ALAN MATHESON Trumpet, Piano

Alan Matheson is a Canadian trumpeter, pianist, composer and arranger. He currently teaches trumpet and jazz piano at the University of British Columbia, and jazz studies at Vancouver Community College and Capilano College in North Vancouver. He is the leader of his own big band, directed the CBC Jazz Orchestra in broadcast tributes to Duke Ellington and Paul Whiteman, and is musical director of the Festival Vancouver Big Band. He has performed with Mel Torme, Cleo Laine, Louis Bellson and Doc Cheatham, and at the Vancouver, Montreal and Paris jazz festivals. His compositions and arrangements have been played by leading jazz players, and, in Vancouver, by percussionist, Salvador Ferreras and French hornist Martin Hackleman. Alan’s personal jazz favorites are Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Clark Terry and Woody Shaw.

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