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Eitan Muir is an electric guitarist, composer and arranger based in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia. He fronts an instrumental jazz-rock trio and volunteers on the committee for Sydney-based Balinese gamelan Suwitra Jaya (led by Dr Manolete Mora).

Eitan was a founding member of improvising quintet Anoesis (2MBS Fine Music Jazz Artists-In-Residence 2021; ‘Best Band’ runner-up prize in Bucharest International Jazz Competition 2019). In 2025, Eitan received a Gary Watson Scholarship to study traditional Balinese gamelan music at Sanggar Çudamani’s Summer Institute in Ubud. Throughout October 2022, Eitan worked in duo with poet/classical pianist Belle Bregovic as Artists in Residence at The Old School, Mt Wilson. Previous projects and engagements include his symmetrical improvising septet, experimental guitar duo Rich Fish, and collaborations with Sydney artists including vocalist/bassist Sarah Homeh, rapper Envee, baglama virtuoso Muharrem Aslan and contemporary dancer Sarah Elliot.

Eitan occasionally composes acoustic chamber music, and his works have seen performances by Suwitra Jaya Gamelan and by the Satsuki Odamura Koto Ensemble in Australia and the Philippines. His work for solo piano Illustrations, Vol. 3 was shortlisted in the 2021 USyd Piano Society Composition Competition. His composition Ngubeng for guitar ensemble and gamelan semar pagulingan was premiered by Sydney Guitar Collective and Suwitra Jaya Gamelan in 2025.

Eitan holds a Diploma of Music (Contemporary Performance) from WSI Entertainment (2015), and a Bachelor of Music (Honours, Class I) and the University Medal in Creative Practice from UNSW Sydney (2020). He currently divides his time between teaching guitar, performing, and a part-time position as Artistic Coordinator at Penrith Conservatorium of Music.

Updated 19 September 2025