Name: Dennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra
Start: 2025-02-22T14:00:00
Location: The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar

The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Club

Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, Dennis Kwok, exists at the intersection of bebop, contemporary classical, free improvisation, and pop music. Originally from Calgary, his interest in jazz and improvised music led him to pursue studies at Humber College, where he completed his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Saxophone. Since then, he has been featured as part of the 2020 TD Toronto Jazz Festival Discovery Series, selected as a musician-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2021, and backed JUNO-award winning artists, such as The Tenors, Jackie Richardson, and Pat LaBarbera. As a versatile woodwind doubler, Dennis has appeared as the oboe soloist for Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #1 and #2 with the Oakville Chamber Orchestra, and has also been active in musical theatre orchestras, including productions of Follies (Royal Conservatory of Music),  Escape to Margaritaville (Theatre Calgary), Chicago (Stratford Festival), 1922 (Shaw Festival), and Mean Girls (Mirvish).