Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 8 pm

Tickets $20 / $15 for students

Erika Nielsen - Baroque cello, works by Gabrielli, Dall’Abaco, and J.S. Bach

Arkana - improvised music for cello, piano, saxophone and percussion

Described as "a colorful cellist of many temperaments," Erika Nielsen has a multi-faceted career as a collaborative artist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and educator. Her musicianship spans the classical tradition to Baroque, contemporary, and popular genres.

www.celloerika.com

ARKANA

Arkana is a unit of collaborative improvisers who walk the edge of composition and improvisation. Pianist Ali Berkok (Aurochs, Muskox) is joined by drummer Andrew Miller, saxophonist Karen Ng, and cellist Erika Nielsen. Together, these four mainstays of the Toronto music scene conjure melodies, stretch forms, and lay down grooves, resulting in a dynamic, surprising performance each and every time. Building upon releases Hyprovisation (2007) and Kaleidoscope (2010), this incarnation of Arkana will see their efforts documented on the All-Set! imprint in the spring of 2017.

Ali Berkok- Piano

Multi-grant winning pianist Ali Berkok is an improviser and composer based in Toronto. His electro-acoustic quartet Aurochs will release their second album “Another Helpful Medicine” on the All-Set! imprint in Autumn 2016. Berkok’s solo piano music, is a diverse array of re-imagined jazz standards, original compositions and purely improvised pieces, all of which seek to explore fully the inner workings of the piano.

Andrew Miller- Drums

Hailing from Banff, Alberta, Andrew Miller is an in-demand session musician, composer and teacher and plays regularly alongside some of Toronto's most established musicians including, Jim Lewis, Andrew Downing and Mike Murley.

Karen Ng- Saxophone

Toronto based saxophonist Karen Ng is an eclectic musician involved in many different projects all over the grid. She has appeared on stage with Do Make Say Think, Bry Webb, Del Bel, the Broken Social Scene, Charles Spearin’s Juno award winning Happiness Project and Feist.