Karel Roessingh May 1, 2014

A native of Leiden, Holland, Karel was raised in Calgary, Canada and began his professional musical career in 1970. In 1973, he studied jazz arranging and composition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and completed a degree in secondary music and mathematics education at the University of Victoria in 1981. Karel still loves to play the piano and plays in clubs, concert halls and in the studio whenever possible. He has led bands for Howie Mandel, Rich Little (and his lesser known brother Fred), Bob Newhart, Shari Lewis (and Lambchop), and Ted Knight,played with the Valdy, Moody Blues, Powder Blues Band, Jan Arden, The Shirelles,and Leslie Gore, and opened for the Temptations(with vocalist April Gislason) and solo for legendary jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli. He writes jazz tunes for his own and other groups, and has played with jazz greats such as Bud Shank, Ian MacDougall, Pat LaBarbera, Don Clark, Floyd Standifer, Roy Reynolds and many well-known vocalists. He's regularly asked to play at jazz festivals as both leader and sideman.

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