Olivia Chindamo

Australian vocalist, Olivia Chindamo is a Melbourne based musician who is best known for her natural and effortless ability to improvise or 'scat'. As the 2016 Bell Award winner for Young Australian Jazz Artist of the Year, Olivia has firmly cemented her place in Australia’s flourishing jazz scene and is now being recognised internationally as the result of her acceptance to and attendance of the prestigious Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music 2016.

Her win of the Generations In Jazz Vocal Scholarship at James Morrison’s GIJ Festival back in 2014 marked the beginning of her success and brought her voice into the spotlight, quickly making her one of Australia’s most sought after jazz vocalists. Olivia has since recorded and released her debut album Keep an Eye on Spring (2015) and has performed numerous sold out shows in her home town with her various bands and projects as well as all around Australia with none other than James Morrison himself. 

Often affectionately labelled as a 'musician’s singer', at 25 she has already earned the respect of many of her peers and has performed on stages of all sizes, including Bennetts Lane Jazz Club, The Basement (Sydney), Melbourne’s iconic Hamer Hall and several large scale festivals and concerts, including Sydney’s Twilight at Taronga Zoo Summer Series (2015 and 2016) and the Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival 2016. Olivia has studied locally and overseas, including summer short courses in both Italy and New York where she met and received high commendations from jazz greats such as the late John Taylor (UK) and Sheila Jordan (USA).

As well as fronting her own bands, Olivia often appears as a guest vocalist with James Morrison’s Big Band and performs and collaborates with many other Australian bands and projects.

Olivia’s understanding of harmony is second nature and makes each of her performances uniquely rich and spontaneous.