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Back by popular demand, trumpeter Chase Sanborn presents Jazz Tactics! In this entertaining and informative session, Chase is joined by his long time musical partner Mark Eisenman on piano. Chase and Mark will perform tunes from their just-recorded duo CD, and together they will take the audience on a guided tour into the mind of the jazz musician. Part of the session will also focus on the business of music, based on Chase's recent book Music Business Tactics. Bring your ears and bring questions!

Biography

Jazz trumpeter and Yamaha Artist Chase Sanborn is a well-known figure on the Toronto jazz scene. His CDs can be heard regularly on 91.1, JazzFM. A dedicated jazz educator, Chase teaches at the University of Toronto and is the author of four books about the world of music: Jazz Tactics, Brass Tactics, Tuning Tactics and Music Business Tactics.

www.chasesanborn.com

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Join professional dancer, choreographer and educator Karen Andrew for an evening of Jazz Dance. Adults will be introduced to Ms. Andrew’s ‘Jazz Dance Basics’ workshop which offers participants the opportunity to become more familiar with their bodies through a series of warm-ups, progressions, turns and jazz choreography to end the evening. If you have ever said, “I don’t know anything about dance” or I don’t know how to dance”, this workshop is for you!! The workshop is for anyone who has ever had a passion, desire or interest in learning to dance a place to begin.

Ms. Andrew shares her passion and love for jazz dance with students daily across the city of Toronto in various schools and colleges as well as at her Corktown Studio, Aurora Live Inc. Dance Studios. Join her and share her love of dance.

www.auroraliveinc.com

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Join professional dancer, choreographer, educator and studio owner, Karen Andrew for an evening of Jazz Dance. Children will be introduced to beginner jazz dance in a fun and playful way. Ms. Andrew will introduce basic principles and techniques including warm-ups, turns, jumps and much more. Parents are welcome.

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Join Heather Bambrick as she takes you through the paces of Jazz Vocalizing, from tone placement and timbre, to swing feel and improvising. Work out your voice and your creativity!!

Biography

Heather Bambrick, winner of the 2004 National Jazz Award for Vocalist of the Year, is in demand as a performer, educator, and broadcaster. The native Newfoundlander is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, and is currently on faculty both at U of T and Humber College. She has performed with international Jazz artists, including Phil Nimmons, Kenny Wheeler, Guido Basso, Darmon Meader, Peter Appleyard, John Lamb, and Rob McConnell.

Heather has recorded with numerous acts, including the Royal Jelly Orchestra, Carol Welsman, the Caliban Quartet, and The Beehive Singers. Her own debut CD It’s About Time (2003) was nominated for Best Jazz Recording at the 2004 East Coast Music Awards and is enjoying international praise and radio airplay. Her follow-up recording Those Were The Days is has also been nominated for Best Jazz Recording at the 2007 East Coast Music Awards. She is a guest vocalist (along with theatre great Rudy Webb) on a new release featuring the music of Irving Berlin and award winning actor, musician, and songwriter Irving Dobbs.

On stage, Heather is a consummate entertainer, performing for standing room only crowds at venues across Canada and in the US and bringing audiences to their feet at some of the country’s most prestigious music festivals. Her live shows are a combination of timeless songs, brilliant musicianship, and Heather’s unique sense of humour – all adding up to pure entertainment.

Heather’s voice has been heard throughout North America on radio and television commercials, as well as on film and television soundtracks. Since 2001, Heather has firmly entrenched herself in the world of broadcasting, hosting the highly popular “Sunday Afternoon Jazz”, on Canada’s only all-Jazz radio station, Jazz FM91. Heather was honoured with Broadcaster of the Year awards at both the 2005 and 2007 National Jazz Awards.

Visit Heather on line at: www.heatherbambrick.com

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Award Winning Jazz Pianist, Robi Botos will talk about and demonstrate the importance of rhythm and time for soloists. He will also focus on rhythm in the bebop style.

This will be a highly interactive format with lots of opportunities for questions and for Robi to answer and demonstrate his techniques on the piano.

Biography

Robi Botos was born into a musical Romani family in Hungary. Mainly self-taught, Robi Botos (28) began his musical career when he was just a child, playing drums, and percussion with his father and two brothers. Since immigrating to Canada in 1998, Robi has made great contributions to Canada's jazz scene. He has been featured with many local and international greats.

Awards: 1987 First prize at the Hungarian AORTA national jazz band competition. 1998 "Best Soloist" prize at the Hungarian Bartok Radio's international jazz piano competition. 2004 First prize and public prize at the International Montreux Jazz Festival's solo piano competition. 2005 Best soloist prize and 2nd place at the International "Jazz Hoeilaart" band competition in Belgium. 2005 Official IAJE (International association for jazz education) award in Long Beach, California. 2006 Runner up at the Great American Jazz Piano Competition. 2006 Nomination for "keyboardist of the year" at the National jazz awards. 2006 3rd prize at the "Martial Solal" Piano Competition in Paris France. 2006 JUNO Nomination for "contemporary jazz album of the year" for "One Take". 2006 National Jazz Award nomination for "Keyboardist Of The Year" 2007 National Jazz Award for "Keyboardist Of the Year" 2007 Finalist at the "Great American Jazz Piano Competition" in Jacksonville Florida. 2007 NOW award for "Best Jazz Artist" 2008 National Jazz Award Nomination for "Keyboardist Of The Year" 2008 First prize Winner at the "Great American Jazz Piano Competition" in Jacksonville Florida.

www.myspace.com/robibotosmusic

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Guitarist Michael Occhipinti performs in a number of styles and uses a broad palette of sounds including electronics. For this workshop, he'll discuss his own experience learning (and continuing to learn) the guitar and the areas that he thinks most developing guitarists need to work on. He'll discuss practicing, ideas for improvising, playing melodies and chords, how he thinks about tone and sound, and welcomes students to influence the direction of the clinic with their own questions. Guitarists are welcome to bring their instruments as the clinic may involve some playing.

Biography

Guitarist/composer and arranger, Michael Occhipinti is an eight-time JUNO Award nominee and winner, including a 2009 nomination for his latest recording The Sicilian Jazz Project. The Sicilian Jazz Project showcases the inventiveness of Michael’s writing and his broad palette of guitar sounds, and his group will be performing world-wide in 2009, with concerts in Mexico, the U.S., across Canada, and Italy.

From the outset of Michael Occhipinti’s career, he has focused on creating original music, and in 1994 he formed the 16-piece ensemble NOJO with pianist/composer Paul Neufeld. All five of the group’s recordings have been JUNO nominated (including the band’s 1995 debut which won the award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.

In 2000, Michael Occhipinti released the acclaimed and JUNO nominated recording Creation Dream -The Songs of Bruce Cockburn featuring Michael’s ambitious arrangements of music by one of Canada's best-loved songwriters. In October 2008, National Public Radio in the U.S. named Creation Dream as one of six Canadian CDs (alongside piano genius Glenn Gould) Americans should know about.

Michael Occhipinti is the Artistic Director for the CAMMAC Ontario Music Centre Summer Music Camp and teaches jazz combos at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Michael is a guest clinician at colleges, universities and high schools across Canada. Michael Occhipinti has been profiled on Bravo's Arts and Minds, CBC television's On The Arts, CBC radio's On Stage and Jazz Beat, CTV’s Mike Bullard Show and TV Ontario's Studio 2.

www.michaelocchipinti.com

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Rumba is one of the most popular and original forms of Cuban music. It's based in the combination of different rhythms originating from the mix of African and European roots. It was developed in Cuba in the 19 century. The workshop will explore some of these rhythms and how they are played on the drums (congas) as well as a brief demonstration of how to dance these rhythms. Participants are asked to bring their drums and their dancing shoes...

Biography

Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo has had a successful music career in Cuba, performing in multiple music events and festivals and sharing the stage with some of Cuba's most elite musicians such as "Changuito", Hilario Duran, Emiliano Salvador. Finally settling in Canada in 1999 Joaquin quickly became immersed into the Toronto circle of music. Other than finding him performing in most of the festivals in the country as well as internationally Joaquin also brings his vast musical experience to the classroom by offering numerous clinics and workshops in various locations in the greater Toronto area. He is the leader and director of the Afro-Cuban percussion ensemble "Rumba Iyabo" and recently a part of the musical production of "Dirty Dancing" at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.

www.rumberos.ca

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Most of the songs that jazz musicians refer to as "standards" started out as popular songs, and today many musicians are looking to everything from the Beatles to Joni Mitchell to Nirvana and Radiohead to develop their own songbooks. For this workshop, Michael Occipinti will use audio examples to illustrate and discuss how different jazz musicians are approaching pop music and will share the arranging ideas he used for his recordings, Creation Dream: The Songs of Bruce Cockburn and his more recent The Sicilian Jazz Project (which turns Sicilian folk tunes into jazz). This clinic is open to anyone and will benefit both music fans simply looking for insight into how jazz musicians approach songs, and to musicians with a knowledge of theory who are interested in creating their own arrangements.

Biography

Guitarist/composer and arranger, Michael Occhipinti is an eight-time JUNO Award nominee and winner, including a 2009 nomination for his latest recording The Sicilian Jazz Project. The Sicilian Jazz Project showcases the inventiveness of Michael’s writing and his broad palette of guitar sounds, and his group will be performing world-wide in 2009, with concerts in Mexico, the U.S., across Canada, and Italy.

From the outset of Michael Occhipinti’s career, he has focused on creating original music, and in 1994 he formed the 16-piece ensemble NOJO with pianist/composer Paul Neufeld. All five of the group’s recordings have been JUNO nominated (including the band’s 1995 debut which won the award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.

In 2000, Michael Occhipinti released the acclaimed and JUNO nominated recording Creation Dream -The Songs of Bruce Cockburn featuring Michael’s ambitious arrangements of music by one of Canada's best-loved songwriters. In October 2008, National Public Radio in the U.S. named Creation Dream as one of six Canadian CDs (alongside piano genius Glenn Gould) Americans should know about.

Michael Occhipinti is the Artistic Director for the CAMMAC Ontario Music Centre Summer Music Camp and teaches jazz combos at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Michael is a guest clinician at colleges, universities and high schools across Canada. Michael Occhipinti has been profiled on Bravo's Arts and Minds, CBC television's On The Arts, CBC radio's On Stage and Jazz Beat, CTV’s Mike Bullard Show and TV Ontario's Studio 2.

www.michaelocchipinti.com