2022 Artists and Adjudicators
2022 Artists and Adjudicators:
Campbell Ryga - Featured Artist
Michael Perkins - Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator
Bob Rogers - Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator
Nicholas Dyson - Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator
Kimberly Kleineberg - Vocal Adjudicator
Campbell Ryga - Featured Artist
Michael Perkins - Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator
Bob Rogers - Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator
Nicholas Dyson - Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator
Kimberly Kleineberg - Vocal Adjudicator
Our 2022 Featured Artist: Campbell Ryga
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Campbell Ryga was born in 1961 in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. Campbell is the eldest son of the Internationally renowned Canadian Author and Playwright - George Ryga.
Campbell was raised in the community of Summerland British Columbia, where he lived until moving to Vancouver to pursue private and post secondary study in 1979. Since 1979, Campbell has resided in the cities of Vancouver British Columbia, Toronto Ontario and in New York City. Mr. Ryga was honoured to have received the Jazz Report Magazine Award of 'Canada's Alto Saxophonist of the Year 2000' presented to him at the annual Jazz Report Awards Ceremony held in Toronto in May of the year 2000. The two former recipients of this award were Moe Koffman and PJ Perry. Mr. Ryga has received 3 Juno Awards, with two additional nominations, a Grammy nomination, and he appeared on Michael Buble's recording 'Crazy Love' which received a Grammy Award in 2010. Campbell Ryga's recordings have twice received the 'Western Canadian Music Award' in the Jazz category. Campbell Ryga has toured internationally on 26 occasions, primarily to Western Europe and to Latin America, notably to the Havana International Jazz Festival, where he has been invited to perform for six consecutive years. Mr. Ryga is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Hugh Fraser Quintet, an All Star multiple Award Winning Canadian Jazz Quintet to which Campbell has had a long term association. Campbell's affliation with Hugh Fraser and the Quintet began in 1981. On top of his International touring schedule, Campbell has also been involved in cross country Canadian touring on 24 separate occasions, and has performed week long engagements at the famed Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho - London, on 4 separate occasions. |
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Campbell has contributed to 72 Jazz Recordings inclusive of his four current releases as a leader, 'Coastal Connection' and two years later 'Spectacular' which was released in December of 2001 and was nominated for a Juno Award. Both of these releases were handled by Radioland/Universal Records.
More recently, Campbell recorded a release with the great New York pianist Renee Rosnes for CBC Records entitled Deep Cove which features Neil Swainson on bass and Rudy Petchauer on drums, recorded by CBC Records and is distributed by Universal. Deep Cove was nominated for a Juno Award for 2005. This recording received the Western Canadian Music Awards award for Most Outstanding Jazz Recording for the Year 2005.
In 2008 Campbell collaborated with the great Canadian Jazz Alto Saxophonist PJ Perry to record his most recent release 'Joined at the Hip' a live recording with Ross Taggart on Piano, Neil Swainson on Bass and Terry Clarke on Drums - available on Cellar Live Records.
Mr. Ryga continues to maintain a busy schedule as a Clinician, in association with Yamaha Canada. Campbell also maintains an active Adjudicators' Schedule.
Campbell has sat on the Jury Boards for The British Columbia Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts.
Campbell Ryga is currently on faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley, British Columbia.
Mr. Ryga has received the honor of having been placed on the British Columbia Secondary School District 67 - Wall of Fame - for excellence in his field.
In 2010, Mr. Ryga has been inducted to the Envisions Jazz Festival 'Hall of Fame' in honour of his accomplishments as a Performer.
Mr. Ryga is proud to be affiliated and Sponsored by the following good friends:
Campbell Ryga is a Yamaha Canada Saxophone Artist
Theo Wanne Mouthpiece Artist
D'Addario Reeds Artist
More recently, Campbell recorded a release with the great New York pianist Renee Rosnes for CBC Records entitled Deep Cove which features Neil Swainson on bass and Rudy Petchauer on drums, recorded by CBC Records and is distributed by Universal. Deep Cove was nominated for a Juno Award for 2005. This recording received the Western Canadian Music Awards award for Most Outstanding Jazz Recording for the Year 2005.
In 2008 Campbell collaborated with the great Canadian Jazz Alto Saxophonist PJ Perry to record his most recent release 'Joined at the Hip' a live recording with Ross Taggart on Piano, Neil Swainson on Bass and Terry Clarke on Drums - available on Cellar Live Records.
Mr. Ryga continues to maintain a busy schedule as a Clinician, in association with Yamaha Canada. Campbell also maintains an active Adjudicators' Schedule.
Campbell has sat on the Jury Boards for The British Columbia Arts Council and The Canada Council for the Arts.
Campbell Ryga is currently on faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley, British Columbia.
Mr. Ryga has received the honor of having been placed on the British Columbia Secondary School District 67 - Wall of Fame - for excellence in his field.
In 2010, Mr. Ryga has been inducted to the Envisions Jazz Festival 'Hall of Fame' in honour of his accomplishments as a Performer.
Mr. Ryga is proud to be affiliated and Sponsored by the following good friends:
Campbell Ryga is a Yamaha Canada Saxophone Artist
Theo Wanne Mouthpiece Artist
D'Addario Reeds Artist
Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator: Michael Perkins
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Michael Perkins is a professional classical and jazz trumpeter, composer, clinician, and adjudicator currently from Coldstream, B.C. Michael spent over 40 years as an internationally award-winning music educator with experience in both the public and private school systems in the Okanagan Valley and the Lower Mainland. He is a past coordinator of the Vancouver Kiwanis Jazz Festival, the B.C. Interior Jazz Festival and was involved in founding/directing multiple groups including the original funk band, The Mammals, from Kelowna; the Sea'T'Sky Big Band, in Squamish; the Nicola Valley Brass Quintet, in the Thompson-Okanagan; the Playmor Junction Big Band, in Nelson; and the Night Owl Orchestra, Central Okanagan. As a freelance trumpet/flugelhorn player, clinician and adjudicator, Michael works with the Okanagan Symphony, the Kamloops Symphony, the Michael Garding Big Band, Symphonic Rock Revolution, Perkins/Landsberg Duo, the Clinton Swanson R&B Band and the Justin Glibbery Quartet. He has also served as Music Director for musical theatre, the 100th Centenary celebration for Kelowna and the BC Summer Games and enjoys every opportunity he gets in the recording studio and has just recently released a new compilation CD, “Michael * Perkins * Reflections”. Michael has performed throughout Europe and North America and has worked with such artists as Cleo Laine/John Dankworth, Holly Cole, Laila Biali, Jann Arden, Mike Murphy, Dee Daniels and Dianne Shuur and the great Greg Yasinitski. Michael’s other passions include downhill skiing, motorcycles, and is discovering his talent for visual art.
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Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator - Bob Rogers
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One of Canada’s finest trombonists, Bob Rogers started playing trombone at the age of 10.
Studies at Humber College, the University of British Columbia and Northwestern University in Chicago garnered him Bachelor and Masters degrees in trombone performance. For several years Rogers worked in Vancouver as an in-demand session and freelance musician, performing with artists such as Natalie Cole, the O’Jays, the Temptations, and the Vancouver and Victoria Symphonies and Operas. He also recorded with the Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation, the West Coast Jazz Orchestra, Aerosmith, Charlotte Diamond and the Payolas, as well as on numerous film and television soundtracks. In 1993 Bob relocated to the mountain town of Revelstoke where he has taught music for the past twelve years, as well as remaining active as a performer. He is a regular member of the Okanagan, Kamloops and Cranbrook Symphony Orchestras, as well as the leader of the Bob Rogers Jazz Trio, which has performed to great acclaim at festivals and venues in Vernon, Kamloops, Panorama Resort and Revelstoke. |
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Jazz Band/Combo Adjudicator - Nicholas Dyson
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Nicholas Dyson recently relocated to the beautiful BC Interior. Until early 2020, Nicholas was one of Ottawa’s busiest trumpeters. He performed regularly with The Beeched Wailers, Prime Rib Big Band, The Bank Street Bonbons, Los Gringos, Mackenzie Rhythm Section, Rob Frayne’s Dream Band, Point Blank Brass, The Yohawks and The Pharoahs. Nicholas has also played with the National Arts Centre Orchestra Pops, Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Gatineau, Capital Brassworks, Ragtime Brass, the 2019 “ = Jazz Orchestra” under the direction of Christine Jensen, and many musical theatre shows such as Book of Mormon, Motown the Musical, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Drowsy Chaperone, Full Monty and The Producers. Nicholas has also worked with Aretha Franklin, Dave Brubeck, Barbra Streisand, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Joel Frahm, Richie Cole Alto Madness Orchestra, Hilario Duran, Kim Massie, Jamie Cullum, Linda Eder, Paul Anka, The Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Temptations, The Coasters, The Platters, The Four Tops, Jann Arden, Nikki Yanofsky, Solomon Douglas Swingtet, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Patrick Watson and Broken Social Scene. |
Nicholas has contributed to albums by Solomon Douglas Swingtet, Tilda, That’s The Spirit, Souljazz Orchestra, Slim Moore & the Mar-Kays, The Cooper Brothers, Mike Essoudry’s Mash Potato Mashers, The Yohawks, Orienteers, Phil Motion & the Easy Lo-Fi, Delbert & the Commotions, Krytal Jyl & the Jacks, The Bush Pilots, Peter & the Wolves, Good Advice, plus a live concert recording for CBC Radio Canada with Los Gringos. The Beeched Wailers released their debut recording “The Johnson Lake Sessions” in December of 2015, and Nicholas’ most recent recording is with Prime Rib Big Band “Choice Cuts” and was released in April 2020.
Nicholas was the founder and director of Capital Youth Jazz Orchestra from 2009-2019. CYJO was an educationally driven jazz big band, made up primarily of students from Ottawa area universities whose music programs lacked a big band component. Nicholas taught at Carleton University Jazz Camp 2009-2019, hosted Trumpet Boot Camp for several years at Alcorn Music Studios, and has presented clinics and masterclasses across North America. Nicholas is active as an instructor and presenter in brass, harmony and improvisation, and teaches locally at Kamloops Symphony Music School. Nicholas Dyson endorses Brasspire Trumpets.
In addition to his love for music, Nicholas is an avid golfer, gardener of super-hot peppers and producer of small batch hot sauce, and loves living in The Shuswap with his dog Bugsy.
www.NicholasDysonMusic.ca
Nicholas was the founder and director of Capital Youth Jazz Orchestra from 2009-2019. CYJO was an educationally driven jazz big band, made up primarily of students from Ottawa area universities whose music programs lacked a big band component. Nicholas taught at Carleton University Jazz Camp 2009-2019, hosted Trumpet Boot Camp for several years at Alcorn Music Studios, and has presented clinics and masterclasses across North America. Nicholas is active as an instructor and presenter in brass, harmony and improvisation, and teaches locally at Kamloops Symphony Music School. Nicholas Dyson endorses Brasspire Trumpets.
In addition to his love for music, Nicholas is an avid golfer, gardener of super-hot peppers and producer of small batch hot sauce, and loves living in The Shuswap with his dog Bugsy.
www.NicholasDysonMusic.ca
Kimberly Kleineberg - Vocal Adjudicator
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Kim is honoured to be adjudicating at a festival she participated in with both bands and choirs for 28 years. Kim also served on the jazz festival committee for most of those years. A graduate of Western Washington University, as well as a jazz educator, Kim sang professionally for many years. Her reputation precedes her, having developed an outstanding choral and vocal jazz programme at her beloved Mount Boucherie Secondary School, and graduating many successful music students into post secondary and professional music careers.
Since retiring Kim has been hired as a clinician throughout the school district for vocal workshops, ensemble work, and retreats. She has also continued to direct Spectrum Singers, her 42 voice auditioned adult choir, a group she founded in 2010. Their accomplishments include singing with "Heart," David Foster, the Tenors, Mark Hayes in Carnegie Hall and recently for the Gary Cable project with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra. |
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