Amanda Tosoff

Amanda Tosoff is a BC-raised, Toronto-based jazz pianist, composer, and educator with six albums to her credit and three JUNO nominations—most recently for the Ostara Project. As a bandleader and sidewoman, she has performed with internationally recognized artists such as Emilie-Claire Barlow, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, Brad Turner, Phil Dwyer, and many more. Her own groups have been featured at festivals across Canada and abroad, and have opened for jazz luminaries such as Bobby Hutcherson, Renee Rosnes, Oliver Jones, and Luciana Souza. Tosoff has received various honours, including the Montréal Jazz Festival Grand Prix de Jazz and the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Jazz Artist Award. She was awarded the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award at the 2007 Vancouver International Jazz Festival and the General Motors Grand Prix de Jazz at the 2009 Montréal Jazz Festival. In 2010, her quartet was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Banff Centre Winter Workshop, and in 2011 she received a Canada Council grant. Her album "Earth Voices" was nominated for a 2022 JUNO for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. "Earth Voices" enlists a sterling and versatile cast of singers—Emilie-Claire Barlow, Robin Dann, Michelle Willis, Alex Samaras, Laila Biali, Lydia Persaud, and Felicity Williams—to give new life to words by Edgar Allan Poe, Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Marjorie Pickthall, and Walt Whitman. She is on faculty at Humber College and has been a featured artist and clinician at universities and conferences, including the 2020 Canadian Jazz Summit at the University of Manitoba.

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