In/trospective

Reflections in Jazz and Classical Sound
Concert
Convocation Hall, University of Saskatchewan
By donation. Suggested donation $25.

About this Concert

The Strata Festival of New Music is partnering with the University of Saskatchewan, and professor of Brass and Jazz Studies trumpeter Dean McNeill, to not only feature music from his upcoming album, but also the music of several of Canada’s finest jazz and classical crossover composers.

Among these composers include four time Juno winner David Braid, and Fred Stride the composer for the Vancouver Olympic Games. 

These new works, commissioned by Dean McNeill are mediations on memory, melancholy, and the passage of time.  The music will be performed by the Strata Ensemble.

Composers:

Performers: 

  • Stephanie Unverricht (bassoon)
  • Dean McNeill (trumpet)
  • Jim Legge (viola)
  • Scott Mcknight (cello)
  • Drusilla Waltz (violin)
  • Troy Morris (bass)
  • Wagner Barbosa (violin)
  • Bonnie Nicholson (piano)
  • Eric Braley (clarinet)

Details

Convocation Hall, University of Saskatchewan
Convocation Hall, Administration Place, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Dean McNeill

Composer/Arranger/Trumpeter

Via deanmcneill.com/about-epk:

Downbeat magazine award winning Canadian trumpet player/composer Dean McNeill is a Full Professor at the University of Saskatchewan where he has taught applied trumpet, trumpet choir, jazz history, jazz ensemble, jazz materials, jazz improvisation, jazz pedagogy, and jazz arranging for many years. Dean holds music degrees from the University of North Texas (Masters), McGill University (Undergraduate), and Grant MacEwan College (Music Diploma). Dean has recently released two critically acclaimed CDs respectively entitled Prairie Fire: Large Jazz Ensemble Music of Dean McNeill and Mélange: New Music For Trumpet and Piano.

A recipient of the U of S Department of Music’s Dwaine Nelson Teaching Award Dean has performed and adjudicated throughout Canada and the United States and has performed both classical and jazz repertoire on CBC Radio. Dean has performed on the Western Canadian Music Awards Classical Showcase concert and he was recently the guest soloist with both the National Youth Band of Canada and the New Edmonton Wind Synfonia.

In 2011 Dean will record with the New Edmonton Wind Synfonia, Allan Gilliland’s solo trumpet/wind ensemble piece entitled ‘Kalla’. Kalla was premiered by Dean and the 2008 National Youth Band of Canada.

Dean has composed and arranged music for symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, large and small brass ensembles, jazz combo, and large jazz ensemble. Dean’s arrangements of the jazz standard All of You won an award from Downbeat Magazine for University Student Arrangement of the Year.

Artist Website