Vanessa Perica - Composer and Conductor

Vanessa Perica is a composer, arranger, conductor based in Melbourne, Australia.

Career highlights include winning the APRA Art Music Award and Australian Jazz Bell Award (2021) for ‘Work of the Year’, as well as the Music Victoria Award for ‘Best Jazz Album’ for her critically acclaimed debut, ‘Love is a Temporary Madness’.

Reaching number 1 on the AIR Independent charts, and number 3 on the ARIA Jazz & Blues charts, the album was also a nominee in the prestigious Australian Music Prize and AIR Independent Record Awards.


Vanessa has been commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to write compositions and arrangements for performances at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl and Hamer Hall. The world premiere of the ‘Love is a Temporary Madness, Symphonic Suite’ by the MSO and Vanessa Perica Orchestra was a finalist in the 2022 APRA Art Music Awards ‘Performance of the Year: Jazz/Improvised Music’.

She was also a finalist in the 2021 Australian Women in Music Awards for the ‘Emerging Artist Award’, and has performed at the Perth, Sydney and Melbourne International Jazz Festivals.  

Vanessa is a Yamaha Artist, and conductor for the Ministry of Sound Classical Australian National Tour.

Suggested Listening

• Love is a Temporary Madness - Vanessa Perica Orchestra

• Data Lords - Maria Schneider Orchestra

• The Thompson Fields - Maria Schneider Orchestra

• Evanescence - Maria Schneider Orchestra

Suggesting Watching (TV Series)

• White Lotus on Max

• The Diplomat on Netflix