Courses and workshops

Friday, February 17, 2011
Part IIIA: 10 a.m. to noon
Part IIIB: 2 to 4 p.m.
Free admission

Speaker: Dr. John Chong, an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injuries suffered by musicians and performers.

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Freiman Hall (Room 121)
Pérez Building (610 Cumberland Street)
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON

Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 1 to 3 p.m.
Tickets: $15 ($10 for students). Limited seating available
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Inside the Music presents Patrick Breiner for a saxophone and improvisation masterclass.

Saxophonists from the Capital Youth Jazz Orchestra will perform in a workshop format for Patrick, along with the HML Trio. Patrick will also give a short performance. Open to all, musicians and listeners alike.

Patrick is also available for private instruction on Thursday, February 9 and Friday, February 10. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to book a time.

Patrick Breiner, originally from Baltimore, received a BFA in Jazz Performance from New School University in May 2006. While at the New School he studied with saxophone greats such as Tony Malaby, Eric Alexander, Dave Glasser, Rich Perry, and George Garzone and saxophonist/clarinetist Chris Speed. These teachers as well as pianists Armen Donelian, Junior Mance, and John Hicks; saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom; drummer Billy Hart; trumpeter Charles Toliver; and bassists Reggie Workman and Andy McKee helped shape Patrick’s approach to playing and composing music.

A veteran of New York’s jazz scene, Patrick is also an active member in groups as varied as Billy Hart’s “Academy” band (jazz quintet), Bing and Ruth (live ambient music), NOOK (instrumental /improvisational rock), Basement Magic (jazz trio), Sauce (classical/jazz/dance fusion), Volker Goetze’s Big Band and Quintet (modern jazz), Solomon Douglas’s Swingtet (swing era dance band), and Myk Freedman’s Suit and Whistle Sound Band (jazz/folk/circus/klezmer).
Patrick can be heard on recordings by Bing and Ruth, NOOK, Jean Rohe, Solomon Douglas Swingtet and a CD of his own solo saxophone compositions entitled Vartan Mamigonian.

See our interview with Tim Bedner about the Inside the Music series.

Inside the Music Lecture, Concert and Workshop Series is a presentation that strives to bring the audience an opportunity to get to know the guest artist and his or her music background.

During the presentation, jazz musician, teacher and organizer Tim Bedner asks key questions of the guest artist who will then elaborate on who they studied with, their influences, their inspiration. The audience is encouraged to further this discussion during the Q & A session.

In combination with the lecture our guest artist will either provide a workshop, a demonstration or a concert. Tim Bedner will often participate providing accompaniment or forming the second half of a duo. Inside the Music is held in the quiet intimate space of Gigspace at Alcorn Music Studios. Registration is limited to in order to maintain the sense of being a part of the experience.

GigSpace
Alcorn Music Studios
953 Gladstone Ave. @ Loretta (Little Italy area, one block west of Preston Street)
Ottawa
www.alcornmusicstudios.com
www.gigspaceottawa.com

Friday, February 3, 2012 - 3 to 5 p.m.
Admission: $10 ($5 for students)

Carleton University will host an afternoon workshop by Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux. Nachoff, Canadian-born but based in New York City, is not only a leading innovator on tenor saxophone but also a clarinetist and composer. He has toured extensively across the globe as both a leader and a sideman. Nachoff has also completed many significant commissions, composing in contemporary and classical styles as easily as he does in the jazz idiom. His musical talents have been recognised through many awards, including a Juno Award.

Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux—comprised of Dave Binney on alto saxophone; Matt Mitchell on the Fender Rhodes electric piano; Kenny Wolleson on drums; and Nachoff himself on tenor saxophone—will lead this workshop as part of the first annual Ottawa Winter JazzFest. They will perform again at 10:30 p.m. at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. The workshop will mark the beginning of a partnership between the Ottawa Jazz Festival and Carleton University. This year, the Winter JazzFest is being introduced to the Ottawa Jazz Festival concert series by artistic director Petr Cancura, a Carleton University Music alumnus.

NYC-based Canadian saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Quinsin “Nachoff is one of the truly bright younger jazz minds hereabouts” (Globe and Mail).  His CD of original music, Magic Numbers (Songlines), was heralded as “one of the most innovative chamber jazz recordings in recent years"(allaboutjazz.com).

He has recently completed several weighty commissions. A suite for Australian trumpeter Peter Knight’s 5+2 Brass Ensemble was premiered in June 2011 at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. An extended work for big band was commissioned by the Greg Runions big band and was premiered in September 2010 with guest soloist trumpet ace Tim Hagans. A commission for contemporary music ensemble Toca Loca was released on Centrediscs (2009). Nachoff is currently working on a Violin Concerto commission for virtuoso Montreal violinist Nathalie Bonin and a classical work for clarinetist Peter Stoll and the Cecilia String Quartet.

He has toured internationally and nationally as a leader and is also active as a sideman with a multitude of creative projects in Canada, the United States and Europe. Most recently he was in Australia for a 3-week tour of his disc FoMo, and in France with Bruno Tocanne’s Collective New Dreams. He has performed throughout Europe, North America, Japan, China, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand.

Nachoff was the winner of a 2007 Chalmers Fellowship, the 2004 KM Hunter Award in Music, semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition, a winner in the Canada Council Jazz I.D. Showcase and has been nominated for numerous Canadian National Jazz Awards, including Saxophonist and Clarinetist of the Year (2007 & 2008). “...a fascinating mind…exquisite, forlorn tenor” - Downbeat Magazine “...an impressive display of sizzling, post-Coltrane inventiveness.” - Don Heckman, LA Times

www.quinsin.com

www2.carleton.ca/music/events/

Kailash Mital Theatre
Carleton University
[directions and map: www.carleton.ca/ims/alth15.html]

Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuition: $30

The ABCs of jazz singing, with jazz vocalist Nicole Ratté.

It's the first of a series of workshops hosted by jazz vocalist Nicole Ratté every fourth Thursday of the month at 7:30 until 10 p.m.

This week, Nicole will guide jazz beginners into the discovery of jazz. She will talk about what's a jazz standard, its structure, intros & endings, the characteristics of jazz, etc.

More information:  819 665-2906 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Or see www.vocaljazzworkshops.com .

GigSpace
Alcorn Music Studios
953 Gladstone Ave. @ Loretta (Little Italy area, one block west of Preston Street)
Ottawa
www.alcornmusicstudios.com
www.gigspaceottawa.com