by Sonya Lea - http://workingwild.blogspot.com/ |
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Gary Sill is best known for his brilliant piano improvisations. He is an innovator in computer assisted composition, sound design, performance, and recording. His landmark jazz collaboration with Canadian flugelhorn virtuoso Bob Day, Stonehenge is Burning, was released in 2008. His CD’s of acoustic solo piano, Spring is in the Poet (2001) and Restless Hearts (2002), were rated by NAV Magazine in the top 5 listings in the USA for 10 weeks following their release; both titles received extensive international air play. He is a composer of music for film, television, radio and theatre. The Gary Sill Music Studio in Vancouver is a state of the art sound environment for digitally recording acoustic performances of jazz and formal music as well as a scoring facility for film and television. It includes a performance space to showcase work produced in the studio. The Gary Sill Studio offers clients a range of services including performance, composition, recording, editing, and engineering. |
Sill's formal studies at the University of Calgary included composition with Luigi Zaninelli and piano with Gloria Saarinen. He has performed extensively across Canada. Sill was a television audio engineer for several years and a Media Producer at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts.
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