Rafael Karlen Quintet featuring Jo Lawry 2022

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As part of a National Tour, Rafael Karlen, Jo Lawry, Steve Barry, Brett Hirst, and James Waples perform music from Equally True, an upcoming release bringing together an all-star ensemble of highly acclaimed Australian improvising musicians.

Rafael Karlen is an award-winning composer, saxophonist, and arranger. He has continued to build a reputation as one of the more creative, exciting, and surprising musicians on the Australian music scene. Rafael's music has been performed by small jazz groups, rock, and pop ensembles, big bands through to chamber orchestras, and string quartets. He has performed throughout Australia and New Zealand, and in Canada, Cambodia, England, Scotland, and Sweden.

Awards and recognition include an ARIA Nomination, a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship, Composer-in-Residence in the Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, an ABC Jazz Commission, finalist in the Australian Jazz Bell Awards, nominations for the Freedman Fellowship from the Music Council of Australia, and an Australian Art Music Award for Excellence in Jazz with the Berardi/Foran/Karlen Trio.