Andrea Keller & Elly Hoyt

Andrea Keller is an Australian musician and composer. She won the 2003 and 2008 ARIA Awards for Best Jazz Album with Mikrokosmos and Footprints and was nominated in 2013 for the album Family Portraits. With the Andrea Keller Quartet she has the same award and been nominated three other times. During Keller's professional career, she has led many projects as a pianist, whose focus has been to perform her original compositions and arrangements, most notably The Andrea Keller Quartet, The Bartok Project, The Wayne Shorter Project, The Komeda Project, From Ether, and Three Lanes. She was a co-founding member of the original Bennetts Lane Big Band (2001-2013), and is a represented artist of the Australian Music Centre.

London based, Australian native Elly Hoyt is a jazz and contemporary singer. She has appeared at venues and festivals in Australia and abroad including the Melbourne International Jazz Festival, Shanghai World Expo in China and the 55 bar in New York City. In 2011, Elly won Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album at the Australian Jazz Bell Awards and is the first jazz vocalist to receive the Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship in 2015. Elly Hoyt has performed for Prince Charles and Camilla, opened for Kenny Barron and played alongside James Morrison. Elly is an active educator and has holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Voice and Masters of Vocal Pedagogy from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University (QCGU). She currently lectures in voice at BIMM, London.

Elly Hoyt (voice) Julien Wilson (saxophones), Sam Anning (double bass) & Andrea Keller (piano).