Catherine Traicos
Catherine Traicos
Sydney singer-songwriter Catherine Traicos’ ability to combine surprising arrangements, her gorgeously delicate smoky voice and brilliant live performances have seen her compared to everyone from Gillian Welch, Cat Power and Beth Orton to eels and Cowboy Junkies. Catherine is a classically trained pianist and a self-taught guitarist with influences ranging from Neil Young to Duke Ellington.
Catherine’s new album, Gloriosa, produced by 5-time ARIA award winner Paul McKercher and recorded for the first time with her full band, the Starry Night, has been described as reaching “true Masterpiece Status” (Inpress) and as “an album which should cement Catherine Traicos and The Starry Night as a serious force in Australian music”(liveguide). Already album of the week in the Weekly Review and Time Off and the Monthly top pick in Country HQ, Gloriosa continues to pick up plaudits across the country and the globe.
The Amazing, the follow up full-length release to 2008’s Gone, again revealed Catherine’s versatile songwriting abilities and instinctive and imaginative arrangements. Critically lauded, The Amazing was selected as Album of the Month in the Melbourne (Age) Magazine and Album of the Week on Lost Highway, WMBR Boston.
Catherine has undertaken four headlining national tours, played with international acts including Beth Orton, Mountain Goats, The Unthanks and Spiral Stairs, appeared on stage with M. Ward, and been on bills with the very best of Australian musicians including the Kill Devil Hills, The Holy Sea, Dave Larkin and Charles Jenkins.
Philip Everall
Philip Everall
One of Perth’s best known clarinettists, Philip has performed concerts spanning a vast array of repertoires across three continents and ten countries. Philip is active in all settings from Solo Recitals, Symphony Orchestras to Funk and Klezmer Bands. After Graduating from UWA with a Bachelor of Music he went on to study for Masters degrees in Amsterdam (with Harry Sparnaay and Erik van Deuren) and New York’s Manhattan School of Music (with Michael Lowenstern and David Krakauer). Philip has been in demand as a proponent of Contemporary music, having developed a style of playing that combines traditional classical training with avant garde extended techniques. He has performed with most of Australia’s major Symphony Orchestras as well as ensembles overseas including The Schoenberg Ensemble, ASKO and New York’s Sequitur.
Press Quotes:
“The highlight was Philip Everall’s superb account of Nigel Westlake’s Onomatopoeia for “bass clarinet and delay”.Playing from memory and with impressive rhythmic vitality, Everall gave a captivating performance.
Mark Coughlan, The Australian
“…(klezmer clarinettist Philip Everall’s playing) came close to the heart of a genre that, like the tango, is enjoying a remarkable worldwide renaissance”
- Neville Cohn, The West Australian
“Philip Everall offered another memorable performance, closing the evening on the bass clarinet, an instrument that usually plays a supporting role in an ensemble. But he played Michael Lowenstern’s jazzy score with the agility and precision of a soloist, and a natural one at that.”
- David Stabler, The Oregonian
“I absolutely loved it. Really appreciate all the work they put into it…”
John Zorn (on hearing the performance of “Sortilege”.