Jim Doxas:

Dimitrios (Jim) Doxas, a twenty-five year old native Montrealer, has been playing drums since the age of fifteen. While attending Lindsay Place High School in Pointe Claire, Quebec, he also played French horn and trumpet. At Vanier College, Jim continued his education with Bob Slapkoff (percussionist, Montreal Symphony Orchestra). Jim has just finished his final year of the Jazz Performance program at McGill University's Faculty of Music.

During his time at McGill University, Jim studied with Dave Laing and played for three consecutive years in the McGill Jazz Orchestra I (directed by Gordon Foote), the Denny Christianson Big Band, and Altsys Jazz Orchestra (directed by Bill Mahar and Jennifer Bell). While performing with Altsys, he was fortunate enough to appear with trumpet great Tim Hagans, pianist/trombonist/composer Hugh Fraser, and with Canadian legend Don Thompson.

Recently nominated for a Felix Award, The Valentino Orchestra, directed by Andrew Homzy, has afforded Jim with the opportunity to work in a recording studio on both sides of the console: engineering and performing. His dual roles are also presented in works ranging from Guido Basso's, Midnight Martini, to the newly released, Daybreak Express: Valentino Meets Ellington, recorded by the Valentino Orchestra.

Within the last year, Jim has been extremely fortunate. He has had the opportunity to play with such musicians as Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano, Ben Monder and the talented Maria Schneider and her orchestra. He has also performed with Canadian greats such as Pat Labarbera, Ranee Lee, Steve Amirault, Francois Bourassa and Ingrid Jensen.

In just a handful of years, Jim has appeared on more than twenty albums and has been recorded on six major film scores. Jim has performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, The Banff Rocky Mountain Festival, and The International Association for Jazz Educators convention and at the prestigious Carnegie Hall.

Over the last several years, Jim has become a well-known fixture on the Montreal music scene.

" An improviser of uncommon promise."(Paul Wells, The National Post.)