Student discussion with Paul Grabowsky

The distinguished jazz pianist, composer, conductor and festival director Professor Paul Grabowsky AO, who is currently Professorial Fellow in the School of Music at Monash University, will be available to talk with students about his experiences working and performing with intercultural musicians and groups, such as the Young Wagilak Group from Ngukurr, and his collaborations with Balinese musicians and pupeteers. Paul founded the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO), an improvisational ensemble, in 1994 to explore links between traditional and avant-garde, art and popular music, electronic and acoustic media, and improvised and notated forms.

Professor Paul Grabowsky AO, with the Australian Arts Orchestra and the Young Wagilak Group, was the recipient of the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship in 2010. He has won five ARIA awards, two Helpmann awards, several Bell Awards and a Deadly award. He was the Sydney Myer Performing Artist of the Year in 2000, and received the Melbourne Prize for Music in 2007. He is currently a Professor at Monash University, and director of the Monash University Academy of the Performing Arts and the Monash Art Ensemble. In 2014 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to music and arts administration