Time: 7:30 p.m.

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Tommy Banks and Jans Lindemann

Tommy Banks http://www.tommybanks.info

 Tommy banks OMMY BANKS, O.C., A.O.E., LL.D. (Hon.), FRCMT (Hon.)
 
Since his 1950 professional debut, Tommy Banks has, as the Toronto Star pointed out, “…..done everything a musician could wish for.”  MacLean’s Magazine observed that “It would be easier to list the things he doesn’t do.”  He is the recipient of the Juno Award, the Gemini Award, the Grand Prix du Disques-Canada, several ARIA Awards, and is a member of the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame.
 
Musical touring has taken him to the farthest reaches of China, to the Eastern Europe that used to be referred to as “behind the iron curtain”, and to most points in between.

He provided musical direction for the ceremonies of the XI Commonwealth Games, EXPO ’86, The World University Games, the XV Olympic Winter Games, and for countless television shows.  He has produced and/or conducted command performances for Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family, and for President Ronald Reagan.

He was the founding chairman of the Alberta Foundation for the Performing Arts, a member of the Canada Council from 1989-95 and a policy consultant to the Council from 1996-98. He was chairman of the Edmonton Concert Hall Foundation from 1989-91.  He is the recipient of an honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, of the Sir Frederick Haultain Prize, the Alberta Order of Excellence, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

He has conducted symphony orchestras throughout North America and in Europe.  His recordings are on Century II Records, distributed by Royalty Records.

He is a member of the A. F. of  M., ACTRA, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (U.S.), the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, and of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
 
“Tommy Banks has done so many other things in music, and so many of them more visibly, that it’s easy to overlook the fact that he plays damn fine jazz piano.”-Globe and Mail

Banks made his jazz-playing debut in 1950 in the touring band of saxophonist Don (D. T.) Thompson.  Since then, he’s played jazz throughout North America, Western and Central Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
 
In 1983 his quintet became the first jazz band to tour in continental China since the 1949 revolution.

He has appeared with such luminaries as Clifford Jordan, Sonny Stitt, John Handy, Zoot Sims, Mark Murphy, Anita O’Day, Nat Adderly, Al Cohn, Pepper Adams, Joe Williams, Art Farmer, and many other greats, in clubs, concert halls, and on radio and television.

He is the recipient of the Juno Award, the Gemini Award, and the Grand Prix du Disques Canada, and is a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

 
Host of nationally- and internationally-syndicated and network television programmes, including: “The Tommy Banks Show” (1968-1983), “Somewhere There’s Music”, “What’s My Name”, “ Love and Mr. Smith”, “Celebrity Revue”, “Symphony of a Thousand”, “Tommy Banks Jazz”, etc.

He has provided musical direction for the ceremonies of: The XI Commonwealth Games, the World University Games, State Visit of President Reagan, Visit of John Paul II, EXPO ’86, XV Olympic Winter Games, Command Performance for Her Majesty The Queen, etc.

Guest conductor:  Budapest Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian State Radio & Television, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Symphony Orchestra,
National Arts Centre Orchestra, Regina Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, The Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova-Scotia, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

In the more than fifty years since his professional debut, Tommy Banks has become a part of almost every facet of Canada’s entertainment scene.

Jans Lindemann