Join Maestro Denis Mastromonaco inside the Screening Room of the Living Arts Centre prior to REFUGE for our second Meet the Maestro pre-concert chat of the season! Maestro Mastromonaco will be joined by Chris McKhool of the 3x JUNO nominated, Billboard chart-topping, Sultans of String.

A Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal recipient for his work creating community through music, bandleader Chris McKhool produces, composes and plays violin with Billboard-charting Sultans of String. He was recently awarded the Dr. Duke Redbird Lifetime Achievement Award and the Merilaïnen Music Awards as Indigenous Ally of the Year, for his work on Walking Through the Fire, a collaborative project with First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists across Turtle Island.

McKhool has recorded and appeared with several jazz, world, folk and pop artists including Béla Fleck, Jesse Cook, the Chieftains, Richard Bona, and Nikki Yanofsky. He has received multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards as Producer of the Year, and won the inaugural Pivot Award from CIMA for creating the Sultans Zoom Room series. Chris also has a rich career performing for young audiences, and has written, directed and produced two Cannes World Film Festival Award winning films: The Refuge Project and Walking Through the Fire.

Meet the Maestro will begin at 7:15pm.