Kristin Berardi

LABEL: Pinnacles Music

At just 28 years of age, Kristin Berardi has already performed extensively at jazz festivals and jazz clubs throughout Australia and overseas. She was the winner of the 2006 International Jazz Voice Competition held at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and appeared at Montreux in July 2007.

Born in Koumala, Queensland, Kristin completed her musical studies at the Brisbane Conservatorium. Since graduating she has performed at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival in a live appearance on ABC Radio National with the West End Composers’ Collective, and as a featured soloist \alongside pop legend Chrissy Amphlett in Women in Voice 13.

As a recording artist Kristin has worked in New York with American jazz piano legend Kenny Werner and trombonist Jim Pugh, and in Australia with James Sherlock, Mike Nock and James Muller.

Kristin lectures in jazz voice at the Australian National University in Canberra and has held the position of guest lecturer in jazz studies at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music for the past five years. Kristin’s debut duo release with master guitarist James Sherlock was short listed for Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album at the  renowned Bell Awards and their latest CD “If You Were There” will be released at the Judith Wright Centre on Saturday 27 June.

For more details, visit http://www.pinnaclesmusic.com.au