faculty
Workshop Faculty 2008
Len Aruliah - saxophones photo: Sharon Wright |
Len is a freelance musician based in London, England. He currently performs with the Len Aruliah Quartet and has recently recorded a new CD called “Full Circle” with this group. Len also works with a variety of UK ensembles including the Hot Orange Big Band, Medusa Saxophone Quartet, Paul Weinreb's Tarantula, and singer Krestine Havemann. He has also toured the UK with singer Gene Pitney and has worked in musical theatre in London’s West End. Prior to his move to the UK, Aruliah has been an important part of the jazz scenes in Vancouver and Montreal and has toured the world playing music on various cruise lines. Len has studied at the Banff Centre and UBC with many great musicians including Hugh Fraser, Kenny Wheeler, Pat LaBarbera, Norma Winstone, Don Thompson, David Branter, Julia Nolan, and Stan Karp. Len holds a B.Mus. degree from UBC and is an experienced music educator working in various private schools in London. |
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Dr.
Jared Burrows - guitar (Workshop Co-director)  photo: Delta Optimist  |
Jared Burrows is a guitarist, composer, and educator based in Vancouver. He leads the Jared Burrows Trio and Quartet and co-leads the East Van Jazz Orchestra with Brad Muirhead. Burrows is involved with a huge variety of other including Djangophilia, Sukha Trio, the Knotty Ensemble, Colin MacDonald's Pocket Orchestra, Len Aruliah's Quartet, the Indo-jazz fusion band Ta Ki Ta and the Chinese music/jazz fusion group Koan to name a few. He currently teaches at Douglas College and Delta Community Music School, directs elementary school bands in Delta and Surrey and is on faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. He holds a PhD in Education from Simon Fraser University and a MMus in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon, where he taught in the Jazz Studies department |
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Edward Orgill - saxophone
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Edward Orgill is an award
winning saxophonist and composer who has enjoyed a colorful career
performing around the world. His credits include playing Lead Alto
Saxophone with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra under the direction of Buddy
Morrow, and performances with Dick Hyman, Marion McPartland, Bob Wilbur,
Michael Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Ernie Watts, John Abercrombie, and many more,
with appearances at The North Sea and Montreaux Jazz Festivals, The
International Association for Jazz Education Convention, and The Oregon
Festival of American Music. Ed has also been a woodwind specialist and
featured soloist on the Inaugural World Voyage of Holland America Line’s
Flagship M.S. Rotterdam, the Inaugural Season on Princess Cruises’ M.S. Sun
Princess, and the Inaugural Voyage to China and the Far East on Crystal
Cruises’ M.S. Crystal Symphony. Ed is currently putting the finishing
touches on a Doctorate of Arts Degree in Saxophone Performance and Pedagogy
with a secondary emphasis in Jazz Pedagogy from the University of Northern
Colorado, and holds Masters of Music Degrees in both Woodwind Performance
and Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. Currently, Ed is a visiting
lecturer and Jazz Ensemble director at Westfield State College in western
Massachusetts. |
Rob
Kohler - strings / bass photo - Sharon Wright |
Rob Kohler is a bassist who has performed jazz, classical, and pop music all over the world. His playing, composing, and producing skills have appeared on recordings by groups such as the Jared Burrows Trio, the Olem Alves Band, Three Form, This World, and the Platt/Kohler Trio. Rob is a regular performer at the Bozeman Bass Bash in his native Montana and has also toured and performed with such artists as Stefan Karlsson, Alice DiMicele, Madeline Eastman, John Stowell, Danny Gottlieb, Nancy King, Brian Bromberg, and Art Lande. In addition to his amazing performing skills, Kohler has had a long and successful career as a private tutor and school music teacher and currently serves as the Education Director at the world-renowned Stanford Jazz Workshop. |
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Stephen
Robb - winds / piano (Workshop Co-director)  photo - Chris Bryan (South Delta Leader |
Stephen is an accomplished clarinetist, jazz pianist, saxophonist, and arranger performing both classical chamber music and jazz idioms, performing the gamut from classical clarinet, chamber and orchestral repertoire to jazz standards, original compositions and free improvisation. Stephen is a graduate of Queen's University at Kingston, McGill University in Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Currently Stephen is Music Director of both the Delta Community Music School, and the Delta Youth Orchestra, and teaches clarinet and saxophone at the Richmond Music School and Trinity Western University. |
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Chris Trinidad -
bass
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Chris Trinidad lives an eclectic, diverse, rich, and varied life as a musician, teacher, scholar, producer, and conductor. After graduating from Capilano College with a degree in jazz studies, he entered the Metro Vancouver music scene as a first-call bass guitarist with various latin jazz, salsa, and Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Brazilian groups including Rumba Calzada, Ache Brasil, Shango Ashe, and Xarabanda. He is also in demand as a recording engineer and producer for Elemental Musicworks studio and operates the independent record label, Iridium Records. Chris is an experienced teacher and is presently head of music education and director of choral studies at St Thomas More Collegiate, where he directs the award-winning Voices Utopia Chamber Choir, Collegiate Chorale, and the Twelfth Avenue Vocal Jazz group. In addition to his work as a musician and educator, Chris is very active in academic research and is pursuing a Master’s degree in music education at UBC. He is a member of an international think tank called the MayDay Group, co-editor of the BC Music Educators’ Association journal, and is a regular contributor to the Canadian Music Educators’ Journal. For more information, visit his website: www.christrinidad.com . |
Stan
Taylor - drums 
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Veteran jazz drummer
Stan Taylor has been an integral part of the Vancouver jazz scene for
more than 20 years. Stan has played with such artists as Kenny Wheeler,
PJ Perry, Vinny Golia, Pat LaBarbara, Ray Anderson, Rob Blakeslee,
Fraser MacPherson, Mike Stern, Glen Spearman, Peter Brotzman, Hugh
Fraser, and Paul Plimley. In the1990s Stan co-led the legendary Kane/
Taylor Explosion which toured and performed in Canada and the US with
the Kokoro Dance Company. Current projects and collaborations include
the Jared Burrows Trio and Quartet, Len Aruliah Quartet, ESQ, Daniel
Miles Kane Quartet, Lorne Kellet Trio, East Van Jazz Orchestra, Shift,
Norm Quinn's Q4 and many others. Stan is actively involved in recording
and performing with these bands and is a sought after private
instructor. Stan is a Peace Drums and Istanbul Agop Cymbals endorser. |
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Brad Muirhead - trombone
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Brad Muirhead is well known to audiences
across Canada and Europe for his powerful sound and inventive
improvising and has been involved in theVancouver music scene as a
performer, composer and arranger for more than 20 years. He has recorded
and toured extensively with his own groups Primal Orbit and Brass Roots
as well as the NOW Orchestra, Hugh Fraser's VEJI, and the Hard Rubber
Orchestra. His latest original projects as a leader are "Koan", a
Chinese influenced ethno-jazz-rock-fusion sextet, and the East Van Jazz
Orchestra, which he co-leads with Jared Burrows. Brad has been very
active as a music educator and has held such positions as Coordinator of
the Banff Summer Jazz Workshop, Producer of the Vancouver & Victoria
International Jazz Orchestra Workshops and Artistic Director of the
Renfrew Community Performance Project |
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