What's Your Forte?

What's Your Forte interview with Neil Yorke-Slader


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Neil Yorke-Slader is the Associate Director and Chair of the Instrumental Jazz Division of MusicFest Canada. He taught music at the elementary and secondary levels for 17 years and has been the director of the nationally acclaimed Nepean All-City Jazz Band for 34 years. He is active as a jazz adjudicator and clinician throughout North America, and has published over 50 compositions for jazz ensembles. He was one of the eight contributing composers to the inaugural Canadian “New Sounds of Learning Project.” In 2020, Neil was named an Honorary Life Member of the Ontario Music Educators Association.


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