Nat Bartsch Live at The Count's

Next date: Wednesday, 22 April 2026 | 07:30 PM to 10:00 PM

ARIA-nominated Nat Bartsch makes her Count’s debut with her searing jazz quartet.

Nat Bartsch is a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning jazz and classical pianist and composer. Her meditative, lyrical music defies the conventions of genre and deeply resonates, often in profoundly personal moments. Nat's quartet brings this music to life with extraordinary sensitivity, lyricism and emotion.

An accomplished recording artist, she has released eight albums of original music as a solo artist and as bandleader for the Nat Bartsch Trio. She has toured Australia, Japan and Europe, performing at major venues including Hamer Hall and Melbourne Recital Centre. She has performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, toured Europe with Abdullah Ibrahim's Ekaya and has had two compositions in ABC Classic's Classic 100: Piano Countdown.

After several releases for ABC Classic and Jazz, Nat founded her own record label, Amica Records. Existing on a jazz–classical spectrum, she is particularly known for her jazz reinterpretations of her classical works—leading to the formation of the Nat Bartsch Quartet (with Robbie Melville – guitar, Tamara Murphy – double bass, Maddison Carter – drums). Her well-known releases, Forever, No Time At All and Hope, have all undergone this transformation. Forever received an ARIA nomination for Best Jazz Album, while Hope Renewed, her most recent release, created a jazz/post-rock mosaic with her quartet and additional chamber musicians—earning a Music Victoria Award nomination for Best Jazz Work.

Bartsch has composed chamber music commissions for Plexus Collective, Solstice Trio, Matt Withers/Sally Whitwell and The Muses Trio, and received numerous awards including the Catherine Mary Sullivan Scholarship, Classical:NEXT Fellowship, Johnny Dennis Music Award and Melbourne Prize for Music Development. She has also performed in contemporary genres with artists including Whitaker, Thando, Matt Corby and Circus Oz. At the 2023 Art Music Awards, she won Work of the Year: Jazz for Busy/Quiet, performed by her quartet with Ellen Kirkwood and Loretta Palmeiro.

In 2025, Brightness in the Hills, Forever and No Time At All were voted nos. 79 and 84 in ABC Classic’s Classic 100: Piano Countdown, with Bartsch performing Brightness in the Hills live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, broadcast on ABC TV and ABC Classic Radio.

Join us at The Count’s for an evening where the Nat Bartsch Quartet blends fiery energy with delicate, lyrical jazz.

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The Count's - The Ian Potter Centre for Performing Arts, 48 Exhibition Walk, Clayton 3800, Clayton, 3800, View Map