NOMINATION: Performance of the Year - Jazz / Improvised Music
For the performance of a single Australian work, showcasing the performer(s)’ success in improvisatory creation or collaboration. This may entail entirely improvised work or significant improvisatory input such as solo passages.
A work is defined as a single complete musical composition, or expression. This includes music with movements or sub-works (i.e. song cycles), installations, and real-time compositions (improvised music).
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Nominee
Danny Healy
Nominee email
danny_healy@yahoo.com.au
Title of the work
Sorrow for Ukraine
Composer(s) of the work
Mieka Tabart
Performance Date
19/8/2024
Venue
YouTube (19/8/2024) / ABC Radio Tasmania (18/9/2024)
Nominator Statement
The middle section of my work, Sorrow for Ukraine, is improvised.
Danny Healys improvised clarinet solo displays not only the skills of a world class improviser and clarinet player but also, and importantly, expresses an unrivalled depth of raw and intimate emotion capturing the intensity of sorrow, anguish, anger and utter devastation caused by the war in Ukraine.
Typical of Dannys dedicated and professional musicianship, he put every ounce of himself into this live studio recording. At the end of the performance there was profound silence and our mouths dropped in wonder at what we had witnessed. There was no question we had landed on the performance that would be the digital public release of this work.
I am nominating Danny because his improvised clarinet solo expresses so utterly the complex thematic emotions of this piece, not just with masterful skill and creativity, but also, and most significantly, with deeply and personally felt poignancy.
Nominee
Danny Healy
Nominee email
danny_healy@yahoo.com.au
Title of the work
Sorrow for Ukraine
Composer(s) of the work
Mieka Tabart
Performance Date
19/8/2024
Venue
YouTube (19/8/2024) / ABC Radio Tasmania (18/9/2024)
Danny Healys improvised clarinet solo displays not only the skills of a world class improviser and clarinet player but also, and importantly, expresses an unrivalled depth of raw and intimate emotion capturing the intensity of sorrow, anguish, anger and utter devastation caused by the war in Ukraine.
Typical of Dannys dedicated and professional musicianship, he put every ounce of himself into this live studio recording. At the end of the performance there was profound silence and our mouths dropped in wonder at what we had witnessed. There was no question we had landed on the performance that would be the digital public release of this work.
I am nominating Danny because his improvised clarinet solo expresses so utterly the complex thematic emotions of this piece, not just with masterful skill and creativity, but also, and most significantly, with deeply and personally felt poignancy.