Quinsin Nachoff
Quinsin is on leave this year.
email | website: www.quinsin.com
Quinsin Nachoff is a saxophonist and composer whose most recent recording of original compositions will feature the talents of British pianist John Taylor and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger. His previous CD of original music, Magic Numbers, released in early 2006 on the Songlines label, integrates a string quartet with a jazz trio. It features New York drummer Jim Black and bassist Mark Helias and has been called “…one of the most innovative chamber jazz recordings in recent years.” (AllAboutJazz.com) Nachoff has toured the Canadian jazz festival circuit to promote his debut CD, Quiescence. More recently he organized a six week tour through Australia, New Zealand, Japan and China performing at festivals, concert halls and clubs.
He has studied with Joe Lovano, Jim McNeely, Frank Falco, Alex Dean, and Mike Murley among others. He was a winner of the 2004 KM Hunter Award in Music, semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition, a winner in the Canada Council Jazz I.D. Showcase and has been nominated for 3 National Jazz Awards.
As a sideman he has performed and/or recorded with Kenny Werner, Howard Johnson, Dave Binney, Kenny Wheeler and Don Thomson among others. He performs regularly with Tim Posgate’s Hornband, Darren Sigesmund’s Strands Quintet, Michael Herrings’ Vertigo, Dave McMurdo’s Jazz Orchestra and Michael Bates’ Outside Sources; these have taken him across Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, South Korea, Japan and China.
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