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6 Jun 2022 9:05

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Perth International Jazz Festival appoints General Manager

Perth International Jazz Festival (PIJF) has appointed Richard Evans to the new role of General Manager.

He started his career as an entertainment lawyer with Barron Entertainment and later worked at Clayton Utz in the 1990s. He went on to become the co-founder and proprietor of the Greenwich Jazz Club and International Players Clubs in Perth, publisher of Revelation Magazine, and founder and organiser of the Indian Summer Music Festival & Conference.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts