Justin Fermino is a saxophonist, clarinetist and vocalist who lives in Melbourne, Australia. He began playing music at the age of twelve. After completing a Diploma of Jazz Performance whilst still in high school, he then moved to Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance) in 2010. Currently thirty-one years of age Justin has enjoyed performing in Australia and internationally at venues and festivals such as London Southbank Centre, Sydney Festival, Sydney Opera House, Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and WOMADelaide. He has also toured in Japan, China, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy and Germany.
Fermino is an active composer and has written more than one hundred compositions. These compositions vary in size from single instruments up to a seventeen piece jazz orchestra. As a bandleader he currently has seven ensembles under his direction. Justin’s first album was recorded in 2010 and since then has recorded and released nineteen albums under the names of various projects.
- 'The Cope Street Parade' - Cope Street Parade (2010)
- 'Live at Caravan' - Cope Street Parade (2011)
- 'Get It Together' - Hi Tops Brass Band (2012)
- 'The Finer Cuts' - Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts (2012)
- 'The Bull Jumped Over The Moon' - Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts (2013)
- ‘Volume One’ - Cope Street Parade (2013)
- ’S’Wonderbull’ - Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts (2014)
- ‘Pump The Blues’ - The Corridors (2014)
- ‘Volume Two’ - Cope Street Parade (2014)
- ‘The Basement Big Band’ - The Basement Big Band (2015)
- ‘Volume Three’ - Cope Street Parade (2015)
- 'We Came To Party' - Hi Tops Brass Band (2016)
- 'Townie Ramble On' - Cope Street Parade (2016)
- ‘When I Grow Too Old To Dream’ - The Corridors (2018)
- ’Tin Hat Blues | Live’ - Basement Big Band (2018)
- ‘Australian Ragtime Music’ - Cope Street Parade (2019)
- ‘Catania’ - Handle Bars (2019)
- ‘Caffe Corretto’ - Cope Street Parade (2020)
- ’Sailboat In The Moonlight’ - Geoff Bull and the Finer Cuts (2020)
Justin served as artistic director for the Jazzgroove Association. A two-year tenure began in November 2012. Jazzgroove is an artist run, not for profit organisation that promotes improvised jazz based music. As artistic director his role was to curate approximately one hundred performances each year as well as program an annual four-day festival. This was a huge honour and a highly rewarding way to support the creative music community of Sydney and Australia.
Performing highlights in his career include playing alongside Leroy Jones, Lulo Reinhardt, Bob Barnard, James Morrison, Ed Kuepper and the Aints, Goldfinger, The Meltdown, Scotch and Soda (circus), Ben Walsh, The Bird, Thundermentals, TUKA, Ian Date, Bernie McGann, Jim Conway’s Big Wheel, Geoff Bull, Jason Marsalis, Bobby Singh, Christa Hughes, James Greening and Judy Bailey as well as many other fine musicians.
