The Anita Schwabe Quartet plays Greens Blues and Wings
Anita Schwabe explores original compositions of forest greens, iridescent blues and a flutter of wings.
Anita Schwabe is a jazz pianist and composer currently tutoring at the New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī, Wellington. She has studied both here in New Zealand and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in the Netherlands, Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada and Berklee College of Music in the USA.
In 2018 she won the APRA award for best jazz composition Spring Tide that was released on her CD Eat Your Greens featuring Ron Samsom, Cameron McArthur and Roger Manins. She was also a finalist in the 2021 APRA jazz awards with August Augmentation.
In 2020 Anita was a recipient of the Wellington Jazz Festival Commission and wrote a suite of music A Snapshot of Wellington with photography of Wellington by Saskia van Dijk accompanying the performance.
Anita will be playing a selection of her original compositions with a quartet featuring Callum Allardice on guitar, Lance Philip on drums and Rory Macartney on bass.
