Quentin Bryan Angus is an Australian jazz guitarist.

Career

Quentin Bryan Angus is from country South Australia.^[1]

He holds a PhD, a Master of Music degree, and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Elder Conservatorium at the University of Adelaide.^[1]

Career

Angus has produced two independently released albums, Retrieval Structure (2011)^[2] and Perception (2013).^{[citation needed]}

His quintet has performed at Jazz Hoeilaart in Belgium and Europafest in Romania.^{[citation needed]}

He has written three transcription books of Gilad Hekselman's Improvisations from his albums: Split-Life; Words Unspoken; and 'Hearts Wide Open' were published by Mel Bay, JazzHeaven, the NZMiC music journal. He has also presented research papers on his transcriptions of Hekselman and John Abercrombie at music conferences in New Zealand and Australia.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours

Angus received the Helpmann Academy's Keith Michell Award^[3] in 2010, The first time a jazz musician had ever won the award.^{[citation needed]}

He was the inaugural winner of the APRA Art Music Award for Excellence In Jazz in 2012.^[4]

In 2013, he was awarded the Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship for Performing Arts.^[5]

He won Downbeat Jazz Awards for Jazz Soloist in 2012 and 2014,^[6] and for Jazz Composition in 2011, 2012, and 2014.^[7]

He participated in the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead residency at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC in 2011 and 2013.^[8]

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