Kieran Overs
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About Kieran Overs
Jazz bassist/composer/educator Kieran Overs has been a mainstay of theCanadian music scene since 1970, first on guitar and electric bass, and forthe past 43 years on acoustic bass. He has toured internationally with notableartists including Moe Koffman/Dizzy Gillespie, Jane Bunnett andSophie Milman. His career has been profiled in “The Miller Companion ToJazz In Canada”. Overs holds an Honours Diploma from Humber College, aB. Mus. from Humber/BCOU and a M. Mus. from McGill University(Montreal). He has also studied privately with renowned Danish bassistNeils-Henning Ørsted-Petersen and Canadian arranger Rick Wilkins. To hiscredit Overs has four CDs as leader/producer and more than eighty as asideman. He was one of only eight jazz artists selected to represent Canadaon the box set “Here and Now – A Celebration of Canadian Music “,produced by the Canada Council to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary ofthe United Nations (released worldwide in October 1995). He is an adjunctfaculty member of the music department at Humber College (Toronto) and isactive as a freelance musician and clinician. He also writes and arranges forhis band “Overs Eleven”.