Results for "Toronto"

Peter Lutek

Peter Lutek is a gentle human, living with his wife on a small, garden-filled plot of land amidst the bustle of urban life in Toronto, Canada. He makes sound with reed instruments, electronics, and the occasional power tool; his sourdough is relatively quiet. Peter has been active in a wide range of musical performing for nearly half a century; in the end, he is most at home in improvised contexts. Currently, Peter is playing with the Avi Granite 6, and Ben Caplan, while developing his own in-studio projects. His unique voice is also expressed in beginning-to-end production roles for ENGINE (Peter Lutek), 40 fingers (saxophone quartet), Riverrun (Tom Richards), Storytime (Rob Mosher), Joseph Petric, and David Mott.
 

Ross MacIntyre

Toronto based acoustic and electric bassist Ross MacIntyre is one of the most sought after professional musicians in Canada. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he graduated from the University of Toronto’s esteemed jazz program, and has since performed with elite musicians from Canada and around the world. He has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia with renown artists including Matt Dusk, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Jesse Cook, Heather Bambrick, Eliana Cuevas, Elizabeth Shepherd, Kellylee Evans, the Shuffle Demons, and Michael Kaeshammer. From 2000-2003 Ross was the musical director and composer for the Garden Brother’s Circus, and has performed in numerous musical theatre productions with Canstage, Young People's Theatre, and Mirvish Productions

Adrean Farrugia

Award winning pianist and composer Adrean Farrugia is one of Canada’s most distinct voices on the piano. Since the late 1990s, Adrean has been in high demand as a freelance performer and educator as well as keeping a busy schedule, mainly as a sought-after sideman, contributing composer and collaborator, touring extensively across Canada and the United States as well as in venues across Europe, Australia, the UK, Israel and Japan with a diverse range of artists and musical projects including: Ernie Watts, Matt Dusk, the Brad Goode Group (featuring Ernie Watts and Adam Nussbaum), Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop (featuring saxophonist Joel Frahm), Heather Bambrick, the Johnny Griffith Quintet, Kiki Misumi, Tim Shia’s “Worst Pop Band Ever”, the Bob Brough Quartet, and the Darcy Hepner Big Band

Andrew Downing

Douglas MacRae

Born: February 11

Doug MacRae makes his home in Toronto, Canada, where he was born. He has over thirty years in music. He learned to play guitar and write songs as a teenager by listening to such artists as Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, and Larry Norman. He played and studied the songs, and began to learn arrangements and chord progressions. Later on, after buying Bob Dylan's Biograph box set, he began to go back and explore the stylistic roots of modern music - folk, blues, jazz, rock, and soul. Greats like Muddy Waters, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Son House, Buddy Guy, Mahalia Jackson, Pops Staples, O.V

Heather Bambrick

Born: January 19, 1971

JUNO-nominated vocalist Heather Bambrick prides herself on being an entertainer through and through. From her skillful, effortless interaction with audiences, to the variety and breadth of her material, Heather approaches every aspect of her performances with the goal of leaving audiences feeling far better after her shows than before they arrived. This is why her concerts have been described as what happens when “Ella Fitzgerald meets Carol Burnett at a Newfoundland kitchen party”. It’s not only audiences who appreciate Heather’s talent. Critics and industry professionals place Heather on the top rung of the musical ladder

Nathan Dell-Vandenberg

Born: March 10, 1987

Creatively exploring the trombone As a trombonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, Nathan Dell-Vandenberg has an insatiable thirst for exploration. Growing up in Toronto, Ontario with an artist for a mother and father who embraced new ideas, Nathan developed early as a creative thinker. His inventive personality began to flourish in his high school music program at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts. As a trombonist in the senior band, he had the opportunity to play locally and in New York, Chicago, Clarksdale (home of the blues) and New Orleans. He has also recorded at such historic studios as FAME and EGREM

Chris Wallace

Born: August 9

“…a drummer of supreme musicality.” John Shand – Sydney Morning Herald Chris Wallace is a drummer and composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan. Between 2002 and 2013 he lived in Edinburgh, Scotland and was a central figure in the Scottish jazz community. Chris is now based in Toronto, Canada. Chris has just released the "Many Names" EP, recorded Dec 6, 2015 in Toronto ON. Canada. Showcasing his new compositions and paving the way for the quartet's first full length album in 2016. The band features award winning Canadian jazz musicians: Jeff King on tenor sax, Adrean Farrugia on piano and Dan Fortin on bass

Andree-Ann Deschenes

Born: July 5, 1988

Mark Knox

Born: October 29, 1953

It all started by being exposed to his father’s record collection that ranged from Homer & Jethro to Ahmad Jamal to Dick Schory. Not that it was all jazz, but it WAS all good music. The part that intrigued him the most was the swing stuff . . . that walking bass part and that rhythmic ride cymbal just did something. Dick Schory’s swinging tune “Runnin’ Wild” really did it. For a pre-teen to hear such stuff . . . well, it was euphoria. And then . . . from playing a Farfisa organ in a junior-high school rock band to composing and performing on many widely-released albums and projects, Mark's capabilities for music branched out into audio technology and production