Jodi Proznik

Jodi Proznik

Jodi Proznick (composer, bassist) is a multi-award winning bassist, composer, producer and educator with accolades that include the Western Canadian Music Award for Jazz Artist of the Year (2019) and Instrumental Artist of the Year (2022), National Jazz Award for Bassist, Album and Acoustic Group of the Year, and three JUNO nominations for her CDs Foundations, Sun Songs and The Ostara Project. She has performed with internationally recognized artists Michael Bublé, Phil Dwyer, George Coleman, Sheila Jordan, David “Fathead” Newman, Harold Mabern, Bill Henderson and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and has been featured on over 40 albums as bassist. Jodi is a past faculty member of Capilano University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and The Banff Centre and is Director of Jazz Studies at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music. She was a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Awards in 2022 for her contribution to music education in British Columbia.