Nick is a trumpet player, composer and band leader, a founding member of ARIA Award-winning quartet, The Vampires, founding member of the Sydney-based reggae outfit, The Strides, and leader of his own groups, Garfish and The Nick Garbett Quintet. As a session trumpet player, Nick has performed, toured, written and recorded with artists such as Don Henley (USA,) Noel Gallagher, Jimmy Barnes, Bernard Fanning, The Presets, Tex Perkins, Lionel Loueke (BEN,) Angus Stone, Glenn Shorrock, Jessica Mauboy, Lisa Mitchell and The Panics. Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and was the recipient of the 2018 Freedman Jazz Fellowship.