Jackie Marshall & Robert Davidson

Robert Davidson is a prolific composer, bassist, lecturer and founder and artistic director of Topology. Davidson studied composition in California before completing a composition PhD at the University of Queensland.

Davidson’s compositions are regularly performed, recorded and broadcast around the world, in venues including New York’s Lincoln Center, Sydney’s Opera House and London’s Barbican. With Topology he has released 15 albums, and has directed numerous artistic collaborations with creators of many varied cultural backgrounds. He has released two albums as a solo artist.

Dr Davidson is the head of composition at the University of Queensland and his research is in artificial intelligence and music, music theory, collaboration, music literacy and music education.

Jackie Marshall is a Brisbane-based independent songwriter, performer and recording artist who creates music in alternative contemporary genres, glancing across folk, country, rock, improvised and art music realms.

No two Jackie Marshall shows are alike; her knack for in-the-moment flights of improvisation keeping even the most experienced band member on their toes. Jackie’s performances brim with energy, warmth, presence and all the experience of a complicated life distilled into song, reaching far into the hearts and minds of intrepid music lovers at home and abroad.
Jackie will release and tour an album of songs drawn from Three Chords And The Truth in 2023, called You’re Not Too Much And You Are Enough.