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About Carole

Carole is a London-born jazz pianist, saxophonist and composer who has been living in Ireland since 1986.

Her current project, the Carole Nelson Trio, with Carole on piano, bassist Cormac O'Brien and drummer Dominic Mullen, began at the 2015 Dublin Trio Trio Trio Piano Festival. The Trio’s first album, One Day in Winter was released November 2017 .

The album, all original compositions from Carole, follows the course of a winter’s day, inspired by the South County Carlow landscape between the River Barrow and the Blackstairs Mountains, where she currently lives.
​'A finely-wraught meditation that tapped into the spacious European piano trio tradition of Tord Gustavsen and Marcin Wasilewski' Cormac Larkin, Irish Times.

Arboreal is the trio's second album, released February 2020 and features another collection of outstanding compositions.
'One of the most original jazz composers in Ireland' Irish Times
​'a rare and exceptional talent' Irish Times

Carole formed Zrazy with vocalist Maria Walsh in 1991. Their debut CD Give It All Up won the 1992 Hot Press/Music Critics Best New Band Award. Carole has since recorded five further albums of critically-acclaimed and award-winning music with Zrazy. Their 1998 album Private Wars won an American GLAMA award (Gay and Lesbian American Music Award) for Best Jazz. Zrazy performed this year at the Galway Jazz Festival, the Cork Jazz Festival and have toured extensively in North America and Europe.

“…glorious free-spirited jazz” – The Irish Times

Carole has arranged original music for the Dublin choir Gloria. Her composition Beloved and other arrangements are now performed by choirs worldwide.

Carole's theatre work includes composition for The Trojan Women at the Peacock and Emma Donoghues's Ladies and Gentlemen at the Project. 
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AWARDS AND BURSARYS
2020 Carlow Arts Grant towards the recording of Arboreal
2020 Irish Arts Council Bursary Award
2018 Recipient of Music Network Piano Scheme for Carole Nelson Trio's 
One Day in Winter Tour

2018 Nominated Hot Press Best Album for Zrazy's The Art of Happy Accidents
2017 Received Carlow Arts Grant toward recording of One Day in Winter by Carole Nelson Trio
2005 Winner of Best Album with Zrazy’s Dream On album in USA OutMusic Awards 2003 Finalist in USA International Songwriting Competition for Zrazy's Private Wars
2002 Received an Arts Council Award for contemporary composition for Dream On by Zrazy
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2001. Winner of USA Billboard International Songwriters Competition for Private Wars
1998 Received a USA GLAMA award for Best Jazz with Private Wars 
1998 Irish Arts Council Award toward the recording of Private Wars
1996 Irish Arts Council Interdisciplinary Award to develop an opera Gilgamesh in collaboration with writer Melissa Murray.
1994 Irish Gold Disc No1 hit for pop song Ooh Ah Paul McGrath
1992 Hot Press Smithicks Music Critics Award for Zrazy Best New Band


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    • Saxophone
    • Vocal
    • Piano
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