Heather Shannon

Heather Shannon – best known as the keyboardist in the beloved art-pop band The Jezabels and now a composer – journeyed to remote Iceland to create a bold solo project: the atmospheric piano album Midnight Sun.


Shannon's rendering of her inner-self in flux is simultaneously personal and universal, with a cinematic aesthetic evoking the Arctic Circle's polar days and bleakly beautiful Westfjords scenery.


Prior to achieving success with The Jezabels, Shannon completed a Bachelor in Piano Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Today this auteur is exploring new means to deconstruct an outmoded dichotomy between the hallowed classical tradition and popdom, while redefining the avant-garde.


In 2017 Shannon won a competition for Sydney's Metropolitan Orchestra – her work 'Sequence And Variation' subsequently performed under Artistic Director Sarah-Grace Williams. She's since composed for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra. In the meantime, Shannon made forays into cinema scoring Heath Davis' indie films Broke and Book Week.


The otherworldly album opens with the searching 'Fragments', leading into the disquieting 'Ricochet' – which Shannon previously presented to the ACO Collective. Midnight Sun's most melancholy moment arrives in 'A Place To Go'. It then takes a tumultuous turn on 'Fossavatn'. The album culminates in the buoyant and restorative 'Engi'.