Bill Mahar
Trompette; Compositeur
(Actif dans la scène de Montréal)

(La biographie est seulement disponible en anglais) Originally from Halifax, N.S.

B.Mus McGill

Co-leader of Streetnix & ALTSYS Jazz Orchestra with Jennifer Bell

Discography: Streetnix Ugly Bags of Mostly Water, Altsys Jazz Orchestra Uncorked

Banff Jazz Orchestra Jazz at Banff, Bernard Primeau Jazz Ensemble, Oeuvres de Félix, Virage, Vic Vogel Big Band, le Big Band, Justin Haynes & Tena Palmer, Not Drowning......Waving.

Bill has recorded and or performed with; Kenny Wheeler, Hugh Fraser, Dave Holland, Slide Hampton, Muhal Richard Abrams & Maynard Ferguson (Banff Jazz Workshop & Banff Jazz Orchestra); George Russell, (Banff Jazz Workshop); Fraser MacPherson, Randy Brecker, Vic Vogel & Oliver Jones (McGill Alumni Jazz Band), Dizzy Gillespie, (Vic Vogel Big Band), Mike Murley, Seamus Blake & Ray Anderson (Altsys Jazz Orchestra).

As co - leader of Streetnix, Bill has performed extensively nationally and internationally including: the Montreal & Ottawa International Jazz Festivals; the Seagram’s Platinum Jazz Tour of Quebec; the International Street Performers Festival (Halifax, N.S.); the Festival By The Sea (Saint John, N.B.); Cultures Canada (Ottawa,Ont.); the ALBIJAZZ Festival, Albi, France as part of a tour of southern France; as well as jazz clubs throughout Ontario, Quebec & the Maritimes.

As co - leader of Altsys Jazz Orchestra, performances have included the Montreal & Ottawa International Jazz Festivals, Musicfest des Jeunes du Quebec as well as the CBC radio shows Jazz Sur le Vif & JazzBeat .

Bill’s arrangements and compositions have been performed and recorded by the Banff Jazz Orchestra, the McGill Alumni Jazz Band, the Bernard Primeau Jazz Ensemble, Streetnix & Altsys Jazz Orchestra

Bill teaches trumpet at McGill’s Faculty of Music & coaches combos & directs the big band at the McGill Conservatory of Music.

Jouer avec: Altsys

Critiques:
Bernard Primeau Jazz Ensemble - Un Souffle Latin - critique (en anglais) de Michael Bettine (jazzreview.com)
 

Articles:
CBC's Jazz Beat features Altsys (Webmaster)
CBC's Jazz Beat scheduled to feature Altsys on Sunday, December 23, 2001.