Debut self-titled album, released in spring 2010. Birds of Paradox was formed in 2007 to explore the fusion of composition and improvisation, incorporating three very distinct voices and cultural backgrounds into a creative whole. The trio synthesizes elements of jazz and improvised music, traditional Chinese, Western and Indian music into a collective expression of life [...]
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 [...]
~visit the Standing Wave Ensemble official website~ Made up of six of Vancouver’s most sought-after musical multitaskers, Standing Wave is dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary chamber music by Canadian and International composers. Standing Wave ventures into a wide array of musical worlds with passion and assurance. From the intricate complexities of the music of [...]
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 [...]
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 and bass drums). The ensemble concocts an intense, mesmerizing, formally intricate music, a world music analogue of the [...]
“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 Yamashita in Kyoto and in 1971, was promoted to uchideshi (protege and successor) to Master Koku Kikusui [...]
“[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) NEW RELEASE!! The Point of It All, a new recording from the rich creative collaboration between Talking Pictures, singer-pianist [...]
“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 thermonuclear explosion.” – The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, Canada) This 18-piece, post-modern, new music ensemble, consisting of many of Vancouver’s finest musicians [...]
Cellist Peggy Lee resides in Vancouver where she performs in a range of ensembles including the Vancouver Opera Orchestra , the string quartet Microcosmos, and the new music ensemble Standing Wave . As an improvisor, she has ongoing collaborations with Tony Wilson, Ron Samworth, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz , Dylan van der Schyff and Dave [...]
