Sharing Music & Scholarship might seem like an unusual title for a website, combining two distinct fields of endeavour. The thread that holds them together is my enduring passion for both.
An award-winning university educator who has taught in Canada, Japan and the United States, I hold the distinction of Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick and the Fielding Graduate University.
As a jazz musician, I have piano performance experience in trios to quintets. In 2015, I turned my attention to jazz and lyric composition. STEP UP, my debut album was recorded in 2018. My second album, JUST ONE MOMENT, was released in 2020. A third album, LIVE AT THE SILK PURSE (2022), was recorded in performance, and takes one on narrative journey as to the origin and inspiration for each tune. CANADIAN HORIZONS (2021) is a collaborative work featuring flugelhorn on each piece.
My next album FULL CIRCLE will be recorded and released in the fall of 2025.
Don’t miss our albums
2020
My second album, Just One Moment, expands my music exploration range to include instrumental, vocals, and spoken word jazz tunes. It arrived just before Christmas.
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2018
My first ever composition, ‘Vancouver’ (1977), captures my first time experiencing the city’s March weather, before returning to the ice and snow of the East Coast. Read more.
This is an unfolding, open-ended forum where I intend to share my composition experiences, reflect on the birth of new tunes, speak to what it means to be in recording and sound engineering studios, and share extra tunes as outtakes.
It is also a place where music creation meets my scholarly interests in the phenomenology of music. My research curiosity is fed by my interest in the experiential nature of music-making.
©2021 David Rehorick
