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Kieran Overs
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Full Name:Kieran Overs

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Home Phone: (905)639-3409
Mobile Phone: (416)606-1788Mobile Phone: Private
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Web Site: http://www.kieranovers.com
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Jazz bassist/composer/educator Kieran Overs has been a mainstay of the
Canadian music scene since 1970, first on guitar and electric bass, and for
the past 43 years on acoustic bass. He has toured internationally with notable
artists including Moe Koffman/Dizzy Gillespie, Jane Bunnett and
Sophie Milman. His career has been profiled in “The Miller Companion To
Jazz In Canada”. Overs holds an Honours Diploma from Humber College, a
B. Mus. from Humber/BCOU and a M. Mus. from McGill University
(Montreal). He has also studied privately with renowned Danish bassist
Neils-Henning Ørsted-Petersen and Canadian arranger Rick Wilkins. To his
credit Overs has four CDs as leader/producer and more than eighty as a
sideman. He was one of only eight jazz artists selected to represent Canada
on the box set “Here and Now – A Celebration of Canadian Music “,
produced by the Canada Council to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of
the United Nations (released worldwide in October 1995). He is an adjunct
faculty member of the music department at Humber College (Toronto) and is
active as a freelance musician and clinician. He also writes and arranges for
his band “Overs Eleven”.