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Tim O’Dwyer is currently programme coordinator of the jazz stream at The School of Contemporary Music LASALLESIA College of the Arts Singapore

Tim O'Dwyer is considered one of Australia's most innovative and accomplished saxophone player /composers. Having studied with improviser/ visionary Evan Parker and composer/ improviser Richard Barrett in the mid 90's he has performed throughout Europe, US, Asia and Australia and collaborated with among others Liza Lim, KK Null, Lucy Orta, Tetuzi Akiyama, Paul Grabowsky, Bobby Previte, John Butcher, Malaysian composer Saidah Rastam and Japanese sculpture Katsushige Nakahashi. His current projects include his free jazz unit the Tim O'Dwyer Trio and his acclaimed improvised solo performances. Tim has been a member of Australia's leading contemporary music group Elision Ensemble since 1994 composing new works for the group from fully notated scores to large scale installation/ improvised works. Tim has premiered many new works for the saxophone while performing with Elision in the context of site specific installation, opera and the concert hall. He is a founding member of Melbourne's avante rock group bucketrider and has composed and directed in collaboration with the group countless festival and pub shows, celebrated tributes to Sun Ra and John Coltrane, collaborations with Melbourne's Dance Works and Libra Contemporary Ensemble and released 4 c.d.'s on Dr Jim's Records.

NEWS 2007

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Singapore
--March 4 National University of Singapore ARTS FESTIVAL “Broken River and Beyond”
--March 9 MOSAIC FESTIVAL (Concourse Esplanade)
--March 10 PAGE ONE (secret promo gig)
--March 12 MOSAIC FESTIVAL “Stellar Regions” a tribute to John Coltrane
--March 15 MOSAIC FESTIVAL (Concourse Esplanade)

Collaboration
Elision Contemporary Ensemble
“Theatre of Dawn” by Italian composer Maurizio Pisati
--June 1st Judith Wright Centre Brisbane Australia
“What Remains” - A collaboration between UK improviser/ composer John Butcher and TOD with the musicians of the Elision Ensemble
--July 20,21,22. Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane, Australia.

BROKEN RIVER
Debut CD release by the Tim O'Dwyer Trio The 8 tracks composed by TOD are mostly named after places and objects found in central Victoria, Australia (the place of TOD’s birth) cover a wide emotional and stylistic range. The distinctive features of the music have been described by Sydney journalist John Clare: “There is a dry and even stark quality to the music, which takes off with terrific energy, O'Dwyer's intensely driven alto saxophone leading the trio through some rapid, precise rhythmic scrambles and hurtling releases. On other tracks, “Thomas sets off some beautiful high overtones on rods of metal pushed through the strings of his bass and Moore evokes for me at least the brittle intricacy of dry bush on his kit, while O'Dwyer made some cries and squarks and high thin squeels that seemed like harsh birdsong and stinging insects. All this sometimes leading into slow, powerfully deliberate stomp rhythms. And through it all a stringent lyricism and a kind of objectified nostalgia.” listen....