Buckle up for a musical JoyRide with thrilling highs, spontaneous departures and unexpected turns! JoyRide is the collaboration of Colin Maier and Mark Camilleri. JoyRide has performed as a duo across Canada and the United States since 2018 having played full recitals, university programs, masterclasses, seminars, fundraisers and children/seniors’ outreach. With Colin on oboe, fiddle, vocals, and musical saw and with Mark on piano.
Their music is best classified as jazz crossover which encompasses many styles including Jazz, Ragtime, Blues, Tango, Romani and Klezmer. JoyRide is a “jazz crossover” duo that weaves their instruments, improvisation and personalities into a multifaceted presentation.
The New York Music Daily says “Ridiculous, virtuosic, outside-the-box fun from JoyRide… It takes a lot of nerve to make music as amusing as JoyRide’s.”
“The audience was enthralled and dizzy with these supermen of music!” (Eden Mills
Music Club audience member)
Personnel:
Colin Maier-oboe
Mark Camilleri-piano
Check out: “Demo 2024” Sample-what you will hear “Air on a Blue String”
Colin Maier (oboe, saw, vocals, from Quartetto Gelato) & Mark Camilleri (pianist and
music director for The Tenors) are “Joyride”, an all-out “music party” where they play
their favorites based in Latin jazz, pop jazz, ragtime, klezmer and bebop, as well as
Celtic, folk and tango. These two players can go out on a limb improvising and
composing on the spot, taking the audience along with them on their musical
adventures.
Colin Maier is an oboist and multi-instrumentalist who is also a dancer, actor, stuntman, singer,
martial artist and Cirque de Soleil acrobat. Originally from Calgary, he has performed with
orchestras across Canada and been seen in shows such as Lord of the Rings, Amadeus, Cats,
A Chorus Line, and Sarah Brightman’s World Tour. During the Vancouver 2010 Vancouver
Winter Olympic Opening Ceremonies, he was featured as the Devil Fiddler in the Flying Blue
Canoe. Since 2009, he has travelled the world, performing as a member of Quartetto Gelato.
www.colinmaier.com
Pianist, composer, arranger and producer Mark Camilleri is the music director for The Tenors
and director/producer of hundreds of theatre and musical productions in Canada. He has
worked with some of show business’s biggest names, such as Il Divo, Celine Dion, Sting, Eric
Clapton, Herbie Hancock, Jim Cuddy and many more, and has produced award-winning CD’s
for Jeff Healey, The Toronto Symphony
