5oLo5 is a series of monthly contemporary music presentations that brings together five preeminent performers to present short solo works and to present a longer work as a quintet. Carefully curated by Trevor Brown 5oLo5 examines the very personal elements of practice and the nature of collaboration and cooperation.

Hayley Chan
Gary Daley
Ellen Kirkwood
Freya Shack-Arnott
Trevor Brown

Hayley Chan is a performer, improviser, and composer graduating with First Class Honoursfrom the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2024. Praised for being "an incredible drummer and sensitive musician" (Chloe Kim, Australian drummer) and "creative and technically precise" (Simon Barker, Australian drummer Hayley has made her mark across Australia's east coast, having performed at the Sydney Opera House and at festivals such as Bigsound, Kiama Jazz and Blues, Orange Winter Jazz Festival. She has been Dots+Loops performance fellow developing work for the Non-Stop Festival 2024
Hayley joined the all-femme jazz hip-hop band, Monstress,
In June 2024, Hayley premiered her drumset concerto, Creatures/Inhabitants, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Most recently, Hayley’s experimental post-hardcore band, Angel Grindr, released their debut album, “Short Leesh,” setting the stage for the next chapter of their experiemental, hardcore releases.

Freya Schack-Arnott (DK/AUS) is a contemporary cellist and nyckelharpist who enjoys a multi-faceted career as a performer, improviser, composer and curator; ranging from contemporary classical repertoire to experimental, electronics, folk and popular art forms. Schack-Arnott regularly performs with Australia’s leading new music ensembles, including ELISION Ensemble (as core member) and Ensemble Offspring. As an improviser and composer, Schack-Arnott’s current projects include: ’Runa Cara’ (Scando/Irish folk duo) and ‘Bonniesongs’ with Bonnie Stewart, ‘FSA/BW’ (experimental string duo with bassist Benjamin Ward) and DK trio ‘Skaft Økse og Sav’.Freya is also co-founder and curator of the regular ‘Opus Now’ music series, an ongoing project exploring relationships between the music of today and classical string quartets.

Ellen Kirkwood is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader and educator. In 2012 she won the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award for young women in Jazz, and was the recipient of the 2019 NSW APRA Art Music Award for Jazz Excellence. She was a finalist in the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowships, and her suite for Big Band, "[A]part", was a finalist for Jazz Work of the Year in the 2018 APRA Art Music Awards.
As a trumpeter, Ellen has toured and recorded with a variety of successful ensembles, including Sirens Big Band, Mister Ott and On The Stoop, played with superstars Boy George and Hermitude, and performed at popular Australian festivals including Woodford Folk Festival, Sydney Festival and Melbourne International Jazz Festival. A 2016-17 mentorship with stellar composer/pianist Barney McAll, funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, led to the creation, recording and tour performances of [A]part; her 1-hour suite composed for Sirens Big Band plus guests Sandy Evans, Andrea Keller and Gian Slater. She has also released albums with her groups Captain Kirkwood and Fat Yahoozah, led the Mieville Project and Underwards, and co-led the Sydney Women's Jazz Collective. Her many commissioned works include pieces written for the New York-based Festival of New Trumpet Music, and the Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival. Since 2016 she has directed the Young Women's Jazz Orchestra; a project begun by Sirens Big Band to encourage and educate girls and young women towards careers in jazz.

Gary Daley studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe as well as Roger Frampton. Gary is a member of the jazz band Greening from Ear to Ear and the jazz-world music band The Catholics. He also leads the quartet Bungarribee which features his compositions and interpretations from the classical repertoire and performs on the ABC TV children show Lah Lah’s Adventures. As Artistic Director of Springwood’s (Blue Mountains) Live at the Village, Daley presents a concert series where locals can hear anything from jazz, country, world music, to free improvisation.

Trevor Brown is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, improvisers and curator, known for his work as a diverse performer, multi-media artist, and producer.
He has lectured in Composition, Sound Design and Performance Studies at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Conservatorium and RMIT, and is the Artistic Director of the Sydney Improvisers Composers Kollektiv Orchestra. He has presented the Found Sounds, Lost Horizons show on Eastside radio for 18 years, has been a featured artist at Ars Electronica, Linz, Wien Modern Festival, and the 2023 Volume Festival and co-directed festivals in Italy, Croatia and the UK. He curated the sound program for the 2022 Cementa, created the Nightime series for Performance Space and SICKO series.

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