Freyja Garbett is an ARIA award winning musician who began playing violin and piano at a young age, later earning a substantial scholarship to Berklee College of Music, where she graduated summa cum laude in Performance and Jazz Composition. She recently completed a Master of Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, focusing on converting motion from surfing ocean waves into MIDI data and processing it through Ableton Live using analogue synthesizers and onboard VSTs.

 

She lived in Boston and New York City for five years. She currently lives south of Sydney and is performing and working as a session musician, composer and producer on piano, organ and synthesisers.

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As a session musician, collaborator, and musical director, Freyja has worked with a wide range of notable Australian and international artists, including Montaigne, Touch Sensitive, Ian Moss, Casey Donovan, Stella Donnelly, Katie Noonan, Hermitude, Tom Thum, Urthboy, AGUM, Mia Rodrigues, Jorge Drexler, and Alejandro Sanz, among many others.

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She is set to tour with The Veronicas in 2026 and will also perform at the Sydney Opera House with Reuben Kaye as part of Sydney Festival.

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Freyja has composed, arranged, produced, edited, and performed music for video games, including the upcoming Sowden House, working with Brendan McNamara, known for his work on Grand Theft Auto, creator of L.A. Noire and the

founder of Team Bondi and Video Games Deluxe, now Rockstar Australia. This album is due for release early 2026.

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Freyja is also set to release her sophomore album,

‘Music from the Waves’, on the ABC Jazz label this year. She was also an artist-in-residence with the ABC in 2025, recording multiple solo works and curating and presenting her own music alongside selections from her favourite artists over the

course of a month.

 

In addition to performing, producing and composing, Freyja enjoys teaching jazz studies at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and jazz piano and ensembles at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Freyja recently ran a 4 day creative

jazz camp for female and gender diverse musicians in collaboration with Equity in Jazz at the Sydney

Conservatorium of Music, led by Jess Green. This initiative reflects her ongoing advocacy for greater female representation in jazz and improvised music, aiming to foster inclusivity and inspire the next generation of women in the

field.

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After returning home to Australia at the beginning of 2017, Freyja gained commissions by SIMA and APRA AMCOS to compose an extended work for a ten-piece jazz ensemble. ‘Bulga’ is a multi-movement suite which heavily utilizes synthesisers, FX and a range of studio techniques to manipulate the band’s recorded improvisations. From this commission emerged her regularly gigging Septet. This band recorded her debut album ‘Maya’ released on Art as Catharsis Records in November 2019. Freyja recently travelled to Malaysia to play at the Kuching Jazz Festival with her quartet in October 2022. She travelled to SXSW with Annie Hamilton in early 2023. 

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