Loretta Palmeiro x Mark Isaacs
Live at The Church
24 May 2026
Following five years of rehearsal, Loretta and Palmeiro & Mark Isaacs gave their first performance in 2017. Up until 2025, they exclusively composed their music together on the spot, in real time, and without any safety net or roadmap.
Major live performances have included Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival, Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Festival, Johnston Street Jazz/Annandale Creative Arts Centre, SIMA ‘Jazz: Now’, NSW Government ‘Great Southern Nights’, St Stephen’s Church and Orange Winter Jazz Festival.
During 2020 they released an album, an EP and two live music videos for SIMA and Phoenix Central Park. Their debut album All Who Travel With Us was a finalist in two separate categories in the 2021 Art Music Awards, being shortlisted for Performance of the Year: Jazz/Improvised Music and Work of the Year: Jazz.
In early 2025 they performed the world premiere of Mark Isaacs’ Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano at St Stephen’s Uniting Church, Sydney, releasing a YouTube video of the premiere, which will also be released in May 2026 on the major music platforms.
About Loretta Palmeiro
Loretta Palmeiro is a highly distinguished performer and recording artist in classical and jazz, a soloist in chamber and orchestral settings, and with renowned jazz ensembles. She has released several albums of original music and has performed with jazz luminaries like Emma Pask and Lakecia Benjamin. An ABC Jazz “Artist in Residence” in 2024 she was a soloist on the APRA-AMCOS Jazz Work of the Year, "Busy Quiet" by Nat Bartsch.
About Mark Isaacs
Mark Isaacs is an internationally acclaimed composer and pianist in classical music and jazz. He has won several awards for his large oeuvre of compositions for major artists, orchestras and ensembles.
As a jazz pianist and composer, he has twice been nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album, has recorded and toured worldwide, working with some of the artform’s most legendary international figures, and releasing many acclaimed albums on major international and Australian labels such as Naxos and ABC.
As a classical pianist, he has released highly regarded solo recordings and collaborated with distinguished Australian classical instrumentalists on the concert stage and in the studio.
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MARK ISAACS
Benediction from Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and PianoLORETTA PALMEIRO
NocturneMARK ISAACS
MercyLORETTA PALMEIRO & MARK ISAACS
ExtemporisationsGUY WOOD
My One and Only Love
This performance will take place at The Church.
The Church is a meticulously restored 19th-century Gothic church in Alexandria, NSW owned by Judith Neilson AM that houses rehearsals and work development for musicians by invitation.
Performance
PerformanceSunday 24 May 2026
4:00pm
LocationThe Church
9 Mitchell Rd, Alexandria
TicketsFree, by ballot only
Ballot closes in
Ballot draw date: Tuesday 19 May 2026
Ticketing FAQs
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All performances at The Church are free.
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