Johanne Druitt

"Original music from some of WA's finest younger jazz players, and jazz minds...minds open to non-jazz musics too" - Doug Spencer, Weekend Planet, ABC Radio National ............................................................ .... ............................................................ ........................................... .....Began her musical training with the piano at age 4, taking up classical guitar at age 10. She attended the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School, and was awarded Dux and a Premier's Award in Music Performance. She moved to Western Australia in 2002 to complete a Bachelor of Music Performance (Jazz) at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She received the prestigious Bob Wyllie Scholarship for the most outstanding Jazz Graduate 2004, and graduated with First Class Honours in 2005.She currently gigs around Perth and is a member of the Mace Francis Orchestra (MFO) and Mat Jodrell All-Star Big Band.____UPDATE: errr, actually, no she's not. After a nice few months in Berlin, she is living and studying in Luzern, Switzerland in an effort to get her shit together and learn to play the guitar properly!! Otherwise, she will have to write children's storybooks for a living. She is also eating some very nice Swiss cheese and trying to understand Schwyzerduetsch. One day she will own a fondue set.