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Dr. Jared Burrows is a guitarist, composer, and educator in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His music draws upon jazz, free improvisation, and European concert music, and is influenced by his frequent collaborations with traditional musicians from China, Ghana, Indian, and Iran. He leads the Jared Burrows Quartet and Sextet, the Vancouver Improviser's Orchestra, and is involved with many other ensembles in the Vancouver area including Les Djangophiles, Naadaleela Ensemble, Thunder Lizard, Dave Robbins' Electric Band, Brad Muirhead 4, Colin MacDonald Pocket Orchestra, Len Aruliah Quintet, Michael Vlatkovich Quintet, Burrows/Houle/Sorbara, Reliable Parts, and The Offering of Curtis Andrews. He teaches at Capilano University.

Recent performance highlights include concerts and recordings with mrdangam maestro, Sri Trichy Sankaran, and with legendary Los Angeles reed player, Vinny Golia.

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Dr. Jared Burrows is a guitarist, composer, and educator in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His music draws upon jazz, free improvisation, European concert music, and is influenced by his frequent collaborations with traditional musicians from China, Ghana, Indian, and Iran. He leads the Jared Burrows Quartet and Sextet, the Vancouver Improviser's Orchestra, and is involved with many other ensembles in the Vancouver area including Les Djangophiles, Naadaleela Ensemble, Thunder Lizard, Dave Robbins' Electric Band, Brad Muirhead 4, Colin MacDonald Pocket Orchestra, Len Aruliah Quintet, Michael Vlatkovich Quintet, Burrows/Houle/Sorbara, Reliable Parts, and The Offering of Curtis Andrews. Recent performance highlights include concerts and recordings with mrdangam maestro, Sri Trichy Sankaran, and with legendary Los Angeles reed player, Vinny Golia.

Jared has been an instructor at Capilano University since 2008. He teaches improvisation, small ensembles, vocal arranging, and conducting as well as directing the renowned new music group, Narwhal. Past teaching appointments include Douglas College, Simon Fraser University, Stanford Jazz Workshop, and Delta Community Music School. Jared is co-founder of the South Delta Jazz Workshop and curator of the weekly Jazz at Presentation House Studio series.

Burrows completed his Ph.D. in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University in 2004. He is actively engaged in writing and research work concerning social models of cognition related to free improvisation, the teaching of improvisation, and Sufi and Taoist philosophies applied to performance practice and education. He received his Master's degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon where he was fortunate to study and work with the great Steve Owen, a wonderful musician, mentor and teacher. He has studied improvisation with Gary Versace, guitar with Ihor Kukurudza, and composition with Rudolph Komorous, David MacIntyre, Martin Gotfrit, David Crumb, and Robert Kyr.

Jared has served for long periods on many non-profit boards including Vancouver Independent Music Centre, Nunya Music Academy, and Fraser MacPherson Scholarship fund. In what little remains of his spare time he enjoys flyfishing, building very fine guitars and basses, and helping children in Ghana through the Nunya Music Academy.