In December 2013 the Head of Music, Robert Burke, the Director of the Academy of Performing Arts, Paul Grabowsky, Stephen Magnusson and Mirko Guerrini together with 35 students from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music travelled to the Monash University Prato Centre in Italy (just outside of Florence) to record with seminal European Jazz musician ECM recording artist trumpet man Enrico Rava. Recorded over 2 days the players employed the Italian approach to music, relaxed but with an intensity of potent meaning and harmonic perfection.