Canadian composer and jazz pianist, David Braid, is "considered one of his country's true renaissance men when it comes to music." After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1998, Steinway Artist David Braid focused his career performing original music. He formed the "David Braid Sextet" in 1999 with John MacLeod on trumpet; Mike Murley on saxophone; Gene Smith on trombone, Steve Wallace on bass, and Terry Clarke on drums. This band made three albums, with the second one, "" winning the Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2005. His albums ', , ', ', , have also been nominated for Juno Awards. In 2017, Braid won two Screen Awards, "Best Original Score" and "Best Original Song" for his work on the flm, Born to Be Blue. In 2018, his album . His first classical work, Corona Divinae Misericordiae, was nominated for a Although Braid developed a reputation as one of the country's most celebrated jazz players, he began moving in a different direction with a solo piano album of original compositions called, "Verge." Braid's 2011 solo piano album, ', also won a Juno award for Traditional JazzAlbum of the Year. In 2014, Braid became a Special Associate Artist of Sinfonia UK Collective In summer 2015 he toured with the group in the UK and Canada as part of a project funded by Arts Council England / National Lottery and University of Hull. Braid's approach to work with Sinfonia UK Collective was the focus of a paper on democratic authorship that was presented at the Reflective Conservatoire Conference in February 2015. In that paper, Dr Lee Tsang of University of Hull offered models of democratic authorship and used Braid's work as an example of one of a number of approaches that the Sinfonia UK Collective has undertaken since 2004. In addition to his collaboration with Sinfonia UK Collective, Braid moved further afield from his jazz roots with his 2016 release "FLOW: David Braid + Epoque String Quartet" on the Steinway & Sonsrecord label. David Braid is also the recipient of the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry
