Nicole Rampersaud
Nicole Rampersaud (* 1981 ) is a Canadian improvisation musician (trumpet, flugelhorn).
Rampersaud has been on the Toronto improvisation scene since the 2000s; first recordings were made in 2006 with Bob Moses ( Father's Day B'hash ). In the following years she played a. a. with Anthony Braxton's Creative Orchestra (Album (Guelph) 2007 ), Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble and the Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra ( Ride the Wind , 2016, with Roscoe Mitchell ), also with Evan Parker , Marilyn Lerner and Joe Morris . In the field of jazz, she was involved in five recording sessions between 2006 and 2016. She has received a number of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Rampersaud, who also appears as a soloist, works musically on the “deconstruction of the physicality of her instrument, both through singing grunts into the mouthpiece and through crackling noises with a tinny mute ”.
Discographic notes
- Evan Shaw, Nicole Rampersaud, Jean Martin, Tomasz Krakowiak, Wes Neal: Halcyon Science 130410 (2011)
- AIMToronto Orchestra: Year of the Boar (2011)
- Joseph Shabason. Aytche (2017)
Web links
- Web presence
- Nicole Rampersaud at Discogs (English)
- Nicole Rampersaud at Allmusic (English)
- Nicole Rampersaud - Burdock Music Hall, Toronto (2016) - Video by Laurie Kwasnik
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 17, 2018)
- ↑ Recording: Nicole Rampersaud Artist: Nicole Rampersaud at Mechanical forest sound
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| SURNAME | Rampersaud, Nicole |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1981 |