This weekend’s Music on Sunday act is a Vancouver trumpeter who has shared the stage with a veritable who’s who list of jazz luminaries and appeared on hundreds of recordings for TV, feature films, commercials and albums.
The Vince Mai Quartet is said to be “back-by-intense-popular-demand.” Mai will bring the audience a tasteful afternoon of standards and original tunes.
The Vince Mai Quartet is performing at The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre (122 W. Fern Rd., Qualicum Beach) on Feb. 5 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Admission is $18.
For more information, visit www.theoldschoolhouse.org or call 250-752-6133.
Mai will be performing alongside Ron Hadley on piano, Rick Kilburn on bass and John Lee on drums.
As a trumpeter, Mai has appeared on hundreds of recordings for TV, feature films, commercials, and albums.
Artists he has shared the stage or recording studio with include Sarah McLaughlin, Divine Brown, Michael Buble, Tom Jones, David Foster, Phil Dwyer, Don Thompson, The Temptations, Natalie Cole, Long John Baldry, Danilo Perez, Sheldon Reynolds (of Earth Wind & Fire), Soulstream and many others.
Mai’s studio work has included TV shows like DaVinci’s Inquest, Chris Isaak Show, Lonesome Dove, McGyver and Ed, Edd, & Eddy.
Also an award-winning composer, Mai has composed music for feature films, documentaries, TV series, video games and commercials for TV, radio and internet. Clients include CBC (theme for The Early Edition), NFB, FOX, PBS, Knowledge (themes and IDs for the network rebranding), McDonald’s, Ford, Electronic Arts, Radical Entertainment, Mattel, Telus, Mazda and many more.
Mai, who is also an instructor, has taught music composition for film at the University of British Columbia and currently at Douglas College.
The curriculum is completely designed by Mai for learning how to compose music for film, TV, and video; the course is assignment based and challenges the student to compose in many genres with focus on technical and musical considerations.
As a solo artist, Mai has released five CDs. With the exception of For All We Know, Mai’s other CDs feature mostly original compositions.
— Submitted by TOSH
