Spotlight on Sandy Evans
Dr Sandy Evans OAM is an acclaimed saxophonist, composer, and educator, known for her work in jazz and improvisation. Active since the 1980s, she has played with leading Australian jazz ensembles and toured globally. Evans leads the Sandy Evans Trio and Sextet, and co-led groups like GEST8 and Clarion Fracture Zone. She is a member of Mara!, The catholics, Ten Part Invention and austraLYSIS.
Her notable compositions include Testimony (2013), a work about Charlie Parker, and Sky, Let the Rain Fall for Taikoz. Evans has received numerous awards, including an OAM, an Australia Council Fellowship, ARIA Awards, and the Bell Award for Jazz Musician of the Year. She holds a PhD and has taught at several prestigious institutions. As an advocate for gender diversity in jazz, she is a founding director of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award and inaugurated the Jazz Improvisation Course for Young Women.
Our Local Creatives
Each month we showcase some of the talented people who live and work in our community, exploring the diversity of artistic and creative practices on the Northern Beaches.
Our creative community
The Northern Beaches is home to a higher than average percentage of artists, creatives and cultural workers.
Our local creative community generated $1,16m in economic output and $790 million in value added for the Northern Beaches Council area in 2018/19 (4.2% of Greater Sydney's total Cultural and Creative Sector value). Our artists and creatives are the drivers of a vibrant local economy.
The Northern Beaches creative sector has the 2nd highest number of jobs in NSW for specialised design and photographic services, book and magazine publishing and arts education and the 3rd highest number of jobs in NSW for architects, artists, musicians, writers and performers. Our creative economy supported 7,050 local jobs (6.5% of total jobs in the LGA) and provided employment for 13,207 residents (8.5% of all employed residents) in 2018/19.
Find out more about our local Northern Beaches cultural and creative sector.
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