Canadian National Jazz Orchestra (CNJO) is a world-premiere project and a premiere performance showcasing a tapestry of Canadian jazz talent, including musicians, composers, and arrangers from coast to coast to coast. A co-production between Arts Commons and JazzYYC, CNJO is coming to Calgary, live, on April 28, 2022.
Conceived and produced by Kodi Hutchinson and Calgary’s jazz collaborative JazzYYC, the CNJO is the living embodiment of Canada’s illustrious record of developing elite jazz talents. The CNJO is a country-wide uniting of jazz artists with an aim to build public awareness of jazz, and to inspire and educate young Canadian musicians. Each composer, and each piece, embodies the uniqueness and breadth of Canadian jazz music.
Under the artistic direction of multiple award-winning and world-renowned big band leader Christine Jensen, the CNJO will pay tribute to Canadian jazz and perform new works inspired by the Canadian experience from composers Marianne Trudel, Philippe Côté, and Christine Jensen from Quebec; Brian Dickinson from Ontario; Canadian ex-pat Darcy James Argue in New York; Derrick Gardner from Manitoba; and Jaelem Bhate – the inaugural Canadian National Jazz Orchestra Hugh Fraser Emerging Composer Award recipient – from British Columbia.
Kodi will be onsite as the Executive Director and JazzYYC liaison for this exciting premiere!
$39.00 - $79.00