Monik Nordine Trio

Monik Nordine, born in Karlstad, Sweden in 1966, is a saxophonist and composer who has lived on the West Coast of Canada for most of her life and spent her formative years on Salt Spring Island. Monik worked as a freelance musician in Vancouver until 1993 when she finished her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of British Columbia and decided to move to Montreal. In Montreal, she became a composer through the mentorship of Jan Jarczyk, who was also her professor at McGill University, where she eventually completed a Master's Degree in Music in 1997. Before returning to her hometown on Salt Spring Island to raise her child in 2000, Monik traveled to London to study with Evan Parker, Stan Sulzmann, and Kenny Wheeler. Saxophonist Monik Nordine has received several prestigious arts awards including a JUNO Award nomination for her work on the album "Cruel Yet Fair" (1997) with John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra. She has toured with Hugh Fraser's band VEJI. Having shared the stage with many award-winning musicians such as Ian McDougall, Guido Basso, Matt Catingub, David Foster, Campbell Ryga, PJ Perry, Michael Buble, Rob McConnell, Tommy Banks, and Brad Turner, Monik also directs The Victoria Jazz Orchestra. The Monik Nordine Trio has been featured from Stockholm to Vancouver and consists of Sharon Minemoto on piano and Brent Gubbels on bass. She has recorded three albums as a leader: "Not Just To But Over the Moon" (1998), "Departure" (2010), and "The Old-New Town" (2017). She has taught for 6 years at Vancouver Island University and now teaches at the Victoria Conservatory through Camosun College in the Post-Secondary Music Program.

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