Brian Brown OAM

Brian has performed as a soloist and with his own ensemble since the mid 1950’s throughout Australia and in Scandinavia, USA, Japan, UK, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Brunei and Germany.   He plays only original music and his instruments include soprano and tenor saxophones, flutes, synthesizers, panpipes and a leather bowhorn designed by the late Garry Greenwood.  He is currently playing a Yamaha WX5 and exploring the tonal and structural possibilities of the Access Virus Synthesiser.
Brian has released Ten LP’s and 18 CD’s and in 1993 was awarded the Order of Australia for services to the performing arts as a jazz performer, educator and composer.  He founded the Improvisation Studies course a the Victorian College of the Arts where he taught from 1978 until his retirement in 1998.

Scott Dunbabin

Scott studied Fine Arts at RMIT University before beginning his career in music.  Since the 1980’s he has performed with many Australian ensembles in genres as diverse as Ten Apples on Top, Bob Sedergreen’s Blues on the Boil, and Judy Jacques’s Wild Dog Ensemble.  Since 1998 he has been a member of the Brian Brown ensemble as well as a duettist with Brian.  Scott has revolutionised the sound and role of the traditional acoustic bass with the design and construction of his five-string SD1 and, more recently, his six string SD2.

Ros McMillan

Ros has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne, where she majored in piano and composition, and a Master of Education degree from La Trobe University.  She is currently a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University, an appointment that followed her retirement  as Head of Music  Education at the University where she taught improvisation  and classroom music method.  Ros completed a doctorate in 1996 with  a study that examined the development of a personal voice in musical improvisation and has played keyboards in the Brian Brown Trio since 2000.  She  has published five school music texts that are widely  used throughout Australia and New Zealand.