![]() He has practiced law at MLT Aikins since 1987. ![]() He currently serves as a Bencher of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. In his work life, Jeff is a Partner at the law firm of MLT Aikins LLP. Jeff served as a volunteer announcer at festival concerts, interviewed festival artists on radio and promoted the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival on the “Jazz Fest Journal” and “Swing Shift” radio programs on CFCR-FM. He chaired the Festival Board’s Fundraising & Sponsorship Committee and Hiring Committee. Jeff served on the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Jazz Festival Inc. Jeff served as President of the Community Radio Society of Saskatoon, Inc. That station signed onto the FM radio dial in September of 1991 and has broadcast as Saskatoon’s community radio station continuously for the past 32 years. He wrote the CRTC Radio Licence Application for CFCR-FM. Campus Radio in 1985, Jeff led a group of volunteers who founded the Community Radio Society of Saskatoon, Inc., which re-established community radio in Saskatoon. In the 1980s, he wrote columns covering the Saskatchewan music scene for Music Express and Trouser Press magazines and organized and promoted concerts by independent Canadian artists at the Broadway Theatre. Jeff served as a volunteer announcer, disc jockey and music programmer at CJUS-FM and CHSK-FM Radio at the University of Saskatchewan from 1981 to 1984. The 2023 winner of the Jim Hill Festival Builders Award is Jeff Lee, who has served as a volunteer and supporter of Saskatoon’s music community over the past 40 years. Jim Hill Festival Builders Award Winner 2023: Jeff Lee More information about the SJO is available here. Since 2017, through the creation and ongoing support of the Saskatoon Youth Jazz Orchestra, the SJO has shown its determination to ensuring this musical art form is carried forward. In addition to creating opportunities for much of Saskatchewan’s established and emerging jazz talent, the SJO has also demonstrated a commitment to paying it forward in terms of youth jazz-specific education. The SJO has partnered annually with the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, often presenting some of the SJO’s biggest and most artistically audacious projects, including performing in special celebration concerts commemorating the festival’s 25th, 30th and 35th anniversaries. The roots of this ensemble extend back even farther through the work of the Metro Jazz Ensemble (also conducted by Dean McNeill), which performed at the SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival for over a decade prior to the establishment of the SJO.Īll SJO concerts strive to feature important and emerging music and musicians whose professional work intersects specifically with the large jazz ensemble idiom. ![]() Under the artistic leadership of trumpeter Dean McNeill, the SJO since its inception has been committed to presenting the highest caliber of professional-level large jazz ensemble music to the city of Saskatoon and beyond for over 10 years. The 2023 winner of the Special Recognition Award is the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra (SJO). ![]() Special Recognition Award Winner 2023: Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra ![]()
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