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Jens Hoppe has a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium. He has worked as a free-lance guitarist since 1987 playing jazz, blues, pop, latin, R&B, funk and contemporary music. He has performed extensively in Australia and has toured Germany. 
He has been teaching guitar for 25 years and joined the staff at the Wollongong Conservatorium in 2002. |
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Nick is one of the most skilled and versatile musicians on the Sydney scene today, greatly in demand in the Jazz, Latin, Funk and Soul fields. His rare blend of groove and swing, along with a love of Latin music, has led him to develop a unique sound that sits comfortably, whether backing a solo vocalist, swinging hard in a trio or working with an eighteen-piece Big Band. 
Nick is also a dynamic and experienced educator, having worked at the Wollongong Conservatorium teaching Jazz Piano and Ensembles over the last eight years. He has also been involved with coaching and accompanying singers at the Sydney Conservatorium Open Academy and other workshops, most recently with the master American singer and vocal teacher Robert Edwin.
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Mike Majkowski has a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Studies) from the Sydney Conservatorium and has also studied classical double bass with Alex Henery (principal bass with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra). He is one of the new breed of creative musicians currently emerging on the Australia jazz scene. 
Mike is a gifted jazz bassist with an active interest in a wide spectrum of contemporary music. He is a founding member of the splinter orchestra (recently seen on ABC TV’s new music program SET) and is much in demand by his peers and is first choice bassist for a number of leading Sydney groups. |
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Alex Masso holds a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) from the Sydney Conservatorium. He is one of Sydney's emerging jazz & improvising drummers, and is becoming increasingly involved in contemporary music in Australia. His work with Trio Apoplectic has contributed to an interest in touring and collaborative projects. Along with other Sydney based groups such as The Splinter Orchestra, The Vampires and a duo with Peter Farrar, Alex is currently involved in interstate collaborations with pianist Marc Hannaford and the groups Quarantine and S.A.P. He has also had the opportunity to work with Australian jazz legends Bernie McGann, Judy Bailey and Scott Tinkler, and in April 2008 with American trumpeter and creative music veteran Wadada Leo Smith.  Through his interest in creating and maintaining opportunities for live music he has become involved with Jazzgroove, the NOW now, the Illawarra Improvised Music Association and Wollongong Conservatorium as well as starting two festivals - ConVerge (2006) and the Wollongong Youth Jazz Festival (2008). Alex is also the events co-ordinator for the Conservatorium. |
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Nick Garbett holds a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Nick is one of Australia’s rising star jazz trumpeters and recently performed in New York. 
Nick, who also writes music for bands such as The Vampires and The Strides, has toured extensively in Australia and New Zealand and has been teaching at the Wollongong Conservatorium since 2006. |
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