This collaborative trio of Ron Samworth, Lan Tung, and Neelamjit Dhillon was formed in December of 2007 to explore the fusion of composition and improvisation. The unique instrumentation – erhu/voice, guitars/effects, and tabla/alto saxophone, provides a wealth of textural possibilities to these three versatile composer/performers. Three very distinct voices and cultural backgrounds come together as [...]
The Turning Point Ensemble was formed by its musician members in 2002 with the goal of presenting rarely-heard concert-music for a large-sized chamber ensemble. With a mission to increase the appreciation and understanding of music composed during the past hundred years, the Turning Point Ensemble has quickly earned a stellar reputation for outstanding programming and [...]
“some of the freshest, vital contemporary jazz on the Canadian scene today.”
- Ken Pickering, Vancouver International Jazz Festival
In the summer of 2006 The October Trio served notice that it’s a band ready to make an imprint on the Canadian jazz scene when it snagged the CBC Galaxie Rising Stars Award for best new artist at [...]
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One of the most dynamic contemporary music groups in Canada, Standing Wave is a chamber ensemble dedicated to commissioning and performing works by Canadian and International composers. The group’s five members – clarinettist AK Coope, violinist Rebecca Whitling, cellist Peggy Lee, percussionist Vern Griffiths and pianist Allen Stiles – [...]
Koan: an exciting new world music group brings together jazz and traditional Chinese instrumental music infused with middle eastern and South American influences.
Koan includes six of the best Canadian artists from their respective musical traditions, all veteran performers with many years of professional experience. Three Chinese instruments, erhu, suona and dizi, share the front of [...]
Mearingstone is a Vancouver-based ensemble of five pipers, which plays new works for Scottish highland bagpipes, often augmented by other instruments such as Japanese taiko and shakuhachi, Indian tabla, bass clarinet, or pipe band percussion (snare, tenor [...]
“Takeo Yamashiro offers a taste of aural Zen via the soothing sounds of the Japanese shakuhachi flute.” – The Province (Canada)
Born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1943, Takeo Yamashiro studied the shakuhachi for seven years with Master Shuzan [...]
“[Ron] Samworth, trumpeter Bill Clark, drummer Dylan van der Schyff and cellist Peggy Lee’s cinematic, adventurous compositions have gained Talking Pictures an international reputation as one of Canada’s finest modern jazz units.” – The Province (Canada)
Formed in [...]
“The Hard Rubber Orchestra is the “Godzilla of the Vancouver jazz scene, a big, goofy monster that stomps through complex charts with the swagger of a big swing band and the heat of a [...]
This sextet is “fearless and sweet, … adventurous and diverse” – The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, Canada)
Peggy Lee has developed a strong reputation for her performance on cello and in particular for her sublime approach to improvisation and extended playing [...]