Michelle Nicolle is celebrated as Australia's finest female jazz singer.
Music Victoria Award (2024), Bell Award (2017), Mo Award 2001, 2003 & 2004, National Jazz Award (1998) winner and A.R.I.A Finalist (Australian ‘Grammy’s’ equivalent) in 2001, 2004, and 2009.
NOIR
Michelle Nicolle with Paul Grabowsky
Award-winning jazz singer Michelle Nicolle and acclaimed composer and pianist Paul Grabowsky unveil the hidden poetry within beloved ballads by artists like Frank Sinatra and Cole Porter, transforming familiar melodies into haunting explorations of longing, heartbreak, and the bittersweet beauty of unrequited love. From jazz standards to unexpected gems, each song on this release is stripped back to its emotional core, revealing those ephemeral moments of yearning often disguised beneath popular songs.
Recorded for ABC Jazz and masterfully engineered by Mal Stanley
Released on ABC Jazz - 15 August 2025
THE BRUNSWICK GREEN
EVERY THURSDAY SINCE 2007
Since 2007 Michelle has been playing in the gorgeous front room of the 'Brunny Green' every Thursday night, singing and reimagining your jazz requests. The Melbourne Jazz scene is alive and as amazing as ever. As a kicker into 2022 Michelle is re-jigging her residency by featuring a different line-up each week.
Some of Australia's finest and most creative musicians will join Michelle and they’ll be bouncing off classic tunes/not-so-classic tunes, some requests, and most importantly off each other!
Book your ticket here.
“All Rise”
Jazz at the Lincoln Centre Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
(Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Benjamin Northey,
Michelle Nicolle, Emma Pearson, MSO Chorus, Consort of Melbourne).
“The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra lived up to its reputation as supreme interpreters of this music, its garrulous horns meshing in seamlessly with the strings and percussion of the MSO. The large chorus – massive in sound – was used sparingly but always to dramatic effect, heightening the emotive reach of the music.
Michelle Nicolle, a renowned local jazz vocalist, was a standout, her resounding gospel cry of ‘I Say All Rise’ piercing the soul”
— Des Cowley, ABR ARTS
