Adriana Camacho, Lisa Cay Miller & John Hollenbeck
Adriana Camacho (born 1974, Mexico City) is a double bassist, documentary filmmaker, and improviser deeply involved in the Mexican and international free improvisation and free jazz scenes. For her, improvisation connects the soul to something larger through sound. She collaborates and records with artists worldwide and plays bass in Mexico City-based projects such as David Contreras Trío and Loope, her solo audiovisual project. Camacho has performed at festivals like Roskilde and ICA London and actively organizes music events in her hometown.
Lisa Cay Miller (she/her), pianist and composer, lives and makes music on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Miller improvises with, and composes for, many great musicians all over the world. She is the Artistic Director of the NOW Society, organizing and directing improvised music events, workshops and community initiatives in Vancouver.
Composer/percussionist and six-time GRAMMY nominee John Hollenbeck is renowned in both jazz and new-music worlds. He has gained widespread recognition as the driving force behind the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet, GEORGE, and the ambitious John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, groups with roots in jazz, world music, and contemporary composition. He is well known in new-music circles for his longtime collaboration with Meredith Monk and has worked with many of the world's leading musicians in jazz including Bob Brookmeyer, Fred Hersch, and Tony Malaby. John is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the ASCAP Jazz Vanguard Award, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. His most notable works include commissions by Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ethos Percussion Group, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Ensemble Cairn, Orchestre National de Jazz, and Frankfurt Radio Big Band. He joined McGill University Schulich School of Music’s faculty as professor of Jazz Drums and Improvisation in 2015.
📸: DAVID BECKETT
Adriana Camacho (born 1974, Mexico City) is a double bassist, documentary filmmaker, and improviser deeply involved in the Mexican and international free improvisation and free jazz scenes. For her, improvisation connects the soul to something larger through sound. She collaborates and records with artists worldwide and plays bass in Mexico City-based projects such as David Contreras Trío and Loope, her solo audiovisual project. Camacho has performed at festivals like Roskilde and ICA London and actively organizes music events in her hometown.
Lisa Cay Miller (she/her), pianist and composer, lives and makes music on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Miller improvises with, and composes for, many great musicians all over the world. She is the Artistic Director of the NOW Society, organizing and directing improvised music events, workshops and community initiatives in Vancouver.
Composer/percussionist and six-time GRAMMY nominee John Hollenbeck is renowned in both jazz and new-music worlds. He has gained widespread recognition as the driving force behind the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet, GEORGE, and the ambitious John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, groups with roots in jazz, world music, and contemporary composition. He is well known in new-music circles for his longtime collaboration with Meredith Monk and has worked with many of the world's leading musicians in jazz including Bob Brookmeyer, Fred Hersch, and Tony Malaby. John is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the ASCAP Jazz Vanguard Award, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. His most notable works include commissions by Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ethos Percussion Group, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Ensemble Cairn, Orchestre National de Jazz, and Frankfurt Radio Big Band. He joined McGill University Schulich School of Music’s faculty as professor of Jazz Drums and Improvisation in 2015.
📸: DAVID BECKETT
