ROCHELLE SCORGIE
Bio//
The daughter of a professional musician, Rochelle was very lucky to be exposed to many different genres from a very young age, At the age of 9, Rochelle would take her father's jazz albums and secretly listen to them alone in her room.
After trying many different instruments and never feeling completely at home, she was eventually drawn to her naturally calling, composition. With a natural ear for improvisation and jazz harmony, Rochelle found herself writing very complex music from the get go and began garnering attention with the sophistication of her music considering her age and her minimal theoretical knowledge.
In May 2012, Rochelle made the top ten in the Jazz/Classical category for the nationwide MusicOz awards and was a finalist in the Australian song writing competition open category.
In 2013 she was accepted into the prestigious Sydney Conservatorium of Music for composition and was one of the first jazz composers to be accepted into the undergraduate classical course.
In 2014 her piece Sonic Memory was included in repertoire for the Australian army band Sydney, and in the same year was invited out of a world wide pool of composers to attend and write for the Atlantic Classical Music Festival in Maine, USA.
2015 Rochelle went onto to make finalist in the Worldwide composition competition for the Seattle Women's Jazz orchestra USA for her piece In Motion.
Since 2014 Rochelle has travelled multiple times to New York studying with some of the greatest composers and arrangers in the world including grammy winning Gil Goldstein & Mike Holober and has gained recognition from many respected artists including members of "The Roots".
In 2018 Rochelle began recording her debut EP at Sony Music Studios Sydney with the Rochelle Scorgie Jazz Orchestra. In 2019, her piece "Tribulation" was performed live by the Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra at the Earshot Jazz Festival in the USA.
2021, Rochelle was accepted into the New England Conservatory in Boston and awarded the prestigious Dean's Scholarship to complete MM Masters Jazz Composition.
In November 2021, Tribulation was selected to be featured in a International live-streamed group lesson with the legendary Jim McNeely at jazzcomposerspresent.com
That same year, Rochelle was awarded the SIMA Emerging Composer Mentorship & was commissioned to write a new original piece for SIMA.
In February 2022, It was announced that Rochelle made finalist for the APRA Professional Development Awards for the Jazz/Improvised Category.