At age 24, Bria Skonberg has been performing on stage for over 20 years. She has made appearances as a bandleader and guest artist all over North America, Europe, and Asia. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the CBC Jazz Award of Merit (2006), and the coveted Kobe Jazz Street Friendship Award, presented at the Breda Jazz Festival in 2007. Early in 2008 she was a guest on Riverwalk Jazz with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, representing the “next generation of jazzâ€. She is often a featured performer with Canadian Icon Dal Richards and his Orchestra.Bria currently resides in Vancouver where she graduated with a Degree in Jazz Performance from Capilano College in 2006. She co-leads and manages three jazz bands based in the Pacific Northwest, The 51st Eight (www.The51stEight.com) The Mighty Aphrodite Jazz Band (www.mightyjazz.com) and Bria's Hot Five. She is also a member of The Hoppin' Mad Orchestra, the Yukon based quintet New Orleans North, and is featured often with the Solomon Douglas Swingtet.For the last five years she has been active as an advocate for upcoming musicians, working as a teacher and counselor at the Heebie Jeebies Youth Jazz Camp, Mammoth Lakes Youth Jazz Camp and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society Youth Jazz Camp in the summer. She has begun programming, narrating and performing educational elementary school shows, and has given clinics at Sacramento State University and the University of Colorado pertaining to improvising and her experiences.
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