Simon Millerd (trumpet) and Dan Reynolds (piano) playing at All Saints by-the-Sea Anglican Church (110 Park Drive) for a Jazz Vespers service led by the Rev Gillian Davies.
Simon Millerd is a local jazz musician who has been wowing the islanders since the early 2000's busking at the Saturday Market with the Young Jazz Players (YJP), and playing internationally since 2011, touring with the European Jazz Orchestra. He has a unique, warm, soft tone on the trumpet and his recent compositions are inspired by the natural beauty of Salt Spring. He was living in Montreal until moving back to the island in 2019. He has been playing with Dan for almost 15 years, since meeting at McGill University in 2009.
Dan Reynolds was born and raised in Vancouver. Growing up in a musical household, he took an interest in music from a young age. He was introduced to jazz by his father and developed a love for playing piano and writing music. After high school, Daniel moved to Montreal to study at the Schulich School of music at McGill University. Here he had a chance to study piano, arranging, theory and composition with some of Canada’s finest musicians. Daniel played in the McGill Jazz Orchestra and worked alongside guest artists such as Phil Dwyer, John Taylor, Joe Lovano, Ben Monder, Jim McNeely and Tim Ries. At McGill he was given the distinction of being a Schulich Scholar and in 2010 he was awarded the Oscar Peterson Prize for Excellence in Jazz Performance by the Hnatyshyn Foundation for the Arts.
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