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An active member of the New York jazz scene,
Bruce McKinnon has performed with J.J. Johnson, Don Byron, Joe Lovano,
Alvin Batiste, Don Braden, Conrad Herwig, Django Bates, Doug Beavers
and Marc Mommaas. He began piano lessons at age five in his native
Calgary, Canada. Moving to Boston to attend Harvard University,
he played jazz professionally while earning a BA cum laude in Mathematics.
The call of music led to New York and a Master of Music in Jazz
Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in 2002. Bruce has
studied piano with Garry Dial and Fred Hersch, and composition with
Dave Douglas, Dave Liebman and Michael Abene. He has played in the
Banff International Jazz Workshop (2001, 2002) and the Jazz Aspen
Snowmass Academy (2003), where he worked with Christian McBride,
Grady Tate, James Carter and Cyrus Chestnut. Bruce is a Midori Foundation
Teaching Artist in New York. |
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Drummer, composer and improviser Joe Sorbara has developed a reputation as a diverse and energetic musical presence on the Toronto’s jazz and improvised music scene. His own projects include the Pickle Juice Orchestra, and he co-leads a number of ensembles such as Adcroft/ Shaw/ Sorbara, PST (with Nilan Perera and Scott Thomson), Squash Recipe, and Mr. Pointy. Joe also performs and records on a regular basis with Glen Hall’s Trio Muo, Ken Aldcroft’s ensembles, and with Peter van Huffel. Joe has also shared the stage with John Abercrombie, Dave Douglas, Dominic Duval, Hugh Fraser, Peggy Lee, Sook Yin Lee, Joe Lovano, John Oswald, Ron Samworth, Dylan van der Schyff, Tom Chant, Jean Derome, and Kenny Werner. York University awarded him the Oscar Peterson Scholarship for outstanding achievement in jazz studies in 1999. Joe is a founding board member of the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto and the co-producer of the successful Leftover Daylight Series. He also runs Oval Window Records from his home in Toronto. |
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