Michelle Nicolle
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- Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)
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Michelle Nicolle is celebrated as Australia’s finest female jazz singer. An experienced composer, singer, band leader and passionate teacher of her craft, Michelle Nicolle has forged a reputation both nationally and internationally as a formidable and creative jazz vocalist-musician. Over the last 26 years she has performed throughout Europe and Asia with highlights including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, the Prague Jazz Festival and USA venues The Blue Building, (NYC), JazzVox (Seattle), Jazz Lounge Live (San Diego), Kulak’s Woodshed (LA), The Black Cat (San Francisco). She’s been featured soloist with Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and also with Kurt Elling and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Her ability to get right to the heart of a song, whilst being a masterful improviser with the technique to match any instrumentalist has been recognised with a Bell Award (Australian jazz vocal album of the year), Mo Award(s), National Jazz Award winner and 3-time A.R.I.A Finalist (Australia’s ‘Grammy’ equivalent) and 2024 Music Victoria Award “Best Jazz Work’ for The Bach Project. Releasing 11 distinct albums including Michelle’s most recent recording project, The Silent Wish is an adventurous duo album recorded in LA featuring legendary guitarist, Larry Koonse.