, at The J Noosa Junction. Tickets and information for these concerts and all of the events at the Noosa Jazz Festival are available at: Noosa Jazz Festival