featuring Jodi Proznik, one of Canada’s finest jazz artists.
The Norman & Annete Rothstein Theatre
May 24, 2025 at 7:30pm
950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7
Marketa Foukalova – singer, composer, lyricist, and voice coach who has been an active performer since she was thirteen. As a seventeen-year-old she won the main prize at the voice competition Zlíntalet and started to perform with Czech pop star Eva Pilarová. In the past years, she has sung with and written for a number of bands, including the trip-hop Gang Ala Basta and the acid-jazz Madfinger with whom she won first prize at The Young Jazz Musician’s competition of the Philips International Jazz Festival. She has also collaborated with Michal Pavlíček, Kamil Střihavka, BSP, Michal Prokop, the bands Jasná páka, Hudba Praha, and J.A.R., with Vladimír Mišík on his latest recordings, Matěj Benk on the project Planety, or the jazz big band Concept Art Orchestra, and she has also performed with the classical-music Duo Teres. Her home and main focus, however, has been the band Lanugo which whom she has released four albums to date. A co-founder and the director of children’s choir Beznot, Foukalová also teaches at the Jaroslav Deyl Conservatory and New York University in Prague. Lanugo released its debut album in 2009 with Animal Music.
Martin Brunner – composer, pianist and keyboardist based in Prague, Czech Republic. He released five studio albums as a leader. Each of these albums consist original music written by Brunner and are very diverse musical projects – piano trio, septet with the string quartet, jazz-rock music or vocal songs with symphonic orchestra. Brunner also regularly composes classics chamber music. As a piano and keyboard player he collaborates with the most significant musicians at the Czech jazz scene. He ranks among distinctive composers of his generation and he is a member of “The Prague Six”, the informal group of composers who regularly write music for Czech award winning jazz big band Concept Art Orchestra.
Jodi Proznick – three time Juno-nominated bassist, composer, producer and educator Jodi Proznick has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s finest jazz artists. She has won numerous National Jazz Awards, including Bassist of the Year in ’08 and ’09. Her group, the Jodi Proznick Quartet, was awarded the Acoustic Group of the Year and Album of the Year in ‘08 and the Galaxie Rising Star at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival in ‘04. Most recently, Jodi was awarded the Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards and the Platinum Jubilee Art and Music Award from the Lieutenant Governer of British Columbia.
Next Show: Pavol Hammel/ September 2025
