Guerrila Vacation: Toni Pigot/voice, Lee Park/violin, Rick Waychesko/trumpet, Dawn Hatfield/baritone sax, bass, drums
Paul Cram Quintet: Rick Waychesko/trumpet, Danny sutherland /bass, Shan Arsenault/guitar/,David Burton/drums
ETC TRIO: Lisle Ellis/bass, Pierre Tanguay/drums
Paul Cram Orchestra: Tom Walsh/trombone, Jeff Reilly/bass clarinet, Don Palmer/alto sax, Rick Waychesko/trumpet, cello, bass, John Gzowski/guitar, David Burton/Drums, Steven Naylor/piano
PAUL CRAM
Composer/Bandleader/Artistic Director Saxophonist/Clarinetist/film Scoring
www.paulcram.com
Paul Cram has a career that spans over thirty years from coast to coast in Canada. Originally from Vancouver he spent his formative years playing in R&B bands and burlesque houses . In the late seventies he studied composition at the University of British Columbia and earned a Bachelor of Music Degree. After graduation he co-founded the New Orchestra Workshop, an organization that continues to this day to develop new ways of juxtaposing composition and improvisation in a large ensemble context. In 1982 he moved to Toronto and worked there for seven years. He toured Canada extensively and was nominated twice for Juno Awards for Best Jazz Album. In this period he developed a strong interest in writing music for theatre and film which led him to embrace technology before moving with his family to Nova Scotia in 1989.
For several years he has been Arttistic Director of the UpStream Music Association, a musician-based collective that produces cutting-edge collaborations in Halifax of local, national and international artists who share an interest in the flourishing of creative music. He has performed with top international artists: Barry Guy, Julius Hemphill, Peter Lieberson, Alain Trudel, Jean Derome, Matt Brubeck, Lori Freedman and Han Bennink to name a few. His CD ..Campin Out.. with the Paul Cram Orchestra was released to rave reviews and nominated for National Jazz Awards in two categories: best composer and best big band. The Orchestra performed at the prestigious Jazz em Agosto Festival in Lisbon, Portugal in 2004 and released ..Live in Lisbon.. on Ombu Records.
Selected film and television work includes : Silent Messengers (2005) .. a feature documentary for the National Film Board, Foodessence - 39 episodes for the Life Network, Stanton T. Friedman is Real - documentary for Space Channel, Gullage..s - a 13 episode comedy series for CBC shot in St.John..s, Newfoundland and One Heart Broken into Song, a CBC MOW that won him a FIPA D..OR for best dramatic score from the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuel in Biarritz, France. In theatre he has written scores for Neptune, Mulgrave, Eastern Front, Ship..s Company, Mermaid Theatre and CBC Radio Drama. He has been commissioned to write concert music by Bradyworks, UpStream, New Orchestra Workshop, Hemispheres and Symphony Nova Scotia.
Currently, he performs as a saxophonist/clarintetist with the UpStream Orchestra, various PC configurations and Guerrilla Vacation. He writes for television, theatre, and concerts. He is a member of the Canadian Music Centre, SOCAN, The American Federation of Musicians, Local 571 and the Guild of Canadian Film Composers. He runs Logic Audio music software on a MacIntosh computer. He resides in Dartmouth and Parrsboro, Nova Scotia with his wife Mary and daughters Katharine and Laura.
He is in the midst of writing a series of scores for silent films: Buster Keaton and Lon Chaney films have so far been screened with his recently formed five-member Sunrise Film Orchestra.
The synchronic vibration between object and metaphor is the magical dimention of beauty that my artwork seeks out. My idea is that all objects, be they old containers, art works, art supplies, tree roots, or concepts themselves, continually vibrate frequencies of meaning in a continuum of metaphorical…
Manifesto continues at www.kenboe.com - Come visit one of my art shows in January. Follow link to my blog for more information.
"Synchronic Vessels" Las Vegas First Friday Art Walk, 01/01/10 8 Martinis Gallery at the Art Factory, 107 East Charleson Blvd, Downtown Las Vegas, and
"Synchronic Chaos" Chaos Art Space, 801 N. 6th Street, Downtown Phoenix, beginning night of 01/01/10
Thank you Paul, and welcome to a discussion among Music and Theater people, Film Makers and Philosophers, Painters and Poets. I invite you to my current exhibitions of paintings and poems, and look forward to talking with you. There's no better place for enlightened discussion than in the presence of art. (More at www.kenboe.com) I currently am in one show in Phoenix, one in California, one in Miami: TEAPOT TOTEMS AND POEMS @ THE FIREHOUSE artspace 1015 N 1st Street, DOWNTOWN PHOENIX - Open Weekends, or call 602-253-2251.
Hi there Paul Cram first of all we'd like to say thanks for being our myspace pal. We wanted to make sure you knew the reason incase we suddenly vanish off of your friends list. The movement we've started for indie artists has grown significantly and consumes all of our time these days. We seldom sign into our myspace account and this is making several people believe that we are ignoring them. We are not ignoring anyone, we wanted everyone to know that. What we're doing has become so busy we just don't have the time for myspace any longer, so in all honesty we are probably going to just close our myspace account.
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Hey Paul: I just listened to those four orchestral works you gave me on a CD. Bravo! Great writing! All adventurous orchestras that program new music should be hearing your stuff! Cheers! John
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