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Eamon Dilworth

Eamon Dilworth, whose trumpet “sometimes carries a blast of the raucous vibrancy associated with Balkan Gypsies or Spanish bullfight bands” (Sydney Morning Herald) has established himself as a trumpeter, creative musician & manager with regular performances across Europe, Australia & New Zealand alongside musicians from the far reaches of the genre-spectrum from improvised to mainstream-pop music.

His collaborations extend from leading Tiny Hearts & The Dilworths, across to performing alongside seasoned jazz players Dale Barlow, James Muller & The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, his contemporaries Paul Derricott, Steve Barry, Dave Jackson & Alex Boneham, Internationally as a guest with Nigel Kennedy (UK) and outside of jazz with Guy Sebastian with Lupe Fiasco, Jessica Mauboy, The Beautiful Girls & Caravana Sun. These have lead to performances at prestigious venues :: Porgy & Bess (Vienna Austria), George Enescu Museum (Bucharest, Romania), The Ellington (Perth), Sydney Opera House, Bennetts Lane (Melbourne) Festivals :: North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreax Jazz Festival, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, Splendour in the Grass, Arrifana Surf Festival (Portugal) TV :: X Factor Grand Final, Sunrise, ARIAS (Jess Mauboy) Today Show (Guy Sebastian)

Eamon has released three albums as a leader & co-leader: The Dilworths (2009) Tiny Hearts – Alluvium (2014) VIATA (2018)

Education :: Bachelor of Music (Jazz) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Private study with :: Laurie Frink, Brian Lynch, Lew Soloff, Ambrose Akinmusire and Jim Rotundi,Phil Slater, Warwick Alder, Scott Tinkler, Judy Bailey, Mike Nock, Bob Coassin Dale Barlow, Dave Douglas, Avishai Cohen, Kenny Werner, John Taylor & Lionel Loueke.

Eamon’s musical journey began in 1995 learning trumpet and later brief pursuits in Violin, French Horn and Double Bass. From 15 he started performing professionally at Sydney Jazz Club Soup Plus and various venues around Sydney. Involvement in The Australian All Star Big Band, Pan Pacific jazz Camps (now Jazz Workshop) and the Pan Pacific Big band he had opportunities to tour New Zealand, Europe and America offering long lasting inspiration through seeing many of the jazz greats at Monterey, North Sea and Montreux Jazz Festivals.

Currently performs with Tijuana Cartel, The Low Down Riders, The Aints, Mariachi Australia & the Old School Funk & Groove Band.

Awards

Awards & Honours :: – Nominationed for the 2010 and 2011 Young Australian of the Year in the Jazz Bell Awards – 2011 Siena Jazz Scholarship, – 2010 Big Brother Movement Scholarship for studies in London, – Top scholarship from the Umbria Jazz Clinics to Berklee College of Music – 2007 James Morrison Scholarship finalist.


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Album Review

Eamon Dilworth: Viata

Read "Viata" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


From its Romanian orgin, Viata translates to “Life." It is the new, independently produced album from Eamon Dilworth and his nameless quintet. Trumpeter Dilworth is not well-known in the U.S. but has received numerous awards in his native Australia. He has studied with some top brass talent including Lew Soloff, Ambrose Akinmusire, Dave Douglas and Avishai Cohen, and has recorded two previous albums as a leader/co-leader. Pianist Alister Spence is the most recognizable member of the group, having ...

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Trumpeter Eamon Dilworth's Australian / New Zealand Album Launch Tour Runs From July 26th to August 3rd

Trumpeter Eamon Dilworth's Australian / New Zealand Album Launch Tour Runs From July 26th to August 3rd

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Sydney trumpeter Eamon Dilworth (Tijuana Cartel, Ed Kuepper, Low Down Riders) is touring his latest Jazz album Viata across Australia & New Zealand July 26th-August 3rd with Alister Spence & Paul Derricott. Special guests in each city will include Julien Wilson, James Muller & Roger Manins. Eamon is best known for his previous albums with The Dilworths (“Introducing") & Tiny Hearts (“Alluvium”) and has performed with Dale Barlow, James Muller, The Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra, Nigel Kennedy, Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy ...

"Beautifully atmospheric" -Lloyd Swanton (The Necks)

Tiny Hearts ALLUVIUM (alluviumrecords.com/Birdland) 3.5/5

One of the wonders of collective music making is the way a composition conceived by one person in isolation is interpreted, filtered and transformed by the assembled pool of sounds, experiences, muscles, emotions, imagination, expertise and aesthetic sense. It happens in rock bands and orchestras, but the process is magnified when improvisation is extensively involved. All five members of Sydney's Tiny Hearts have contributed pieces to this debut album, yet what hits home is not so much the diversity of compositional approaches as the cohesion of the group interplay in realising them

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Viata

Self Released
2018

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Introducing The...

Jazzgroove Records
2009

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Viata

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