Meg Washington is a platinum-selling, five-time ARIA Award-winning singer, songwriter, composer and performer whose career spans jazz, pop, folk, screen music and contemporary performance. One of Australia’s most distinctive musical voices, she has released multiple acclaimed albums, earning widespread critical recognition and a devoted national audience.
Known for her ability to move seamlessly between genres, Meg began her career in jazz before establishing herself as one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary songwriters. Her work has featured across film, television and theatre, and she has become a familiar voice to audiences through both her recording career and live performances.
It is difficult to describe Paul Grabowsky’s career easily. He has been a director of some of Australia’s most prominent arts festivals, the composer of nearly thirty feature film scores, and several works of music theatre, the founder and leader for nineteen years of the Australian Art Orchestra, an executive at the ABC, and currently heads up Monash University Performing Arts Centres.
Whether as composer, teacher, television personality, mentor or advocate for the role of artistic expression as a defining attribute of contemporary life, for him this is all informed by his work as a pianist, and composer, particularly in the field of jazz, where, according to him, ‘the piano never lies’.