Harry Coulson is a Melbourne-based guitarist, composer and songwriter whose distinctive style comes as much from punk and blues as it does from the jazz idiom. He graduated from the VCA in 2010 with a Bachelor of Music Performance and completed his honours in the same at Monash University in 2012 as well as attending the summer jazz courses at NYU in the same year.
His debut album released...
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Harry Coulson is a Melbourne-based guitarist, composer and songwriter whose distinctive style comes as much from punk and blues as it does from the jazz idiom. He graduated from the VCA in 2010 with a Bachelor of Music Performance and completed his honours in the same at Monash University in 2012 as well as attending the summer jazz courses at NYU in the same year.
His debut album released in 2014 was the essential album of the week on John Carvers “Across The Tracks” program on 3PBS and was awarded a Creative Victoria Grant for presentation costs in 2014. In 2015 he was the recipient of a TD Jazz Scholarship to attend the International Workshops in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre in Canada where he studied and performed with renowned artists such as Miles Okazaki, Ingrid Jensen, Mark Turner, Vijay Iyer, Harish Raghavan, Becca Stevens and Tyshawn Sorey.
His self-led, self-managed, self-produced and self-funded blues outfit Harry Coulsons Blue Dogs released their self titled album in 2016 and have graced the stages of the Bendigo Blues and Roots Festival, Eltham Jazz and Blues Festival and the Turning Wave Festival and were the backing band for Adam Hills at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Opening Gala.
He has performed across Australia at events including the St Kilda Festival, Mornington Jazz Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, High Street Festival, and the Leaps and Bounds Festival and he toured to remote communities in the Kimberly and Pilbara regions with the Brad Martin Project in 2014. He was a regular presenter for Music Maestros on ABC Statewide Drive with Nicole Chvastek from 2015 - 2023 and he is currently on the Castlemaine Jazz Festival Committee of which he was Vice President between 2020-2023.
He currently resides in the Yarra Valley with his wife, dog and three chickens as well as a flock of King Parrots who often show up and demand treats..
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