Ilaria Crociani

CONNECTING THE DOTS (ABC JAZZ 2023

AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2024-2025 (with the support of Creative Australia)

Currently touring in Australia with the support of Creative Australia to present her latest work for

the ABC JAZZ, Ilaria Crociani is an award winning lyricist and composer who migrated to

Australia in 2013. In her first appearance at Odessa At Leaver’s Hotel, Ilaria will perform pieces from her latest recording “Connecting The Dots”, a concept album of original vocal jazz songs inspired by significant women of Australian history and beyond.

Connecting The Dots” is not just a simple collection of songs. It is also an inspirational anthologyof nine stories, all with a unique female character at their centre. The album weaves together

narratives of hardship, vulnerability, resoluteness and redemption to paint an uplifting picture of resilience and hope.

With all lyrics by Ilaria Crociani, this intensely coloured repertoire derives from the juxtaposition of

Ilaria’s compositional style to the pens of her longtime collaborators Mirko Guerrini (sax, duduk) and Niko Schäuble (drums) and the inimitable and sophisticated voice of legendary pianist Paul Grabowsky – all of whom will be with her on stage.

Ilaria has worked with artists such as Tony Gould A.M, John Griffith A.O, Geoff Hughes, Ben Robertson and managed her jazz quintet Radiosuccessi. Since 2018, she has been the soloist singer of Exstasy Morricone, a septet showcasing a monographic collection of psychedelic compositions authored in the ‘70s by Ennio Morricone. A semi-finalist with her original compositions in the 2020 and 2023 International Songwriting Competition (USA), Ilaria is a recipient of the “2021 ABC Classic and Jazz Composer Commissioning Fund and a 2021 Arts Grant from the City of

Melbourne. In 2022 on commission by the ABC Kids Listen she produced “Evergreen” a small collection of children’s songs with bilingual lyrics in Italian and English.