Craig Pedersen
“Craig Pedersen’s trumpet...suggests cinematic desolation and a creeping dread.”
-Guy Oddy, The Arts Desk
Craig Pedersen is a trumpet player, composer and improvisor recently moved to Boorloo/Perth from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.
Most recently he was the music director for Creation Destruction for 12 dancers, rock band (half of GY!BE), strings and voices, where he wrote and arranged music for the strings and voices and conducted the chamber ensemble. In addition to performing in his own groups, The Craig Pedersen Quartet and Sound of the Mountain, he has been the trumpet player for Ensemble SuperMusique, a new music ensemble in Montreal dedicated to the performance of graphic and conceptual scores.
Since 2011, Craig has released a number of albums ranging between composed material to improvisation. An active and avid touring artist, he has played across Canada, in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and Mexico. Recent highlights of his work includes collaborations and/or performances with Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shinkan Tamaki, Zhao Cong, Yong Yandsen, Gudinni Cortina, Manfred Werder, Pauline Oliveros, Jean Derome, Joane Hetu, Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh (Instant Places), Vicky Mettler, Bennett Bedoukian and Mark Molnar, as well as many others.
He is currently involved in a multi-year research project into the limits of text score writing, soliciting creative input from Manfred Werder, Ryoko Akama, Heather Roche, Julián Galay, Gudinni Cortina, E Millar, Zhao Cong and Zhu Wenbo and Mark Molnar and many others.
Some of his projects can be viewed at www.craigpedersen.com
On Mystery & Wonder:
MW001, Sound of the Mountain, Amplified Clarinet and Trumpet (2017)
MW002, Craig Pedersen, solo trumpet (2016) (2017)
MW003, Craig Pedersen Quintet, Approaching The Absence of Doing (2017)
MW004, PCP trio, internal/external/focused/broad (2019)
MW008, Sound of the Mountain with Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura, amplified clarinet and trumpet, guitars, nimb (2019)
Read Full Reviews
2019-12 on the Sound Projector by Ed Pinsent – PCP Trio
2019-11 on The Whole Note by Ken Waxman – PCP Trio
2019-11 on The Whole Note by Stuart Broomer – SOTM w/ Akiyama & Nakamura
2019-10 at Vital Weekly by Frans De Waard – Charm Point
2019-07 on Vital Weekly by Frans De Waard – PCP Trio
2018-04 on The Sound Projector by Ed Pinsent – Craig Pedersen Quintet
2017-12 on Vital Weekly – Craig Pedersen Quintet
2017-09 on Avant Music News by Mike – Craig Pedersen Quintet
2015-12 at Monsieur Deliré – Craig Pedersen Quartet
2015-06 at Avant Music News – Craig Pedersen Quartet
2015-06 on The Whole Note by Stuart Broomer – Craig Pedersen Quartet
2014-02 at Monsieur Deliré
2013-11 on The Whole Note by Stuart Broomer – It’s a Free Country
2013-06 on The Whole Note by Stuart Broomer
2013-02 at the Free Jazz Blog by Philip Coombs- Craig Pedersen Quartet
2012-05 at The Whole Note by Stuart Broomer – Craig Pedersen Quartet
2012-05 at Monsieur Deliré – Craig Pedersen Quartet
2012-03 at Step Tempest – Craig Pedersen Quartet
Photo by Karol Orzechowski
“A taut work in which composition and improvisation engage almost violently at times, the music winning.”
-Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure
“An astringent tea for the ears”
- Philip Coombs (Free Jazz Blog)
