Amanda Tosoff is a Canadian pianist, composer, and educator with 6 albums to her credit. Her groups have been featured at festivals across the globe, and have opened for jazz luminaries such as Bobby Hutcherson, Renee Rosnes, and Oliver Jones. Amanda has received various honours, including the Montréal Jazz Festival Grand Prix de Jazz, the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Jazz Artist Award – and most recently, a JUNO nomination for her album Words, which blends poetry, jazz, art-song & folk-pop. 
 With Amanda’s 6th release as a leader, Earth Voices, she continues to pursue the creative and stylistic leap she began on Words, once again drawing on poetry with a deep personal and emotional connection. Along with strings and guest saxophonists Allison Au and Kelly Jefferson, she invites Alex Goodman, one of New York’s most vital young guitarists, to work wonders and broaden her ensemble texture. She also enlists a sterling and versatile cast of singers — Emilie-Claire Barlow, Robin Dann, Michelle Willis, Alex Samaras, Laila Biali, Lydia Persaud and Felicity Williams — to give new life to words by Edgar Allan-Poe, Pablo Neruda, Rumi, and Walt Whitman, among other original material and inventive arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Luciana Souza, & Chris Thile. With an honest, genuine and giving spirit, Tosoff stands poised to share with the world the next stages in her evolution. 
 Amanda is also a passionate educator. Check out our online workshops at MusicArtsCollective.