 HOMETOWN: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
UNI DEGREE: Master of Music in Jazz Pedagogy
ADDITIONAL DEGREE: Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition with a Jazz Emphasis, University of Memphis, 2006
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WEBSITE: www.davelisik.com
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Wellington, New Zealand
OCCUPATION: Professor of Jazz Composition, New Zealand School of Music
GREATEST LIFE EXPERIENCE: If it's happened already, I want my money back!
GREATEST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Days in the studio recording new music with Tim Hagans, Matt Wilson, and Donny McCaslin
STRANGEST PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Two years playing in the COGIC orchestra in a 5000-seat, all African-American, Pentacostal megachurch in the South
UNI TRUMPET STUDIO MEMORIES: a. Three vans on a jazz road trip. Five trumpets in one van. Mark Anderson in one van distracting Washut in the third van by rubbing his bare stomach against the glass, and everyone missing the exit making us an hour late for the gig. Trumpets: "I'm sure they'll realize we're going the wrong way eventually."
b. Europe: Montreux/North Sea, 1998
c. Jazz trumpets packing Alex Thomas' car full of snow... nasty trumpets!
d. Dr. Grabowski's "Den of Zen"
e. Driving Ryan Kisor to Waterloo to buy a new suit. He runs up a thousand dollar bill (alterations and accessories), but has no room on his credit or debit cards. He disappears for at least 30 minutes leaving me with the tailors and comes back with a huge wad of cash and presses it up against the outside glass of the store. I'm pretty sure he robbed a bank!
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