Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based JUNO Award-winning pianist/composer Cat Toren’s Human Kind is a dynamic new project influenced by the free-form, socially conscious jazz of the late '60s as well as today’s resurgent civil rights movement.
Date/Time: Jun 30 2017, 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm
Vancouver, The Ironworks | Event calendarAge: 19+
Cost: $30.00
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"Beautiful and adventurous" (CBC Radio), Human Kind channels Alice Coltrane and her contemporaries, making a powerful case for the expressive art of jazz’s ability to uplift, engage, and unite people. With local heavy-hitters Dave Say saxophone, Gordon Grdina oud/guitar, Tommy Babin bass, and Dan Gaucher drums, the empathic Toren uses bold atmospheric abstraction and fluid melodies to mix deep human warmth with creative fire!
Catherine (Cat) Toren is a jazz pianist, improviser, and composer. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Cat has studied classical piano and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music and holds a Bachelor of Jazz Studies from Capilano College in Vancouver. She has been a valued participant at the Banff Centre’s Big Band Workshop and Jazz and Creative Music Workshop with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.
At the 2010 Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Cat was awarded the prestigious Galaxy Rising Star Award for her work with the quintet Pugs and Crows. This group has received high acclaim in the Canadian creative music scene, having performed coast to coast and shared bills with artists such as Bill Frisell and Jill Barber. They are nominated for Instrumental Album of the Year in the 2013 JUNO Awards. In 2011, Cat was honoured to be selected as the recipient of the Denis Jackson Endowment Fund while at The Banff Centre. Also in 2010, Cat had the privilege of performing in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
Cat relocated to Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2010 and is very active in the creative music community. She has a quartet under her leadership, co-leads in the internationally based trio Elk Town, is in the collaborative band Pugs and Crows and works as a contributing musician in many ensembles, including Jasmine Lovell-Smith’s Towering Poppies and folk guitarist Matt Pierrot. Cat has many years of teaching experience (privately and as a master-class clinician at the Kiwanis Jazz Festival) and currently is on faculty at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music and the Musician’s General Store. Cat has two record releases under her name thus far and has worked as sideperson on numerous other recordings. Leading groups in Europe, Canada and America, Cat continues to pursue her dream of playing music all over this beautiful earth.
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