Noisborder Ensemble

 

Studio A, Lambton Tower (lower level), University of Windsor

 

The Noiseborder Multimedia Performance Lab is home to the Noiseborder Ensemble.

The Noiseborder Ensemble (NBE) creates and performs multimedia works featuring a combination of acoustic and electronic instruments as well as live processing and mixing of sound and video. Based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, the group has presented more than twenty original multimedia pieces since its inception in 2008. Members include Brent Lee (saxophones, composition, sound design), Sigi Torinus (video, visual design), Trevor Pittman (clarinets, composition), Nicholas Papador (percussion, composition), Chris McNamara (video, sound design), Megumi Masaki (keyboards). The Noiseborder Ensemble also works on an ongoing basis with collaborating artists nationally and internationally.

 

NBE on Vimeo
NBE Flickr Albums
NBE blogspot
noiseborderensemble.com

 

Tickets: Adults $20; Students (with ID) $5

 

GUEST ARTIST PROFILE

 

Jeremy Brown is a renowned Canadian saxophonist, woodwind doubler, teacher, expert on the music of Henry Cowell and conductor.  He is Professor of Music and the former Head of the Music Department at the University of Calgary. (1990-present)  He has been an Artist-In-Residence and a visiting lecturer at the Banff Centre.  In 2014 he was awarded the inaugural University of Calgary Faculty of Arts Teaching Award.  In 2010, his solo recording of Canadian saxophone music, “Rubbing Stone” was nominated outstanding classical recording of the year.  In 2009 he was conferred the title “Canadian Music Ambassador” by the Canadian Music Centre for his work promulgating music by Canadian composers, with more than forty works commissioned.  In 2008, he was named an “Innovator of the University of Calgary” for his community outreach, and in 2007 was awarded the David Peterkin Award for his contribution to music education in Alberta by the Alberta Band Association.  In 1999 he was awarded the University of Calgary Student’s Union Teaching Award for the Faculty of Fine Arts.

 

His education was at Washington State University, where he earned the Bachelor of Music Education degree Cum Laude, (1980) the Master of Music degree in Woodwinds and the Performer’s Certificate in Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music, (1982) and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in saxophone performance at the Ohio State University. (1993)

In 2014, he attended the Jazz Band Director’s Academy at Lincoln Center, New York City, where he continued his work in the area of jazz ensembles and various jazz pedagogies.

As a university teacher, his undergraduate and graduate students have won numerous national and international awards, scholarships and recognition.  His university ensembles have been widely recognized for original programming and performing excellence; most recently his U of C Jazz Orchestra won the Outstanding Ensemble Award at the 2013 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and ten outstanding soloist awards at the 2014 Elmhurst Jazz Festival, Chicago Illinois.

 

He has recorded numerous records, including Scaramouche with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, (2003, CBC records) In the Company of My Soul (2003, Arktos Label), Ornamentology (lightblue records) Rubbing Stone (2010, Centredisc Label), The Lethbridge Sessions (2014, Centredisc Label) and The VerismoJazz Quintet (2005).  His inaugural recording of the wind band works of Henry Cowell with the winds of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra will be released in 2014 together with his forthcoming book, “The Windband Works of Henry Dixon Cowell” for Sourcebooks in American Music, College Music Society.

 

As a saxophone soloist he has appeared with many bands and orchestras including the Washington-Idaho Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Red Deer Symphony, Festival Orchestra of the 2003 World Saxophone Congress (Minneapolis) the Okanogan Symphony Orchestra, Kensington Sinfonia and the Ottawa Symphony.  He is also lead tenor saxophonist with the Calgary Jazz Orchestra.

 

He is the founding artistic director of the Rubbing Stone Ensemble, a new music ensemble based in Calgary and former conductor and founding artistic director of the National Concert Band of Canada (2002-2010).  He is has been Artistic Director of the Calgary Wind Symphony since 1997, a 60 member wind band founded in 1955 with many of the finest musicians in Calgary.  In 2003, he co-founded Verismo, a Calgary jazz quintet whose inaugural recording garnered great critical acclaim and subsequently performed at the 2007 Montreal Jazz Festival.

 

Dr. Brown has written numerous pedagogical articles and in addition to his forthcoming book, was co-compiler and series editor of the inaugural Royal Conservatory of Music Saxophone Series (2014).  This groundbreaking and comprehensive saxophone series includes graded repertoire, etudes, technical studies and orchestral excerpts and is used internationally.

 

His numerous articles are published in the Instrumentalist, Journal of Band Research, Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Saxophone Symposium, Canadian Band Journal, International Society for the Investigation of Wind Music and Canadian Winds.  He is a currently a contributing editor to Canadian Winds. 

 

Brent Lee

 

Sigi Torinus