About
Don Berner
Named one of the Avenue Magazine’s “Top 40 under 40” (2013), Berner has appeared alongside such notable jazz luminaries as P.J. Perry, Bobby Shew, Hugh Fraser, Slide Hampton, Bob Stroup, Chu Cho Valdez, Lew Tabackin, Guido Basso, Tommy Banks, Hillario Duran and commercial talents Gino Vanelli, The Temptations, Dan Aykroyd, Bobby Curtola, and E.C. Scott.
He has performed at jazz festivals and clubs throughout Canada and the U.S. and was a featured guest at the 2011 Montreal Jazz Festival. Berner was co-producer of Edmonton’s Yardbird Jazz Festival in 2005/06 and can be heard on numerous CD’s including his own debut CD, “Sextet”. He has performed at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Polish Embassy in Ottawa, as well as leading his sextet to Mexico’s “Internacional Festival de Cervantino” and returning there to perform for the Canadian embassies “Canada Week”.
He maintains a busy performing, lecturing, and teaching schedule.
In addition to having performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Berner has released several of his own albums including his second album, the critically acclaimed “Fortress of Solitude”, his third album “Live at the Beatniq”, which was the subject of a CBC live national broadcast, and his most recent one, “Love Letters to a Rat Free Capital”, which was nominated for both an Edmonton Music Prize and a Western Canadian Music Award. Berner is also formerly the announcer and producer of “A Time For Jazz”, heard every Saturday on CKUA and the writer of the “Jazz Standards” column in Edmonton’s SEE magazine. He was the director of the Jazzworks college small group workshop for several years as well as the creator of and director of the “Horns for Hope” program for 6 years. He has toured all of Canada, most of the U.S., Hong Kong and Mexico and was also nominated for the TD Canada trust Jazz award, the Galaxie rising star award, and several mayoral arts awards.
Don Berner
Named one of the Avenue Magazine’s “Top 40 under 40” (2013), Berner has appeared alongside such notable jazz luminaries as P.J. Perry, Bobby Shew, Hugh Fraser, Slide Hampton, Bob Stroup, Chu Cho Valdez, Lew Tabackin, Guido Basso, Tommy Banks, Hillario Duran and commercial talents Gino Vanelli, The Temptations, Dan Aykroyd, Bobby Curtola, and E.C. Scott. He has performed at jazz festivals and clubs throughout Canada and the U.S. and was a featured guest at the 2011 Montreal Jazz Festival. Berner was co-producer of Edmonton’s Yardbird Jazz Festival in 2005/06 and can be heard on numerous CD’s including his own debut CD, “Sextet”. He has performed at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Polish Embassy in Ottawa, as well as leading his sextet to Mexico’s “Internacional Festival de Cervantino” and returning there to perform for the Canadian embassies “Canada Week”.
In addition, he has performed on CBC’s “Hockey Night in Canada” and numerous radio and TV specials. He maintains a busy performing, lecturing, and teaching schedule. In addition to having performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Berner has released several of his own albums including his second album, the critically acclaimed “Fortress of Solitude”, his third album “Live at the Beatniq”, which was the subject of a CBC live national broadcast, and his most recent one, “Love Letters to a Rat Free Capital”, which was nominated for both an Edmonton Music Prize and a Western Canadian Music Award.
Berner is also formerly the announcer and producer of “A Time For Jazz”, heard every Saturday on CKUA and the writer of the “Jazz Standards” column in Edmonton’s SEE magazine. He was the director of the Jazzworks college small group workshop for several years as well as the creator of and director of the “Horns for Hope” program for 6 years. He has toured all of Canada, most of the U.S., Hong Kong and Mexico and was also nominated for the TD Canada trust Jazz award, the Galaxie rising star award, and several mayoral arts awards.
Don Berner
Named one of the Avenue Magazine’s “Top 40 under 40” (2013), Berner has appeared alongside such notable jazz luminaries as P.J. Perry, Bobby Shew, Hugh Fraser, Slide Hampton, Bob Stroup, Chu Cho Valdez, Lew Tabackin, Guido Basso, Tommy Banks, Hillario Duran and commercial talents Gino Vanelli, The Temptations, Dan Aykroyd, Bobby Curtola, and E.C. Scott.
He has performed at jazz festivals and clubs throughout Canada and the U.S. and was a featured guest at the 2011 Montreal Jazz Festival. Berner was co-producer of Edmonton’s Yardbird Jazz Festival in 2005/06 and can be heard on numerous CD’s including his own debut CD, “Sextet”. He has performed at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Polish Embassy in Ottawa, as well as leading his sextet to Mexico’s “Internacional Festival de Cervantino” and returning there to perform for the Canadian embassies “Canada Week”. In addition, he has performed on CBC’s “Hockey Night in Canada” and numerous radio and TV specials.
He maintains a busy performing, lecturing, and teaching schedule. In addition to having performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Berner has released several of his own albums including his second album, the critically acclaimed “Fortress of Solitude”, his third album “Live at the Beatniq”, which was the subject of a CBC live national broadcast, and his most recent one, “Love Letters to a Rat Free Capital”, which was nominated for both an Edmonton Music Prize and a Western Canadian Music Award.
Berner is also formerly the announcer and producer of “A Time For Jazz”, heard every Saturday on CKUA and the writer of the “Jazz Standards” column in Edmonton’s SEE magazine. He was the director of the Jazzworks college small group workshop for several years as well as the creator of and director of the “Horns for Hope” program for 6 years. He has toured all of Canada, most of the U.S., Hong Kong and Mexico and was also nominated for the TD Canada trust Jazz award, the Galaxie rising star award, and several mayoral arts awards.
He maintains a busy performing, lecturing, and teaching schedule. In addition to having performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Berner has released several of his own albums including his second album, the critically acclaimed “Fortress of Solitude”, his third album “Live at the Beatniq”, which was the subject of a CBC live national broadcast, and his most recent one, “Love Letters to a Rat Free Capital”, which was nominated for both an Edmonton Music Prize and a Western Canadian Music Award. Berner is also formerly the announcer and producer of “A Time For Jazz”, heard every Saturday on CKUA and the writer of the “Jazz Standards” column in Edmonton’s SEE magazine. He was the director of the Jazzworks college small group workshop for several years as well as the creator of and director of the “Horns for Hope” program for 6 years. He has toured all of Canada, most of the U.S., Hong Kong and Mexico and was also nominated for the TD Canada trust Jazz award, the Galaxie rising star award, and several mayoral arts awards.