Jenny Game Ensemble
The Jenny Game Ensemble provides an opportunity for musicians from a variety of backgrounds to collaborate. In addition to jazz, the musicians involved work in classical, improvised, folk, popular and experimental musical styles.
Headed by saxophonist and composer, Jenny Game-Lapota, the Jenny Game Ensemble provides an opportunity for musicians from a variety of backgrounds to collaborate. In addition to jazz, the musicians involved work in classical, improvised, folk, popular and experimental musical styles.
It is a challenge for musicians to combine their diverse skills to produce new music!
Jenny Game Ensemble is featured on the following titles
Jacinta's Song
ARIA-winning pianist Andrea Keller, guitarist Steve Magnusson and percussionist Peter Neville join multi-saxophonist and composer Jenny Game-Lopata on Jacinta's Song, a set of original works for the Jenny Game Ensemble.
Members of Jenny Game Ensemble
Jenny Game-Lopata
"Game's tenor sax has a breathy silkiness, her soprano a rich sensuality ..." (Leon Gettler, The Age 'Green Guide') With improvisation qualifications from the Victorian College of the Arts and armed with a composition masters from Monash University, Jenny Game-Lopata is a formidable talent in the Melbourne jazz scene, performing her own works, playing soprano and tenor saxophones was well as leading her own ensemble.
Andrea Keller
Andrea Keller is an Australian jazz pianist and composer based in Melbourne. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, she is known for original ensemble writing and has won multiple ARIA Awards for Best Jazz Album.
Hope Csutoros
Composer and violinist Hope Csutoros is the founding performer of improvising quartet, DeFLOCKeD and is the principle violinist with the David Chesworth Ensemble.
Steve Magnusson
Steve Magnusson is one of Melbourne's most sought after guitarists, having appeared on numerous film scores, and performed with international artists the likes of Steve Coleman, Arthur Blythe, Enrico Rava, George Coleman Junior and Mike Stern.
Ian Wilmot
Bassist Ian Wilmot is an integral part of the freelance Melbourne music scene, performing with the Australian Pops Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Victoria and the Melbourne Theatre Company.
Poul Grage
Poul Grage freelances as a percussionist for jazz and folk groups appearing in venues across eastern Australia, including Jugularity, the Kostas Tsicaderis Ensemble (as featured on SBS Television) and Xristina.
Andrew O'Grady
Bassist Andrew O'Grady has had experience in a diverse range of musical styles, ranging from country and blues to jazz, contemporary composition and orchestal symphonies.
Peter Neville
Peter Neville is one of Australia's most accomplished percussion players. He has a particular interest in twentieth-century music and has worked extensively with ensembles including Elision, the David Chesworth Ensemble, the Southbank Ensemble, Jouissance, the Chronochromie Duo and Nadoya.