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Transcendent Arc | Sandy Evans | TEDxSydney

3,032 views · Published 10 July 2015 · 6:00 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Transcendent Arc is a guided improvisation that explores and celebrates the poetic, calming and uplifting beauty of breath and melody.

Sandy Evans OAM is an internationally renowned ARIA award winning saxophonist, composer and music researcher with a passion for improvisation and new music. 

She has played with and written for some of the most important groups in Australian jazz since the early 1980s and has toured extensively in Australia, Europe, Canada and Asia. 

In 2014 Sandy received her PhD from Macquarie University for research in Carnatic jazz intercultural music, and a Churchill Fellowship to continue her research in India. Her latest CD, 'Kapture', a fusion of jazz and Indian music, is a tribute to South African freedom fighter Ahmed Kathrada.

In 'Transcendent Arc' she is joined by two of Australia's leading wind players, James Greening, pocket trumpet and trombone, and Boyd, contrabass clarinet, to explore and celebrate the beauty of breath and melody.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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