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Dean has composed and/or arranged music for
professional ensembles including brass quintet, symphony orchestra,
large and small brass ensembles, jazz combo, and large jazz ensemble.
Dean’s arrangements of the jazz standard All
of You won at award from Downbeat
Magazine for University Student
Arrangement of the Year.
In the jazz idiom Dean has performed with the
Banff Centre Jazz Orchestra,
Vancouver Jazz Orchestra,
the Birth of the Cool Repertoire Project,
the Art Blakey Tribute Project,
with the likes of Kenny Wheeler, Pat LaBarbera, P.J. Perry, Bobby
Caldwell, Hugh Fraser, Tommy Banks (big band and combo), among
others. Dean currently directs the Metro
Jazz Ensemble of Saskatoon and he has led many of his
own small jazz groups as touring projects throughout Western Canada.
He has performed recently as a featured guest artist with the
Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra,
Washington State Jazz Ensemble 1
(Pullman, Washington), Crane School
of Music Jazz Ensemble 1 (Potsdam, New York), Brandon
University Jazz Ensemble 1 (Brandon, Manitoba), and
the University of Manitoba Jazz Ensemble
1 (Winnipeg, Manitoba).
In the classical idiom Dean has been a member
of the Saskatchewan Brass Quintet
(Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), the Blue
Bonnet Brass (Fort Worth, Texas), and the Red
Deer (Alberta), Irving
(Texas), and Saskatoon (Saskatchewan)
Symphony Orchestras. He
has performed in numerous classical chamber recitals throughout
western Canada, and in recent years, performed trumpet recitals
at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta), Auburn University
(Auburn, Alabama), Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma),
University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), and the
2007 Western Canadian Music Awards (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan).
Dean has adjudicated throughout Canada and in
this capacity has shared the stage with such performers as Tommy
Banks, Dee Daniels, Hugh Fraser, Kelly Jefferson, Bob Mintzer,
P.J. Perry, Campbell Ryga, Brad Turner, Sunny Wilkinson, and many
others.
Dean recently released a CD of original compositions
for large jazz ensemble entitled Prairie Fire-Large Jazz Ensemble
Music by Dean McNeill. Prairie Fire is available at www.deanmcneill.com/music.
Dean is a Yamaha artist.
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