Canadian Jazz Composers Workshop - July 22-26, 2024, featuring David Braid in-person, in Winnipeg!
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Some kind comments by an attendee of the workshop:
The composition workshop with David Braid, organized and hosted by Richard Gillis and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, was a wonderful week of learning, connecting with colleagues, and meeting creative music makers from around the country. The opportunity to work with Mr. Braid and learn about his compositions, his unique composing processes, and his views on the fundamentals of music were invaluable. I can already say that the information I gained will inform my musical outlook and compositional practice for the foreseeable future. I am extremely grateful to Prof. Gillis, Mrs. Gillis and the WJO for providing this opportunity, for the openness to host this workshop at their home, and for all their other efforts that went into this amazing opportunity for musicians in the community and beyond.
Derek Frykas
B. Mus, B. Ed., PBD Jazz Performance
Music Educator, Winnipeg School Division
The composition workshop with David Braid, organized and hosted by Richard Gillis and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, was a wonderful week of learning, connecting with colleagues, and meeting creative music makers from around the country. The opportunity to work with Mr. Braid and learn about his compositions, his unique composing processes, and his views on the fundamentals of music were invaluable. I can already say that the information I gained will inform my musical outlook and compositional practice for the foreseeable future. I am extremely grateful to Prof. Gillis, Mrs. Gillis and the WJO for providing this opportunity, for the openness to host this workshop at their home, and for all their other efforts that went into this amazing opportunity for musicians in the community and beyond.
Derek Frykas
B. Mus, B. Ed., PBD Jazz Performance
Music Educator, Winnipeg School Division
Composition Seminar with David Braid
On July 22-26, 2024 (Monday-Friday inclusive), the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra will host a Composition Seminar with Canadian Composer David Braid. David is a brilliant and versatile composer who has written for a number of ensembles and is a tentime nominee and four-time recipient of Juno awards. Please check out his bio at: www.davidbraid.com/DavidBraidBiography.html
This will be a wonderful opportunity to get to know and learn from one of Canada’s great artists! Schedule: Sessions will run daily from Monday to Friday, July 22-26 @ 9:30am – 12:00pm & 1:00- 2:30pm. The sessions are designed to be flexible and will respond to the interests of the participants. Optional activities will be scheduled in the evenings.
Registration: Deadline for registration at app.arts-people.com/index.php?class_id=wjo~109688 is June 30/24.
Tuition is $500. (Optional outings or evening events are purchased on your own)
Registration may be capped at 12 participants.
Contact Richard Gillis for any questions: [email protected]
Sponsors: The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Thanks to the Desautels Faculty of Music
Donations toward this project are welcomed and will receive a tax receipt. (https://www.winnipegjazzorchestra.com/donate.html)
These sessions will be in English.
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David Braid - Winner of 2 Canadian Screen Awards, Best Original Score, Best Original Song Used in A Film (2017), nominated, Best Original Song Used in a Film (2022), and winner of four Juno Awards.
Hailed "one of of Canada's true Renaissance men" (The Ottawa Citizen) composer, improviser, and pianist, David Braid is a ten-time nominee and four-time recipient of Canada's highest music prize (Juno Award). David Braid is a Steinway Artist, Composer-in-Residence for Sinfonia UK Collective, Guest Artist of the Danish National Music Conservatory, and Affiliate Artist of the University of Liverpool’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Composition and Technology. First emerging as an "Ace Jazz Pianist" (The New York Observer) Braid turned to composing chamber music prioritizing narrative, colour, rhythm, spontaneity, and inclusion of musical techniques absorbed from over twenty years of international artistic collaboration. Concertizing throughout the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, The Far East, Australia, Brazil, and Canada his original music is described as: "brilliant" (Montreal Gazette), "enchanting" (The Age, Australia), "une force poétique" (Le Soleil), and "hauntingly beautiful" (The Globe & Mail). His first instrumental chamber music album, FLOW (Steinway & Sons Label) with the Epoque Quartet (Prague) is described by the Los Angeles Examiner as “an exceptional work... created with patience, love and understanding of the human condition, form, and structure”. His first choral composition, “Corona Divinae Misericordiae” was nominated for Classical Album of the Year in Canada, and his first film score won two CSAs (Canadian Screen Awards) for “Best Original Score” and “Best Original Song". Braid’s brief foray into writing dramatic music includes arrangements and compositions for the Chet Baker-inspired bio-pic, "Born to Be Blue" starring Ethan Hawke, considered by The Telegraph (UK) as one of the top jazz films of all time. Braid's jazz score was praised for its "contemporary patina without sacrificing period authenticity" (The Times, UK). He also received a CSA nomination for his orchestra score to the 2022 film, “Delia’s Gone” starring Stephan James and Marisa Tomei. Braid is a recipient of the Ontario Foundation for the Arts’ prestigious prize: "Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry".
Hailed "one of of Canada's true Renaissance men" (The Ottawa Citizen) composer, improviser, and pianist, David Braid is a ten-time nominee and four-time recipient of Canada's highest music prize (Juno Award). David Braid is a Steinway Artist, Composer-in-Residence for Sinfonia UK Collective, Guest Artist of the Danish National Music Conservatory, and Affiliate Artist of the University of Liverpool’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Composition and Technology. First emerging as an "Ace Jazz Pianist" (The New York Observer) Braid turned to composing chamber music prioritizing narrative, colour, rhythm, spontaneity, and inclusion of musical techniques absorbed from over twenty years of international artistic collaboration. Concertizing throughout the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, Central Asia, The Far East, Australia, Brazil, and Canada his original music is described as: "brilliant" (Montreal Gazette), "enchanting" (The Age, Australia), "une force poétique" (Le Soleil), and "hauntingly beautiful" (The Globe & Mail). His first instrumental chamber music album, FLOW (Steinway & Sons Label) with the Epoque Quartet (Prague) is described by the Los Angeles Examiner as “an exceptional work... created with patience, love and understanding of the human condition, form, and structure”. His first choral composition, “Corona Divinae Misericordiae” was nominated for Classical Album of the Year in Canada, and his first film score won two CSAs (Canadian Screen Awards) for “Best Original Score” and “Best Original Song". Braid’s brief foray into writing dramatic music includes arrangements and compositions for the Chet Baker-inspired bio-pic, "Born to Be Blue" starring Ethan Hawke, considered by The Telegraph (UK) as one of the top jazz films of all time. Braid's jazz score was praised for its "contemporary patina without sacrificing period authenticity" (The Times, UK). He also received a CSA nomination for his orchestra score to the 2022 film, “Delia’s Gone” starring Stephan James and Marisa Tomei. Braid is a recipient of the Ontario Foundation for the Arts’ prestigious prize: "Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry".
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