Elliott Dalgleish

Saxophones, bass clarinet

photo credit: Matthew Stanton

LLB (UQ) 2007, M.Mus. (GU) 2001, BA (Music) (UQ) 1998, B.Bus. (QUT) 1991

Elliott Dalgleish has performed and recorded with many internationally renowned improvisers and jazz artists such as Misha Mengelberg, Steve Lacy, Shoji Hano, Cecil Taylor, Barre Phillips, Palle Mikkelborg, Karaikudi R.Mani, Odean Pope, Henri Chopin, Eugene Chadbourne, Graeme Jennings, Simone De Haan, Michael Kieran Harvey, Christian Wojtowicz, Roger Dean, Barney Mcall, Mike Nock, Roger Frampton, Walter Lampe, Tom Vincent and Paul Grabowsky; and performed as a soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Alpha Ensemble, Electra String Quartet, AustraLYSIS, Sydney Theatre Company, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Australian Art Orchestra, Pearl Black’s Madam Bones Brothel, Queensland Theatre Company, Tony Hobbs Big Band Theory, Artisans Workshop Quartet, Micronesia New Music Forum, Terra Australis Saxophone Quartet; The Interactive Performance Space Quartet, Contemporary Music Collective with Rees Archibald, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Queensland Orchestra and The Mute Canary Project.

Elliott’s international study has included private and group lessons, master classes, performances, open rehearsals including discussions on form, structure, art of interpretation, pedagogy, new media and performance with Rocco Parisi b/cl Genoa, Italy; Daniel Kientzy sax. Paris, France; Jans Guns b/cl. Flemish Radio Orchestra; Karl-Heinz Steffens cl. Berlin Philharmonic; Guy Deplus cl. Paris Opera; Michel Arrigon cl., b/cl. Paris Conservatoire; Claude Delange sax. Paris Conservatoire; David Murry sax. World Saxophone Quartet NY; Bill Evans sax. NY; Bob Brookmeyer (arranging/composition) NY.

Elliott’s national study has included private lessons with Tony Hobbs (saxophone); Margery Smith (saxophone); Sue Newsome (bass clarinet); James Kortum (flute); Ashok Roy (Indian Vocals).

Elliott holds degrees in four disciplines – law (LLB UQ, GDLP QUT), business (BBus QUT), music (MMus GU) and arts (BA UQ) and has worked at all levels of education (tertiary, vocational, secondary, primary) as a lecturer, teacher, educator and administrator (at UT, NRCAC, SCU, BGS from 1993-2006) conducting workshops and master classes on improvisation for UQ, QUT, GU, US, VCA, UM and UA.

He won the National Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1995 and the Optus National Jazz Travelling Scholarship in 1998. Elliott has received over 30 grants from the Australia Council and State Art funding bodies, for his arts projects nationally, and has been commercially released on over 35 CDs nationally and internationally. He has toured to over 40 countries but loves to return to Byron Bay, his home town, whenever he can.

He presently works as a Barrister-at-Law, board member of NMA Ltd, ATF Ltd, EBCC, TWSQ and saxophonist.

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