Hard Rubber Orchestra
- 425 Carrall St # 310
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- V6B 6E3
- Phone: 1 604 683 8240
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The Hard Rubber Orchestra is the "Godzilla of the Vancouver jazz scene, a big, goofy monster that stomps through complex charts with the swagger of big swing band and the heat of a thermonuclear explosion." (Alex Varty, The Georgia Straight). This 17-piece, post-modern, new music ensemble, consisting of many of Vancouver's finest musicians under the leadership of composer, conductor and trumpeter, John Korsrud, plays daring, unpredictable, high energy music that draws on the influences of John Zorn, Krzysztof Penderecki, Public Enemy, John Cage and Miles Davis. The Hard Rubber Orchestra has performed its wild and eclectic brand of music at venues across Canada and Europe including the DuMaurier International Jazz Festival in Vancouver, the BIMhuis and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in Quebec and the Music Gallery in Toronto. Korsrud and the Orchestra are also known for producing large-scale, highly entertaining, multimedia events such as The Ice Age: The First New Music Ice Show (Kerrisdale Arena, 2000), Elvis Cantata II (St. Andrews Wesley Church, 1996), White Hot Core (Du Maurier International Jazz Festival, 1995), The Elvis Cantata (St. Andrews Wesley Church, 1994), Hard Rubber Lollapalooza (Glass Slipper, 1993) and Solstice (Du Maurier International Jazz Festival, 1991). The Ice Age incorporated 10 figure skaters, including gold medalist Emanuel Sandhu, hockey players, curlers and more...