Brooklyn-based flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson’s work engages high-level improvising and layered, cinematic orchestration; her artistry, an earnest and actionable desire to collaborate with multimodal artists and the changing world around her. The Gothenburg native’s solo leader releases include include Liminal (2026), Atlas Of Sound – Quila Quina (2024), Pulses (2023), Atlas Of Sound – Coast Redwoods (2022), Dark Is Light Is (2021), Hindsight (2020), After Us (2018) and Salt Wind (2017). She’s named Flutist Of The Year in the Downbeat 2025 poll, is the 2018 winner of the National Flute Association’s Jazz Flute Competition, and the recipient of multiple Chamber Music America grants, including a 2022 New Jazz Works grant for Band of Pulses. Elsa graduated from Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet in Gothenburg; she received her bachelor of music from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and her master of music from NYU. She has served as a professor of Rhythmic Analysis and Socially Engaged Artistry at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music since 2020, and led master classes across the U.S.

Three-time GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter, composer, producer, and bandleader Rachel Therrien is celebrated for her emotionally powerful sound, fearless improvisation, and genre-expanding artistic vision. Based between New York City, Montreal, and Havana, she merges contemporary jazz with Afro-diasporic traditions, weaving Afro-Caribbean and Latin American rhythmic forms into a bold modern voice. Winner of the TD Grand Prize Jazz Award and the Stingray Rising Star Award, Therrien is also a multiple JUNO and ADISQ nominee. She leads the acclaimed Latin Jazz Project (Mi Hogar II) and the duo Dialogue with pianist Albert Marqués (Chronograph Records), and has performed worldwide at star venues like Blue Note NYC, SFJAZZ, and the Lincoln Center Summer for The City.

Musicians:
Elsa Nilsson – Flute
Rachel Therrien – Trumpet
Morgan Moore – Bass
Kuluse Souriant – Drums
Andres Vial – Piano

Video: “Mourning For Two”

Juno Award-winning Singer-Songwriter Dawn Tyler Watson has earned her place among the International Blues elite. She adopted Montreal as her home after earning her BFA in Jazz Studies and Theatre from Concordia University.

Since then, her fiery stage presence and soul-stirring performances have garnered her national and world-wide recognition with multiple awards including Maple Blues Awards for Songwriter, Best Album, Female Vocalist of the Year, and a 2020 American Blues Music Nomination for Vocalist of the Year alongside greats like Curtis Salgado & Mavis Staples.

Her latest record “Mad Love,” was just awarded the 2020 JUNO award for Blues Album of the Year.

Musicians:
Dawn Tyler Watson: vocals
piano
bass
drums

Youtube video: ” It Don’t Mean A Thing”

Pianist, composer, educator Pete Malinverni has been a fixture on the New York City Jazz scene since moving there in the early 1980s from his hometown of Niagara Falls, NY, where he’d begun Classical Piano studies at the tender age of six.

Since moving to NYC, Pete has recorded sixteen times as a leader, including in solo piano, piano/violin duet, trio, quartet, quintet, big band and choral contexts. All of his recordings have been received by critics and the public alike and have seen heavy airplay on all platforms, from the radio to the internet.

PETE MALINVERNI, piano
Walter Stinson, bass
Tommy Crane, drums
special guest: JULIET KURTZMAN, violin

Youtube video: “Upstairs Jazz”

Kevin brings to the stage an ensemble of talented young people who will be the next generation of Canada’s finest jazz musicians.

Youtube video: “Change of Heart” w/ Kevin Dean, Al McLean, Mike Rud