David Buchbinder



David Buchbinder

David Buchbinder is a JUNO award-winning trumpeter, composer and cultural inventor. He leads numerous music groups, composes for concert, theatre, film and television, presents large-scale performance projects and has toured extensively in North and South America and Europe. And we’re just getting started…

He has been involved in world music and jazz since 1987 and has earned a reputation as a compositional and instrumental leader. He was the creator and first artistic director of the world-renowned Ashkenaz Festival, and creator/producer of multidisciplinary performances Shurum Burum Jazz Circus, the Jerusalem Salon, Tumbling Into Light and Routes of Andalusia, which was commissioned by Koerner Hall to open its 2011/12 season.

David was one of the inaugural Resident Artists at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, is the founder and CEO/Artistic Director of the creativity-based urban transformation organization Diasporic Genius, and is the artistic director of the New Canadian Global Music Orchestra. He has received two JUNO awards, a Toronto Arts Award, and many nominations for his body of work.

Talks

David Buchbinder - Performance: ideacity 2017