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*  Improviser

Ken Read, trombonist, has performed with the Royal Regiment of Canada Band, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Tommy Banks Orchestra and the Citadel Orchestra.

Also active as a soloist and chamber musician, Ken has performed frequently on all the major Edmonton stages as a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician, including the Winspear Centre, and the Yardbird Suite.

Ken has premiered and recorded numerous scores written for him and his ensembles. Roger Deegan, John McPherson, George Andrix, Gordon Nicholson, Carl Derfler, Howard Bashaw, Thom Golub and Dave Wall, among others, have written new works for him and his groups, and he has recorded frequently for CBC and other companies, including Arktos Recordings Limited: Bashaw: Music by Howard Bashaw as a soloist, and Prairie Brass: Brass Music by Roger Deegan as an ensemble player.

Ken was a founding member of Triceratops and a member of the NowAge Orchestra. He founded the Pergolesi Brass, and collects music by Edmonton composers using the sometimes electronically enhanced resources of the solo bass trombone. As one half of MULE (guitar, trombone and electronics), Ken collaborated with Dave Wall over a 12 month process to create a new composed and improvised score to accompany the 1929 silent film, The Golem, premiered at the Metro Theatre in Edmonton in 2004.

Ken heads the Edmonton Trombone Studio, is the Music Director for the Ritchie Trombone Choir, and is Program Director for the Edmonton Northern River Karate School Association.
 

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