CV
Music (Lead Artist)
2024 | FIM - FIM (Flora Carbo, Isaac Gunnoo, Merinda Dias-Jayasinha)
2022 | Sense - Merinda Dias-Jayasinha
2022 | How We See (single) - Merinda Dias-Jayasinha
2022 | An Ear to the Edge - Merinda Dias-Jayasinha
2020 | Falling Towards You - Strong Cotton Socks (ABC Jazz)
2018 | first cycle - Meridians
Discography (Collaborator/Supporting Artist)
2024 | Singing Stone: The Music of Christopher Sainsbury - Ken Murray
2024 | Sleep Cycle - Claire Cross
2023 | Galaxy - Sampology & Charlie Hill
2022 | Welcome - Don Glori
2021 | Regrowth - Sampology
2020 | I AM - Invenio Singers
2020 | FOTOS - Akihiro Nishiguchi (Japan)
2020 | Stories We Tell, Songs We Sing - Matt Hoyne
2020 | A Short Film - The Rest Is Silence
2020 | Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol. 2 - Middle Name Dance Band
2020 | Crossing The Bar - Oscar Neyland and Merinda Dias-Jayasinha
2019 | Trading Fours (Celebrating Queensland Jazz History) - The Riversides
2019 | Music of the Piano Mill 2018 - Harrigans Lane Collective
2019 | Cruel Sea - Jonathan Cooper
2018 | Volume 1 - Brisbane Conduction Orchestra
2018 | Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol. 1 - Middle Name Dance Band
2018 | Seeds EP - Sam Stosuur
Broader Artistic Practice - Projects and Collaborations
2023-24 | Chamber Made - Little Operations - Artist
2022 | Rhythmic Fictions by Siobhan McKenna - Sound Design
2022 | Digital Landscapes, as part of H_ME W_RK Collective, facilitated by Arts Gen - Artist
2022 | Let’s Take Over participant, facilitated by Darebin Arts Speakeasy - Artist
2022 | Mono-Poly at Liquid Architecture, commissioned by Josephine Mead - Artist
2021 | That Which Was Once Familiar by Zoë Bastin, (Dancehouse/Bus Projects) for Midsumma Festival - Live Musician
2020 | The Receiver by Freya McGrath (The Dirty Laundry Collective) - Music and Sound Design
Relevant Professional Experience
2023-ongoing | Melbourne International Jazz Festival - Festival & Programs Coordinator
2022-23 | Melbourne International Jazz Festival - Festival Administrator/Ticketing Manager
2022-24 | WTF Tuesdays Curator at The Brunswick Green
2021 | Melbourne International Jazz Festival - Festival Administrator (contract)
2021 | Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University - Research Assistant (JPAIR)
2021-ongoing | Lebowski’s Committee Member
2021 | Midsumma Pride volunteer - Registration/Accessible Marshalling/Covid-19 Marshall
2020-22 | Isolation Improvisation Collective - Member
2019 | International Jazz Day Production Volunteer (stage/artist manager)
2018-19 | SuperSonic - Manager, Creative Producer
2019-ongoing | Invenio Singers - Member
2018, 2020 | 84 Pianos - Performer
2018-19 | Brisbane Conduction Orchestra - Member
2018 | Noisy Women - Performer at Queensland Conservatorium
2018 | Harrigans Lane Collective - Performer at Easter at The Piano Mill 2018
2017, 2018, 2019 | Generations In Jazz Vocal Scholarship Finalist
Selected Live Performances (Music)
2022 | The JazzLab (‘Sense’ album launch)
2022 | Melbourne International Jazz Festival (as part of Flora Carbo’s Take Note Commission ‘ECOSYSTEM’)
2022 | Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues
2022 | Lebowski’s “An Exposition II” (part of Brunswick Music Festival)
2020 | MPavillion (Isolation Improvisation Collective)
2020 | The Jazz Social (online solo performance)
2019 | Monash University, Zavod Memorial Trust Scholarship performance (‘This Mistaken Idea’ by Theo Carbo)
2019 | Melbourne International Jazz Festival (Linda Oh ‘Aventurine’ with Invenio Singers)
2018 | Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival (Merinda Dias-Jayasinha Trio)
2018 | Magnetic Island Jazz Festival
2018 | Brisbane Jazz Club (Meridians album launch)
2018 | Melbourne International Jazz Festival (Duo with Theo Carbo)
2017 | Magnetic Island Jazz Festival
2017 | Brisbane International Jazz Festival (Merinda Dias-Jayasinha Quartet)
2016 | Bennetts Lane
2014 | Magnetic Island Jazz Festival
Publications
2023 | Loud Mouth Music Trust - INSIDE THE MUSICIAN. Merinda Dias-Jayasinha: An ode to vocal music
2021 | Melbourne Jazz Co-operative Emerging Artist Interview Series, Interview with Tamara Murphy
Press
2022 | The Music Show (ABC) - Interview with Andrew Ford
2022 | Loud Mouth Music Trust E-Zine - ‘Sense’ Album Review
2022 | Age of Leisure - Artist Profile
2022 | Music Feeds - ‘How We See’ Debut
Teaching Experience
2019-22 | Princes Hill Secondary College - Voice Teacher, Choral Conductor
2018-19 | Brisbane Girls Grammar School - Workshop Facilitator/Composers Camp Tutor
2017-ongoing | Private Music Tutor (voice, piano)
2016-18 | Brisbane State High School - Private Music Tutor
2015 | Brisbane Girls Grammar School - Classroom Music Tutor/Administrative Support
Education
2021-ongoing | PhD student, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
2015-18 | Bachelor of Music (Honours), Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University