Episode #86 - Adrian Kelly

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trumpeter Adrian Kelly has built an international career as a multi-faceted musician; performing, recording, and writing pop, classical, and jazz music. Adrian is currently working towards a</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">PhD at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">where he researches adapting acting methods to trumpet playing and as part of that research he has released a set of etudes available from QPress Music. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adrian’s jazz quartet has performed in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia and his jazz compositions have been performed and recorded by artists around the world. His quartet has released two albums in 2020. The first, "Visions", is a suite of pieces for improvising quartet written to accompany the visual </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">art of Robert John Kelly (Adrian's father). The second album, Cry, "Wolf!", is an album of music featuring </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">an artificial intelligence 'improviser' along with an electric jazz quartet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adrian’s freelance playing includes being a member of Motown legend Bobby Taylors band, international tours with Chinese pop superstar Jacky Cheung, as well as other eastern and western artists such as Hugh Jackman, Ray Charles, Shirley Bassey, and The Four Tops. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In his capacity as a classical trumpeter, Adrian held the position of principal trumpet </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">with The City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong from 2011 - 2015, has performed as </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">principal trumpet with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and continues to perform regularly </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">with the Perth Symphony Orchestra, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and the</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">WA Philharmonic.</span></p> <p><span style="font-w