Scott Thomson
• Composer • Performer (trombone)

Scott Thomson is a key member of a new generation of improvising musicians at work in Toronto. He contributes his very vocal trombone playing to numerous regular ensembles in many styles, and prizes ad hoc improvising activities as a way of meeting and collaborating with many provocative and creative folks. He is a Board member for the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto), helped to form the eighteen-piece AIMToronto Orchestra for a celebrated collaboration with Anthony Braxton in September 2007, and continues to serve as the Orchestra’s administrative director. Scott is also the Artistic Director of Somewhere There, a terrific little performance studio in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood that hosts live creative music four nights a week. Plumb, a recording of solos and duets with marvelous Montréal clarinetist Lori Freedman, is recently released on Jean Martin’s Barnyard Records. As a composer, Scott makes site-specific pieces for improvising musicians with the aim to animate particular acoustic spaces. For example, his cartographic work for mobile improvising musicians, Acoustic Orienteering, will be presented at the 2008 Sound Symposium in the streets of St John’s, Newfoundland.

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