DEC 5 - MONASH UNIVERSITY: Sounding Change

featuring Monique diMattina

evening show 7.30PM

co-presented with MONASH UNIVERSITY

The Jazzlab Tuesday Dec 5

doors 7pm show 7.30pm

Tickets HERE $25/20/15 Bookings essential

Monash University Sounding Change feat. Monique diMattina with guest artist Cat Canteri drums

Monash University Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music are passionate supporters of Australian Music, Gender Diversity, and Jazz and Improvisation. We are proud to sponsor the MWIJF, and thrilled to have our students perform, listen and learn through the fantastic artists and events featured within the festival. This concert will feature student ensembles performing two sets of music led by innovative composer and pianist Monique diMattina with guest artist Cat Canteri on drums

Ensemble 1         

Piano: Monique diMattina

Bass: CHEZZ CINQUEGRANA

Alto Sax: OLIVIA VAN DER HEYDEN

Tenor Sax: BERNICE RAMOS

Voice: LAURA PRYOR

Drums  CAT CANTERI

Ensemble 2         

Piano: Monique DiMattina

Bass: CHEZZ CINQUEGRANA

Alto Sax: AKARI HIRAYAMA

Tenor Sax: MADELINE BROWNE

Keyboard: MERINA PENANUEVA

Voice: RHEA JOHN 

Drums   CAT CANTERI

Monique diMattina: pianist and composer

Composer/lyricist, pianist/vocalist,  Fulbright Scholar, Yamaha Artist and mother of two Monique diMattina has enjoyed an eclectic career reflecting her broad musical interests.

Monique’s seven albums (Head Records) span jazz/roots through folk/indie pop to neo- classical solo piano compositions. Monique is known for writing bespoke songs on air to listener requests (ABC /TripleR) and for her compositions for film/stage.  Her current project STELLA: The Miles Franklin Story is a two hour musical telling the life story of Australian author Stella Miles Franklin.  STELLA recently played a sellout workshop season at The Jazzlab featuring Alma Zygier, and is being developed towards a theatrical debut in 2024. Since returning to Melbourne from New York in 2009 Monique has toured internationally with Disney’s The Lion King, scored various film/stage productions and been Musical Director of ‘Tapestry:The Songs of Carol King’ feat. Vika Bull/Debra Byrne. Recent collaborators include Clare Bowditch, Harry James Angus, Deborah Conway and Rebecca Barnard, for whom she recently produced/arranged 'The Night We Called It a Day'. She  has been the recipient of many prizes including Fulbright, Queens Trust and Australia Council awards and teaches at the VCA (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music) and Monash University jazz departments.   www.moniquedimattina.com

Cat Canteri

Renowned songwriter Cat Canteri intertwines poignant and poetic lyrics to create music that’s both fragile and life affirming. With a disarming stage presence her songs document real life situations and experiences with a brave, personal and candid honesty. Described as "an impressive work of songwriting mastery" her latest album Inner North and was nominated in The Music Victoria Awards for Best Folk/Roots Album. On her principal instrument, drum-kit, she’s backed the likes of Kutcha Edwards, Vikki Thorn (The Waifs) and Mick Thomas (Weddings, Parties, Anything).