Ken Read

email: ken.read@concordia.ab.ca

Ken Read, trombonist, has performed with the Royal Regiment of Canada Band, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Tommy Banks Orchestra and the Citadel Orchestra.

Also active as a soloist and chamber musician, Ken has performed frequently on all the major Edmonton stages as a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician, including the Winspear Centre, and the Yardbird Suite.

Ken has premiered and recorded numerous scores written for him and his ensembles. Roger Deegan, John McPherson, George Andrix, Gordon Nicholson, Carl Derfler, Howard Bashaw, Thom Golub and Dave Wall, among others, have written new works for him and his groups, and he has recorded frequently for CBC and other companies, including Arktos Recordings Limited: Bashaw: Music by Howard Bashaw as a soloist, and Prairie Brass: Brass Music by Roger Deegan as an ensemble player.

Ken was a member of the NowAge Orchestra, and a founding member of Triceratops, and of MULE, an experimental duo with composer and guitarist Dave Wall. He founded the Pergolesi Brass, and collects music by Edmonton composers using the sometimes electronically enhanced resources of the solo bass trombone.

Ken heads the Edmonton Trombone Studio and is Program Director for the Edmonton Northern River Karate School Association.