February 22-24, 2013
TRANZAC Main Hall
292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
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Scott Thomson
Somewhere There & Its Public
talk: Friday 22 February, 7pm
Scott Thomson is a trombonist and composer who works in Montréal and Toronto. He plays in regular ensembles in many styles, and prizes ad hoc improvising as a way to meet many creative people. He has studied with Roswell Rudd, Jean Derome, Eddie Prévost, and John Oswald. He leads The Rent, a quintet dedicated to repertory by Steve Lacy as well as Scott's songs. The Rent's all-Lacy self-titled debut recording was released on Ambiences Magnétiques in 2010. Scott helped to found the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto), where he served as a director until 2009, and co-directs the AIMToronto Orchestra, which was formed for a celebrated collaboration with Anthony Braxton in September 2007. Until 2010, Scott was the artistic director of Somewhere There, a performance space for live creative music in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood that he founded in 2007. Scott has composed a series of site-specific works that he calls 'cartographic compositions' for mobile musicians and audiences in unconventional performance contexts for which he has had several notable commissions and residencies. Scott Thomson and Susanna Hood shared the role of Improviser-in-Residence through the ICASP project in Guelph, Ontario, in the autumn of 2012.