Joni Mitchell sounds like no other. Her song writing is unmatched. Her musicality and phrasing is inimitable. Her integrity is luminous. She continues to make beautiful, relevant music 40 years after her career birth. Her songs still make me cry. For these reasons and many more she is an inspiration of the highest order to me.

- Katie Noonan

Katie Noonan’s technical mastery and pure voice make her one of Australia’s most versatile and beloved vocalists. A mother, singer, producer, songwriter, pianist and business woman, this multi award winning and 5 x platinum selling songstress first received widespread praise as the angel-voiced songstress of indie-pop band george and she has since taken audiences on sublime excursions through jazz, pop and classical music. Her various releases include her folk trio’s self titled album “elixir”, the No. 1 selling classical album “Two of a Kind” with her mother Maggie and her gold-selling top ten album solo album “Skin”. She has also worked with the country’s top orchestra’s including her recent fruitful collaboration with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Noonan’s affinity with jazz shone through the ARIA award winning album, Before Time Could Change Us. Recorded with revered pianist Paul Grabowsky, it captured the breathtaking beauty and emotion which characterises her work. In Noonan’s latest album release, Blackbird, she collaborated with an historic ensemble of iconic jazz players including Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Lewis Nash and John Scofield.

Reviewer Murray Black put it succinctly during a reflection on Katie’s guest appearance at the Lord Of The Rings Symphony at the Opera House with the SSO:

The undoubted highlight of the evening was guest vocalist Katie Noonan. Here is a rare talent with a voice of extraordinary beauty and versatility. In most of her solos, she sounded like a classical soprano as she soared over the orchestra with a spine-tingling, vibrato-less angelic purity. Then, in Gollum’s Song and the Oscar winning Into the West, she revealed her pop diva credentials with her strong, clear voice projecting effortlessly out in the audience.”

– Murray Black

“Noonan’s soaring, beautifully phrased high notes, ultra-musical communication of meaning and expressive use of the microphone and digitial technologies were stunning.”

- Gillian Wills, The Australian (7 March 2008)