Jetsets is presenting a special Christmas Extravaganza on Tuesday 23 December to celebrate the conclusion of another year of creative music performances.
The gig will take place at the new home of The Living Room Theatre at 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville.
Special guest performer for the evening will be visiting Austrian bass clarinetist Anna Koch. Anna was featured in Sydney last year at the Cut Paste Play festival presented by the Music Box Project, and we are delighted to have her back in Sydney and performing for Jetsets.
The local talent will be the dynamic IBID duo featuring Keyna Wilkins on piano and flute along with Shane Carpini on drums.
More information about the artists is included below.
Please come along and celebrate with us!
Anna Koch
Anna Koch is an Austrian clarinet and bass clarinet player. As a professional musician, she specialises in contemporary and improvised music.
Studies in clarinet performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduation with honours in 2017. Startstipendium Musik grant 2020 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture. Premiere of her solo programme BASSticcio in January 2022. Selected Artist for NASOM – The New Austrian Sound of Music 2023/24.
Touring the world for her project Connecting the Dots where she collaborates with musicians, composers, and performers from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Member of Platypus Ensemble and ensemble reconsil, frequent guest artist with Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Bang on a Can-All Stars, etc.. Collaborations with musicians and composers around the world such as Petra Stump-Linshalm, Michael Jarrell, Ig Hennemann, Julia Wolfe, Ken Thomson, Tamara Friebel, Elizabeth Jigalin, Flora Geißelbrecht, Marcio Steuernagel, Felipe Almeida-Ribeiro, Ariana Tikao, Reuben Jelleyman, and Bruno Liberda.
Performances as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals like Wien modern, Bang on a Can (USA), Auckland Arts Festival (New Zealand), Impuls Graz, SiMN Festival Curitiba (Brasil), Klangspuren Schwaz, Cut Paste Play Festival (Australia), Styriarte, Imago Dei, and Expo Shanghai (2010).
IBID Duo
IBID is Keyna Wilkins (piano/flute) and Shane Carpini (drumset). Together they play stream of consciousness improvisations and their own compositions inspired by philosophy, astronomy and human behaviour.
Wilkins is an Australian/British composer-musician and was one of three finalists for the Australian Art Music Awards for Individual Excellence in 2021 and 2018. Carpini is a prolific drummer and composer.