RESONANCE
NATIONAL TOUR DATES | OCTOBER 2026
While there were moments of propulsion and intensity, the overall mood of the evening was one of intimacy, restraint and – yes – resonance, with all four artists focused on listening, responding and sharing.
JESSICA NICHOLAS, THE AGE ★★★★
Each piece contained a structured section where Berardi interpreted the lyrics, her gorgeously expressive voice alighting on each word with grace and tenderness, and a free section where Barnes offered an improvised response to the poem in wordless sounds and instinctive gestures.
JESSICA NICHOLAS, THE AGE
Saxophonist Sandy Evans OAM and pianist Andrea Keller release Resonance on Friday 18 September 2026. The album grows out of their long-running duo and adds two singers, Kristin Berardi and Jenny Barnes, who answer the same texts in opposite ways. An eight-date national tour follows in October, from Adelaide to Wangaratta.
Resonance began as a conversation between Evans and Keller about what it takes to keep a creative life going across decades while caring for family, raising children, teaching and mentoring, and pushing against the glass ceiling women still meet in the jazz scene. They wanted to tell the truth about that experience without complaint or conclusion.
Keller and Evans composed the songs, setting new work by Michele Morgan, Hazel Smith and Keller herself beside poems by Sara Teasdale and Jeanie Greensfelder. Berardi sings the words in a written section and Barnes replies in a free section without them. Three tracks are open improvisations for Barnes, Evans and Keller, and two are duets for saxophone and piano alone.
The four live in Sydney, Melbourne, Geelong and Lucerne, so the October run is a rare chance to hear the quartet in one room.
