Joe Chindamo OAM
piano & composer

Joe Chindamo is a musician who is not easily categorised!  

After forging an international career as a brilliant jazz pianist - collaborating with the genre’s leading  figures, such as Billy Cobham, the Brecker Brothers, Ray Brown and many others - producing 23 CDs,  and winning a slew of awards, Chindamo has, more recently, made an astonishing career about-face,  
and emerged as a unique and coveted voice in (contemporary) classical composition. He has received  commissions from the Australian String Quartet, the Omega Ensemble, Australian Chamber  Orchestra and the Queensland, Melbourne, Tasmanian and Adelaide symphony orchestras. 

In 2011, Joe co-founded boundary-crossing duo with the violinist Zoë Black and the pair has given  performances at all the major Australian festivals and received invitations to Italy (Spinacorona  Festival, Naples) and Carnegie Hall. The duo’s three CDs have all been nominated for ARIA awards  and their recording of Chindamo’s re-versioning of Bach’s Goldberg Variations has been critically  acclaimed. 

Joe’s orchestral commissions have included Fantaskatto (Queensland Symphony 2017), Concerto for  Drums and Orchestra (Melbourne Symphony Orch. 2018), This House (London, 2018), Concerto for  Orchestra (Tasmania, 2021). In May 2022, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra gave the premiere of  Ligeia – Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra, which has seen performances by its dedicatee (Colin  Prichard), Jonathan Ramsay (Berlin Philharmonic) and Peter Moore (London Symphony) in Adelaide,  Melbourne and Dublin. His Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, written for Emma McGrath and the  Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, received its premiere in October 2023 at the Federation Concert  Hall in Hobart.  

In 2022, Joe was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for his services to music and the  performing arts in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.