Track credits:
Supply And Demand:
music by Caitlin Smith
lyrics by Anne Theriault and Caitlin Smith
Feat. Hildegunn Gjedrem, voice, and Alan Ferber, trombone
(In a Different Life I Would) Tango:
music by Caitlin Smith
feat. Ingrid Jensen, flugelhorn
Ella's Sentinel:
music by Sara Jacovino
Feat.
Water Thief:
music by Sara Jacovino
lyrics by Caitlin Smith
Feat.
After a long period of scholastic drudgery, composers Sara Jacovino, Caitlin Smith and Rebecca Pellett are reigniting their musical studies. The Orchestral Reëducation Commission brings them many opportunities to expand musically. Trained as jazz, classical and studio musicians, the composers seek to continue the recent trends in jazz composition towards the exploration of classical form, artful thematic development and innovative orchestration. The Commission's considerable pool of talented improvisers allows its members to experiment with new ways to incorporate improvised solos into the orchestral context. A sensitive and cohesive rhythm section blends with all of these elements, ensuring that the rhythmic innovations of contemporary jazz remain a vital part of the Commission's work.
Sara Jacovino is a trombonist, composer and arranger who cut her teeth in the renowned One O'Clock Lab Band at North Texas University, where she earned her MMus in jazz performance while studying composition with Neil Slater and Paris Rutherford. In June of 2009, Sara was awarded the BMI Foundation's Charlie Parker Composition Award/Manny Album Commission after just her first season in the BMI jazz composers' workshop. Also in 2009, Sara received the Airmen of Note's Sammy Nestico Award in jazz composition and was named "winner" of Downbeat Magazine's Student Music Awards in the category of best jazz arrangement. Similarly, in 2008, Sara’s composition skills earned her two Downbeat Awards, including best Original Song and best Extended Composition. That year she also won a spot in the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Better Carter Jazz Ahead Music Residency Program and was sought out by David Baker and invited to the be in residency at Steans Institute at the Ravinia festival. Sara was also selected as one of three finalists in the International Trombone Association’s J.J. Johnson solo jazz trombone competition. In the fall of 2008 Sara made the move to NYC where she is a member of the jazz composer's workshop led by Jim McNeely. Her compositions have been recorded by the One O'Clock Lab Band as well as The Utubes Jazz trombone ensemble and are being performed across the country in ensembles spanning from Seattle to Washington DC.
Canadian-born composer, conductor and clarinetist Caitlin Smith recently returned to Toronto from New York City, where she spent a year on a study grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. There, she studied jazz composition with Jim McNeely, orchestral conducting with Alan Pierson and Gary Fagin, and was a member of the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop. From 2005-08, she conducted her unique Toronto-based jazz orchestra, the Tiny Alligator Large Band, in dozens of performances of her original compositions. She was also Artistic Director of the Hart House Jazz Band at the University of Toronto for 2007-08. In 2008, she was awarded a spot as a presenting composer in the International Jazz Composers' Symposium, where one of her compositions was performed by Chuck Owens' Jazz Surge big band. Her music has also been performed by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, The Sydney Improvising Musicians' Association in Sydney, Australia, and on CBC Radio One and JazzFM 91 in Toronto. Caitlin has studied film composition with Christopher Dedrick; she holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Humber College, as well as certificates in clarinet performance and theory from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.
Rebecca Pellett is a musician living and working in Toronto, Canada.
She has been active as a composer and orchestrator in the film
industry for more than ten years, and has had the opportunity to work
with many distinguished film composers, including Chris Dedrick,
Michael Small, Micky Erbe, and Rob Carli. Rebecca has orchestrated
for films directed by acclaimed Canadian directors Guy Maddin, Don
McKellar, and Alex Chappel; and has worked on-set as a music
consultant with legendary directors Dan Petrie and Norman Jewison.
Rebecca is also an accomplished recording engineer, and is the
associate engineer for the ongoing series of live concert recordings
being made by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, where she has the
pleasure of working under Maestro Peter Oundjian. She has had some
very successful forays into the commercial recording business; last
year Rebecca produced a solo French horn album featuring the principal
horn player for the Canadian Opera Company, Joan Watson. Rebecca also
assisted with the production of Kate Schutt’s “Telephone Game”, and
celebrated Canadian actor Brent Carver’s upcoming debut vocal album.
Recently, Rebecca has begun to receive commissions for orchestral
arrangements and compositions, most notably from the Windsor Symphony
Orchestra and Maestro John Morris Russell.
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