2025 Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival Opening Night features fearless musical innovator and GRAMMY-winning pianist, Hiromi, widely regarded as one of Japan’s most extraordinary artists. Renowned for her technical mastery and her remarkable ability to reimagine genre and form, Hiromi erases the lines between jazz and classical, taking audiences on…

Paris-based Australian jazz vocalist Hetty Kate presents songs from her latest release, a sparkling homage to the most effervescent of seasons — Spring. This album marks the first chapter in Jazz in Four Seasons, a globe-spanning four-album journey through the calendar year. Recorded in Prague with four of the city’s…

Immerse yourself in a bold cross-continental collaboration as Claudia Doffinger, acclaimed German pianist, composer and conductor makes her Australian debut at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Presented in partnership with SIMA as part of the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, this performance is the culmination of Doffinger’s creative residency at…

Pharos (The Sydney Women’s Jazz Collective) is a 10-piece powerhouse showcasing some of Australia’s finest emerging and established jazz artists — including multiple winners of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award and Art Music Awards. With a dynamic six-piece horn section and four-piece rhythm section, Pharos blends the drive of a big…

Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter-flutist Melanie Charles is set to stun Sydney audiences on Sunday, October 26th, in a headline performance for the 2025 Sydney International Women's Jazz Festival at Mary’s Underground. Charles, renowned for her genre-bending style of jazz, soul and R&B, mixed with electronics, samples and hints of her Haitian roots,…