Louisa Williamson presents music from her latest album, Groundwork, plus more recent compositions.
Louisa Williamson is a saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger based in Wellington. Since completing a Masters of Music in Composition in 2020, she has released two albums of original music (What Dreams May Come and Groundwork). In 2023 Louisa won the APRA Best Jazz Composition Award for her piece Dream Within A Dream, and in 2024 she received a composition commission from the Wellington Jazz Festival and headlined the festival with the new work, The Chasm Where We Fall Into Each Other.
Louisa has worked with L.A.B, Bret McKenzie, AJA, The Rodger Fox Big Band, Royal NZ Air Force Band, Trinity Roots and Lord Echo. In 2016 she was the first New Zealander to successfully audition for the JMI Jazz World Orchestra (consisting of the best young jazz musicians from around the world, aged 18-25), touring Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croatia.
Featuring: Louisa Williamson (saxophone), Callum Allardice (guitar), Daniel Hayles (piano), Johnny Lawrence (bass), Max Sheehan (drums).