Friday, February 3, 2012 - 10 p.m.
Tickets: $22.50 (3-ticket packages for Winter Jazzfest concerts at the NAC Fourth Stage available for $45; phone 613-241-2633)
- Quinsin Nachoff - tenor sax, compositions
- Dave Binney - alto sax
- Matt Mitchell - Fender Rhodes
- Kenny Wollesen - drums
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
See our story about the 2012 Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival.
National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage
53 Elgin Street
Ottawa