“Kirk Elliott is the Leonardo da Vinci of music.” Max Ferguson, CBC
“Disgustingly talented.” BBC Radio
Quicklink to CD: Widdershins: https://pipistrellemusic.com/kirk-elliott/widdershins/
KIRK ELLIOTT lives in Toronto, where he composes and performs music for a wide variety of early and modern instruments for film, concert and television. Kirk was Music Director for Jurgen Gothe’s recent one-man show produced for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, ‘Up Your Glass.’ He has produced and composed music from the Toronto Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman Dance Company, Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre, Dancemakers, the National Ballet, National Film Board of Canada and the Discovery Channel.
As a performer, Kirk is a member of Ensemble Polaris; has played in concert with the Toronto Consort; toured across North America with Sharon, Lois and Bram; and introduced children to Celtic, jazz, rock, old-time fiddle and Elizabethan music as a guest with the Victoria and Kingston Symphony Orchestras.
Kirk has released over a dozen CDs of original music for adults and children, one of which won a Juno Award, and his Sing a Song of Mother Goose, released by Harper Collins in tandem with a book, sold over 50,000 copies. In 2002 he was nominated for a Dora Award for outstanding musical direction of Theatre Columbus’s production of Gynty (Peer Gynt), and he numbered amongst the top ten fiddlers at the 2002 Canadian All-Time Fiddle Contest in Shelburne, Ont.
“A one man cottage industry of sound.” Jurgen Gothe, CBC
http://www.kirkelliott.net/
Congrats on your success. Would love to connect with your sister Cherry. We were at U of t together. Can’t remember her married name. Can you please give her my email address? Thanks so much.
We sure had fun usually at sombody’s expense,luckily nobody was hurt.God am I getting soft or has some rare disease rewired my brain.I Tell my teacher buddies about you.Remember paying Bernie Dobin a visit! he had no idea what to do that is a classic.My fastball team had a party down by Greenwood Park.I am pissed as a rat ands Mr. stunned boy drives home.Well two jerks cut me off ,so stupid me chases them,the jump out of their car run into a pizza place and the pizza man calls the police.This is where it gets good,The police arrive and they tell me to sit in my car and turn it off,while the speak to the pizza man.The come back an ask If anyone can drive me home.I gIve them my friend number now my friend is a practical joke so when the policeman calls John say nice try Smither and hangs upon the cop,he calls John right back and tells him if he hangs up again I will be charged he says he and his partner are going off shift and can’t be bothered with me.So I am in my car and getting bored so out I go,I knock on thr cars windowand I say Brook Trout by now the cop has had it but it is important that I tell the where you can catch them and of course release them,the cop tell me to get back in my car,well I forgot to tell them about Raibow trout so I knock on their window again.The policeman has had enough so he call my friend and asks if Iam challanged,John says no and they let me talk to John,who lets me know if I tell the any more fishing stories I am going to jail.Sorry it is a bit long winded Your,e Friend John Smither