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Nelson Cantando Festival

April 23-26th 2015

New Era Music Festivals Presents

Director’s Message

Selkirk College in Nelson continues to support the festival in a big way. We are thankful for their space as well as their talented faculty who are involved in the Friday evening concert as well as several workshops on Saturday. Students from the school will be performing on Saturday night. Several student volunteers from the College are also actively involved in helping out – you will see them with their bright red Cantando shirts moving ensembles from place to place and directing students to the right venues as well as assisting adjudicators and clinicians.

A unique activity at this festival is the bringing together of participating students in large ensembles. We schedule a mass choir involving all of the choir students who will perform a few short works on the Friday evening concert. Our first workshops on Friday bring together all of the woodwind, brass and percussion students for a giant warm-up session in the morning. Levels and ages vary but the opportunity to play with others is particularly gratifying to students from smaller programs. This should be a fun start to the days’ activities.

I would also like to thank St. John’s Music from Edmonton as well as Nelson area schools for helping out with equipment – especially percussion. We would be unable to continue without their support.

Over 5500 music students are involved in this year’s Cantando festivals. We have just completed our 17th festival in Edmonton and our 4th in Sun Peaks, then move directly from Nelson to our Whistler festival. Check out our website at www.cantando.org for more information on these and upcoming Cantando Festivals.

Dr. Dennis PrimeCantando Festival Director

It is a pleasure to welcome you to our 2nd annual Nelson Cantando Festival and we are pleased that enrolment has surged from last year. We are hosting 15 concert bands, 7 choirs and 8 jazz ensembles from across western Canada this year and know they will have a great time in this beautiful city.

We have also started a continuing relationship with musicians in adjoining US cities and universities and are pleased to welcome a number of faculty to the festival. A terrific brass quartet called “Square Revolution” from the Spokane area is performing Thursday night as well as giving brass workshops the following day. Other clinicians and adjudicators come from neighboring Washington state and Idaho as well as Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan.

Festival-At-A-Glance

April 24

April 25

Jazz Ensembles

10th st GymConcerts

Morning Afternoon Evening

Jazz Ensembles

Jazz & Vocal Workshops

Concert Band Performances

Student Social

Mass Choir Rehearsal Clinic

Concert Choir Performances

10th st GymConcert

Instrumental Workshops

April 23

Capitol TheatreConcerts

Selkirk College

Nelson United ChurchCapitol Theatre

Instrumental Workshops

Friday April 24th, 2015Selkirk College

Time Ensemble Room Adjudicator9:00am Mass Woodwind Ensemble 10th St Gym Dennis Prime

10:00am Mass Brass Ensemble 10th St Gym Square Revolution Members

11:00am Percussion Workshop 10th St Gym Graeme Peppinck1:00-

3:00pm Mass Choir Workshop 10th St Gym Dominic Gregorio

1:00pm Flute Workshop NS Cafeteria Leonard Garrison1:00pm Double Reed Workshop Scholars Kerri McCarthy2:00pm Clarinet Workshop NS Cafeteria Shannon Scott

2:00pm Horn Workshop Scholars Jennifer Scriggens Brummett

3:00pm Choir Directors’ Workshop 10th St Gym Dominic Gregorio3:00pm Saxophone Workshop NS Cafeteria Chee Meng Low3:00pm Trombone Workshop Scholars Jenny Kellogg

4:00pm Trumpet Workshop NS Cafeteria William Berry & Andy Plamondon

4:00pm Low Brass Workshop Scholars Jenny Kellogg

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Jazz Ensembles

Time Ensemble & Director Adjudicator2:00pm Chinook Jazz Band Jared Burrows3:00pm Handsworth Intermediate Jazz Band Jared Burrows4:00pm John Maland Stage Band Jared Burrows5:00pm Holy Cross Jazz One Jared Burrows

Friday April 24th, 2015Shambhala Hall, Selkirk College

Saturday April 25th, 2015Shambhala Hall, Selkirk College

Time Ensemble Adjudicator8:00am Templeton Jazz Band Jared Burrows9:00am Walnut Grove Senior Jazz Jared Burrows

10:00am Handsworth Gold Jazz Band Jared Burrows11:00am St. Mary Jazz Band Jared Burrows

Jazz & Vocal Workshops

Saturday April 25th, 2015Selkirk College - Room P124

Time Ensemble Clinician1:00pm Jazz Drumming Workshop Steve Parish2:00pm Jazz Bass Workshop Mark Spielman3:00pm Vocal Clinic Melody Diachun & Laura Landsberg4:00pm Piano/Keyboard Workshop Gilles Parenteau

Concert Choir Performances

Saturday April 25th, 2015United Church

Time Ensemble Adjudicator8:00am Chinook Chamber Choir Dominic Gregorio9:00am Walnut Grove Chamber Choir Dominic Gregorio

10:00am Chinook Concert Choir Dominic Gregorio11:00am Holy Cross Concert Choir Dominic Gregorio12:00pm Chinook Women’s Choir Dominic Gregorio1:30pm ChoiR TEChniquE WoRkshop Dominic Gregorio2:30pm St. Mary Glee Club Dominic Gregorio4:00pm Edmonton Christian Choir Dominic Gregorio

Concert Band Performances

Time Ensemble Clinician8:30am St. Mary Concert Band Robert Spittle9:00am Whitehorse All-City Junior Concert Band Brian Unverricht9:30am Sir John Thompson Wind Ensemble Robert Spittle

10:00am Edmonton Christian Concert Band Brian Unverricht10:30am ESSMY Combined Concert Band Robert Spittle11:00am Walnut Grove Concert Band Brian Unverricht11:30am Whitehorse All-City Senior Concert Band Robert Spittle1:00pm Archbishop MacDonald Concert Band Brian Unverricht1:30pm John Maland Concert Band Robert Spittle2:00pm Chinook Concert Band Brian Unverricht2:30pm Alpha Secondary Concert Band Robert Spittle3:00pm Holy Cross Senior Wind Ensemble Brian Unverricht3:30pm St. John Brebeuf Concert Band Robert Spittle4:00pm Templeton Concert Band Brian Unverricht4:30pm Handsworth Intermediate Concert Band Robert Spittle

Saturday April 25th, 2015Mary Hall, Selkirk College

Evening EventsThursday April 23rd, 2015

Capitol Theatre 7 & 8:30PM

Square Revolution

Music to be selected from:

Time Groups Assigned

7:00pm Alpha Secondary School, All-City Band Society, Holy Cross

Regional High School, John Maland High School, St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary School, Walnut Grove Secondary School

8:30pm

Archbishop MacDonald High School, Chinook High School, Edmonton Christian High School, Handsworth Secondary School, Marguerite D’Youville Secondary School, Sir John Thompson, St.

Mary High School, Templeton Secondary School

Bach

Bach

Bach

Bach

Copland

Albeniz

Harrell

Sondheim

Baker

Bono

Piazzolla

D’Rivera

McCartney

Gavotte setting by William Berry

Siciliana setting by Andrew Plamondon

Gamba Sonata No. 3, movement 1 setting by Jennifer Brummett

Badinerie setting by Jenny Kellogg

Ching-a-Ring Chaw setting by Andrew Plamondon

Suite Espanola setting by Jennifer Brummett

Train Shuffle setting by Andrew Plamondon

Send in the Clowns setting by William Berry

Freeway setting by William Berry

Ordinary Love setting by Andrew Plamondon

Reminiscence setting by Jennifer Brummett

Blues for Astor setting by Andrew Plamondon

Encore: Blackbird setting by William Berry

Evening Events Continued...

Square Revolution

In the dark days before 2014, Square Revolution was a formless mass, begging to be brought into a more substantive existence. The collision of four highly talented, incredibly imaginative brassers took the shape of a renegade band which is not above stealing from far-flung genres to see how far they might fly their shiny objects into the musical realms of wherever they wind up. Square Revolution playlists span the stylistic range from pop and jazz to tango, funk, latin, and beyond, all drawn from original compositions and arrangements unique to the Square Revolutionaries. But we are not just no-class genre pirates who play off the edge of the map! Just ask our friends, the ultra-sophisticated Northwest Brass Quartet (they’ve got our Bach, they class us up), with whom we have a great working relationship -they promise to open for us!

Square Revolution musicians are:

Trumpet – William Berry and Andy Plamondon

Horn – Jennifer Scriggins Brummett

Trombone – Jenny Kellogg

Appearing as guest artists with the Walla Walla Symphony on December 12th, 2013, Music Director Yaacov Bergman describes the group as “remarkable on all fronts . . . musically, technically, incredibly sophisticated and fun to collaborate with.”

Friday April 24th, 2015 10th Street Gym 7 & 8:30PM

Mass Choir performance Dominic Gregorio , Conductor

Music as follows:


Time Groups Assigned7:00pm Alpha Secondary School, All-City Band Society, Archbishop

MacDonald High School, Edmonton Christian High School, Handsworth Secondary School, St. John Brebeuf Regional

Secondary School, Walnut Grove Secondary School8:30pm Chinook High School, Holy Cross Regional High School, John

Maland High School, Marguerite D’Youville Secondary School, Sir John Thompson, St. Mary High School, Templeton Secondary

School

Your Fragrance

Wangol

Edward Henderson

traditional Haitian Song, arr. Kallman

selkirk College Faculty with Jared Burrows, Guitar

Music to be annnounced on stage


MARK SPIELMAN - BASSMy professional career extends back 30 years, starting with a degree from the University of Miami, but I’m first and foremost a bass player. My career has been divided equally between live performance, studio session and education. As a member of “The Circle,” a Florida-based contemporary jazz group, I performed in a variety of large venues including doing opening concerts for Hall and Oates, Chicago, Rod Stewart and George Benson. Other performance credits span a variety of styles including jazz dates with Frank Gambale, Dee Daniels and Jimmy Haslip, as well as pop/rock artists such as Ellen MacIlwaine, Shari Ulrich and Paul Janz. The list of studio session dates include jingle and live broadcast for CBC, plus numerous album productions in the role of player/producer. Currently, I arrange and write for the 10 piece R&B group “What It Is.”

LAURA LANDSBERG - VocALSBorn in London, England and raised in Vancouver, BC, Laura received her formal music education at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta. Since that time she has participated in numerous vocal workshops to further develop her skills as a performer and teacher. Laura has studied studied with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, David Worm, Axel Thiemer (Voice Care Network), Dee Daniels, Kiran Ahluwalia, Joey Blake and many other inspiring teachers. Laura is a certified voice care teacher and a member of the “Voice Care Network” and has been teaching music since 1985. Laura joined the Selkirk College Music faculty in the fall of 2004.

Laura has been the featured soloist with the Universal Gospel Choir, the Spokane Jazz Orchestra and the Vancouver Ensemble for Jazz Improvisation (VEJI) with special guest, Cuban piano master Chucho Valdez. Laura has performed with many talented jazz musicians including, Hugh Fraser, Donnie Clark, Chris Brubeck, and my very talented father, Ian McDougall. She has been performing her unique blend of jazz, blues and gospel music throughout North America for over 25 years and in addition to having a rich performance life, she is also an experienced session singer. Laura lives in Nelson and is married to jazz guitarist Paul Landsberg.

Although Laura has been described as “a remarkably fresh and unpretentious singer,” by the Spokesman Review, perhaps Paul Grant of CBC Radio’s Hot Air put it best when he stated, “with so many singers trying to sound like someone else, it’s a treat to hear Laura Landsberg’s fresh and original voice. She’s a natural.”

Selkirk Faculty Bios

GILLES PARENTEAU - PIANo I’ve been performing professionally on keyboard since I was 14 years old for various venues including night clubs, conventions, concerts, cruise ships, and fashion shows in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Panama and Japan. I’ve performed in many styles of music including pop, classical, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and jazz-fusion.

In addition to my credits as a performer, I have nearly two decades of experience as a professional composer. I have a long-time association with CBC Radio and TV, having scored well over 100 television episodes and every year arranging music and leading the band for a nationwide CBC Radio show showcasing Canadian talent. As well as my scores for media I’ve had the opportunity to write for a wide range of live ensembles including rock and jazz bands, as well as symphonies in Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg. In 1990 I received the CBC’s “Best Song of the Year Award.”

In 2001, I travelled to L.A. and studied with renowned orchestrator, Scott Smalley (one of Hollywood’s leading orchestrators: Batman, Mission Impossible). My most recent composition credits include Dragnuts and Double Exposure and I have released two CDs (“A Gift of Music” and “Gratitude”), in which I continue my collaborations with some of BC¹s finest musicians including Alpha Yaya Dialo and Kim Kuzma. Visit my website to learn more.

MELoDY DIAcHUN - VocALSMelody Diachun (pronounced “DAY-shun”) is a JUNO nominated vocalist, songwriter, educator, performer, and recording artist who has been hailed as “a jazz singer of the first order” (Times Colonist). In 2009 she was nominated for ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at Canada’s National Jazz Awards.

Melody has released three critically acclaimed albums under her own name, all of which are on regular rotation on CBC Radio One. She has also appeared on the recordings of many other artists, notably “Metaphora” by Altered Laws featuring Melody Diachun and The Babayaga String Quartet. The album was named ‘Outstanding Jazz Recording’ at the 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Television appearances include Melody’s own episode of the series “Jazzman”, which airs regularly on BRAVO!TV and The BET Network, and a guest appearance and performance on Joy TV’s “P3: People, Places and Perspectives”. Melody is an accredited juror of The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR), and a member of the following professional organizations: Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN); Société Canadienne de Gestion du Droit de Reproduction (SODRAC); The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, Local 145 (AFM); and, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Melody joined the faculty of the music program at Selkirk College in the fall of 2012.


STEVEN PARISH - DRUMSMentored by the legendary Les Paul at age 17, Steven earned his BA in Audio Engineering from the Berklee College of Music. In addition to studying Drum Set at Berklee, he also studied jazz drum set privately with Frankie Dunlop (Thelonious Monk, Lionel Hampton), Latin rhythms with Frank Malabe and attended master classes presented by the great Buddy Rich.

On stage or in the studio Steven has played with a wide variety of artists including: Les Paul, Rock ‘n’ Roll legend Cub Koda, Ian Hunter, Joe Bouchard of Blue Öyster Cult and Rap artist Stezo-E. He has played Jazz with Anthony Braxton , Pat LaBarbara and Mike Stern among other. He has performed with Selkirk’s long list of visiting artists including: Robben Ford, John Handy, Jimmy Haslip, Max Bennett, Bob Mintzer, Frank Gambale, Pat Mastellotto and Oz Noy, among others.


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Saturday April 25th, 2015 10th Street Gym 7 & 8:30PM

student social and Dance featuringSelkirk college R&B Band

Music to be announced from the stage

Time Groups Assigned7:00pm Chinook High School, Edmonton Christian High School,

Handsworth Secondary School, John Maland High School, St. Mary High School, Templeton Secondary School, Walnut Grove

Secondary School8:30pm All-City Band Society, Alpha Secondary School, Archbishop

MacDonald High School, Holy Cross Regional High School, Marguerite D’Youville Secondary School, Sir John Thompson,

St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary School

Catholic school Mass Cathedral of Mary Immaculate – 813 Ward Street

7:00pm

Directors’ Reception 8:00-9:30pm

featuringLeonard Pallerstein - guitar

Tenise Trueman - vocalPaloma Pendharkar - keyboard

Cody Munn - bassBrennan Buglioni - drums

Laela Heidt - vocalElijah Larsen - vocal

Jonathon Kwak – vocal

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Brian Unverricht (Concert Band)

journal, contributed to local music curricula, and wrote a high school guitar course. Recently he became a mentor teacher for emerging band directors.

Outside of school, Brian has been in demand as a low brass clinician, a conductor and/or coordinator for band camps, Brass Days or Jazz Days, an adjudicator for music festivals, and a conductor of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, where he annually conducts music for their “Silence is Golden” event. In recent years he conducted both the University of Saskatchewan concert band and wind orchestra.

Honours include the Saskatchewan Music Educators outstanding Achievement Award that recognizes outstanding accomplishment and an ongoing dedication to excellence in music in 2004, the Sask. Band Association Distinguished Band Director’s award in 2012, and an honourary life membership in SMEA in 2014. As a trombonist, Brian has been a member of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra for decades, and has performed with various brass quintets and jazz groups over the years. He can also be heard performing with the Toon Town Big Band, the Saskatoon Klezmer band, and the Saskatoon Opera orchestra.

Born, raised, and educated in Saskatchewan, Brian pursued further musical studies in New Jersey, Australia, France, and the University of Calgary. For many years he taught band, choir, jazz studies, guitar, and general music to students from grades seven through university level in Saskatoon, Australia, Prince Edward Island, and military schools in Germany. He is currently a sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, teaching music education classes.

Over the years Brian was musical director for 15 high school musicals, and as a proponent of new music, he commissioned eight composers from Saskatoon to write works for various performing groups. As a writer he has been published in Cadenza, the International Trombone Association Journal, and Canadian Winds, was editor of the Sask. Band Association

Adjudicators

Chee Meng Low (Concert Band)

with the ASEAN Youth Culture Camp (2001). During 2007-2010, Chee Meng served as the Assistant Communications and Planning Manager for the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, developing the education & outreach programs, as well as implementing the daily operations of the orchestra. In addition to that, he also served as one of the saxophone instructors for the College of Music, Mahidol University, coaching private lessons, saxophone quartet and saxophone ensemble and serving the College as assistant to the Deputy Director for Academic and Research Affairs.

A recipient of the University of Alberta FS Chia Doctoral Scholarship, Chee Meng holds a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree from the University of Alberta Canada, under the guidance of William Street (saxophone) and Dennis Prime (conducting). While working on his degree, Chee Meng taught Band Technique and Aural Skills courses at the University of Alberta and served as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the saxophone ensemble, symphonic wind ensemble, and concert band.

Chee Meng was a member of the International Committee, World Saxophone Congress (2006-2009), regional representative of the Asia Pacific Band Directors’ Association (2007-2010), and current member of the North American Saxophone Alliance and Alberta Band Association.

Chee Meng Low, a native of Malaysia, is the director of the University of Lethbridge Wind Orchestra, as well as the instructor of saxophone and musicianship skills. He is also involved with the Symphonic Winds of NSO Malaysia, UofL Faculty Wind Sextet, Edmonton Saxophone Quartet, and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Canada, Europe and Asia. Chee Meng has previously held positions in the Thailand Saxophone Ensemble (2005-2009), Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (2007-2009), Southeast Asian Youth Wind Ensemble (2001, 2002), WASBE International Youth Wind Orchestra (2005), and also a fellowship

Adjudicators Continued...


Robert Spittle (Concert Band)

and for communicating more openly and directly to a listener - has been developing since his adolescent years as serious flute student in the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Prep progam, and a free-lance saxophonist in horn sections of jazz, r&b and other dance bands on the city’s west side.

An interest in wind music developed at Ohio State University, where he studied conducting with Craig Kirchhoff. He later studied with renowned wind conductors Michael Haithcock and Eugene Corporon, and received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1995.

Robert is a Professor of Music at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, USA.

American conductor and composer of music for band, orchestra, chamber ensembles and electronic media. His music has been described as “original”,”inventive and witty”, “intelligent” and “full of musicality” and is published by Shaba Road Music, Boosey & Hawkes Co., and Maestro and Fox Music. Robert’s works have won favor with the finest professional and academic musicians in North America, Europe and Asia.

His works frequently combine sophisticated art music forms and techniques with a non-patronizing sensitivity toward audience accessibility. This duality - the musician’s concern for aesthetic sophistication and artistic integrity,


Dominic Gregorio (Choral)

Music History, and afterward, moved to Taiwan for one year and served as an Assistant Conductor for the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation Choirs, also learning Mandarin Chinese on a grant through the Taiwanese government. Dr. Gregorio is a former Artistic Director of Singing Out, The Toronto Lesbian and Gay Choir and a former conductor and founder of the University of Guelph Women’s Choir, Siren. Dr. Gregorio is also a proud former member of the Ontario Youth Choir, the Canadian National Youth Choir and the Canadian Chamber Choir.

Dr. Gregorio has won numerous awards including the Presser Music Award which enabled him to live and study for a semester in Vienna, Austria, the G. Nixon Leadership Award, the Carrow Teaching Award, the Edward Johnson Foundation Award, and is listed in the “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.” In 2009, Dr. Gregorio was a semi-finalist in the ACDA Graduate Student Conducting Competition and in 2002 was the winner of the Westminster Choir College Graduate Voice Competition

Born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, of Filipino immigrants, Dr. Gregorio is interested in the choral and vocal music of the Philippines, Taiwan and India. While living in India in 2010 completing an intensive Yoga Teacher Training in the birthplace of yoga, Rishikesh, Dr. Gregorio took daily lessons in Harmonium and Kirtan Chanting and is interested in the benefits of yoga, meditation and breathing exercises for singers.

Dominic C. Gregorio is the Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Choral Music at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. In 2012, he graduated with the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angelos

Dr. Gregorio was the conductor of the McMaster University Choir in 2011-2012 At the University of Southern California, Dr. Gregorio was Chorus Master for the USC Thornton Opera and was the Conductor of the USC Thornton Apollo Men’s Choir. Dr. Gregorio also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in choral conducting. In Los Angeles, Dr. Gregorio also served as a Conductor and Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles

At Temple University in Philadelphia, Dr. Gregorio completed a Triple Masters Degree in Music, in Choral Conducting, Voice Performance, and


Jared Burrows (Jazz Band)

Oregon, and the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Since 2008 he has curated the weekly Jazz at Presentation House concert series in North Vancouver. Past community music leadership roles include the South Delta Jazz Festival and Jazz Workshop (founder and co-director 2003-2013), Freedom Festival of Improvised Music (founder and artistic director 2000-2005), the Hundredth Monkey new music ensemble (co-founder and co-director 1998-2000), and East Van Jazz Orchestra (co-founder and co-director 2007-2010).

In addition to performing and composing, his research interests include cognitive theories applied to improvisation and Confucian, Taoist and Sufi philosophies applied to problems in music education. His work has been presented in academic conferences and in guest lectures across Canada, the US and the UK and has been published in College Music Symposium, Jazz Educators Journal, BC Music Educators Journal, Critical Studies in Improvisation, and in the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies.

Jared holds a PhD in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University. His doctoral research explored an alternative paradigm for music education based on improvisation and his thesis supervisor was the pianist and philosopher, Yaroslav Senyshyn. He has a MMus in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon where he was mentored by the great educator and musician, Steve Owen and studied composition under Robert Kyr and David Crumb. His early teachers included Rudolph Komorous, Martin Gotfrit, David MacIntyre (composition) and Ihor Kukurudza (guitar).

Dr. Jared Burrows is the Academic Coordinator of the Jazz Studies Department and teaches improvisation, conducting, arranging, and directs small and large ensembles. He is a dynamic force on the Vancouver scene as a performer, composer and community organizer. He works in a huge variety of ensembles in jazz, new music, and world music settings and leads the Jared Burrows Quartet and Sextet and the Vancouver Improvisers Orchestra. Jared performs as a sideman with Dave Robbins Electric Band, the Offering of Curtis Andrews, Sancharam Trio, Delta Quartet, Michael Vlatkovich Quintet, Colin MacDonald’s Pocket Orchestra, Koan, Len Aruliah Sextet, and the Brad Muirhead 4tet, to name only a few.

Before coming to Capilano, Jared taught at Douglas College, Simon Fraser University, University of

For more information on this and our other festivals in EDMONTON,

SUN PEAKS and WHISTLER, visit our website at:

www.cantando.org

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