Harry Mitchell & Allira Wilson
W.A. Jazz Composers in Concert
WA Music Week
Event Start Date & TIme: August 8, 2026 12:00
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| Seated General Entry | 77 | $25.00 | ||
| Seated Student Entry | 10 | $20.00 | ||
| Seated Duke/Duchess | 4 | $0.00 |
Doors 12pm
Show 1pm
The duo of Harry Mitchell and Allira Wilson draws on a longstanding musical partnership within the Australian jazz scene, resulting in performances marked by ease, intuition, and deep mutual trust. In addition to reworking classic repertoire, they perform original music that brings together sophisticated jazz harmony with a contemporary aesthetic – open forms, subtle rhythmic textures, and a refined lyrical voice.
Harry Mitchell
Perth jazz pianist Harry Mitchell was still in his teens the time he played with Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. Since then, the prolific Mitchell has released six albums under his own name, all with original compositions of his. He was named Young Australian Jazz Musician of the Year at the 2017 Australian Bell Jazz Awards. The following year he won the West Australian Music (WAM) award for Best Pianist. As well, he carried off the WAM Best Jazz Song award in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
Harry has played in the Perth International Jazz Festival, Sydney Con Jazz Festival, Melbourne Jazz Festival, the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues and the Ubud Village Jazz Festival in Bali. Harry was selected as a finalist in the Wangaratta Jazz Festival’s 2021 National Jazz Awards’ piano competition. He has backed a range of artists from Australia’s Kate Ceberano to American saxophonist George Garzone, and renowned vocalist Veronica Swift.
Harry was recently the ABC Jazz Artist in Residence and you can hear his solo recordings from that time here.
Harry studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Masters in Composition. This recognition of the importance of composing to having an original voice, was reflected in Harry’s first album, released when he was twenty-one. Harry has devised his own approach to composing, deciding first on various musical decisions, such as the harmonic movements, form, and motivic development, before writing a note. It is a method of writing that he continues to refine.
Harry leads a number of bands including the Harry Mitchell Quintet, his standards band TrioTrio, with Vanderwal and bassist Karl Florisson which has released four albums, with a live album release featuring saxophonist James Sandon in the pipeline. There is also his country music infused trio, Quiet Country with Vanderwal and guitarist Harry Winton that plays originals and covers; and there was his acclaimed Paul Simon project with singer Allira Wilson. Unlike America where jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, another influence has been hailed for his excursions into country music, Harry laments that country music has a certain stigma in Australia. But he is not interested in chasing what is popular. His guiding principle is “striving for the artistic merit of the thing you are doing.’’
Allira Wilson
Allira Wilson is one of Australia’s most exciting and sought after jazz and contemporary vocalists. An Australian Jazz Bell Award winner, a twice Freedman Fellowship nominee, a WAM (West Australian Music) Best Vocalist Nominee, she has worked with notable artists and ensembles such as Jamie Oehlers, Kate Ceberano, Jim McNeely, Gian Slater, Guy Sebastian, Barney McAll, Invenio and WASO. Wilson recently recorded the highly acclaimed album ‘I am Like the Rain’ (5 stars Barry O’Sullivan), released on ABC Music in 2020. She is featured on recordings such as composer Alice Humphries’ ‘ECILA’, the Rick Webster Project, Freddie Grigsons ‘Duos’ and Barney McAll and Gian Slater’s Collobaration ‘Global Intimacy’. Wilson released her album ‘Rise and Fall’ in 2014. ‘Wilson took out best Australian jazz vocal award at the 2014 Bell Awards and this debut-album signals the arrival of an important new voice’ (John McBeath, The Weekend Australian, 4 stars).
She continues to work regularly in Australia’s jazz venues and is a mainstay among the Jazz Festival circuit right across Australia. She has performed at the Perth International Jazz Festival, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Jazz Festival and Melbourne’s White Night Festival. Wilson performed at the Brisbane International Jazz Festival in Oct 2023, and Sydney Con Jazz Festival in June 2024 launching her second album with Harry Mitchell’s Quiet Country ‘Sadness or Euphoria’.
This event is proudly supported by WAM as part of the official 2026 WA Music Week Program.
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