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| Kris Tiner [kristiner] |
| Bakersfield California United States |
| Jazz Solo | Commercial/Recording |
Affiliation:
Professor of Music, Bakersfield College | Phone:
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| Contact me for:
Performance opportunities & Trumpet instruction |
| http://kristiner.com |
| KRIS TINER is a trumpet artist, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 25 years. His playing has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” in Signal to Noise Magazine, “perfectly suited to the moment” in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that “trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” His music has been performed on five continents, his 80+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has performance credits on MTV, NBC, PBS, and Comedy Central. Tiner has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, Montalvo Arts Center, the Kennedy Center, CMEA, KCMEA, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. He has toured widely as a member of the Empty Cage Quartet with recordings on Portugal’s Clean Feed label, and he collaborates with guitarist Mike Baggetta in the duo Tin/Bag. Tiner also performs with the Cathlene Pineda Quartet, Chris Schlarb’s Psychic Temple, the Industrial Jazz Group, the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet, and the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Kraig Grady, Tatsuya Nakatani, Nels Cline, Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, Lukas Ligeti, Joe La Barbera, Donald Robinson, Lucian Ban, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Lisa Mezzacappa, Sara Schoenbeck, Harris Eisenstadt, and many others. Tiner is Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Bakersfield College, and has also taught at California Institute of the Arts, CSU Bakersfield, Taft College, and the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from CalArts, where his teachers included Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Edward Carroll, and Charlie Haden. Tiner is the founder of Epigraph Records, an independent label dedicated to the documentation of new creative music recorded in Bakersfield. |
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