Ottawa-based jazz vocalist and songwriter.

Collaborative pianist, teacher, composer. Classical, jazz, contemporary, anything that I enjoy playing.

I have been a pianist since childhood, I took piano lessons up to Grade 10 Royal Conservatory level. My piano was my first purchase when I moved into my first apartment. I still have that piano and had it refurbished a few years ago. My favourite classical composers are Bach and Debussy. For the past few years I have been studying jazz piano. I am the music director of Knox United Church in Edwards, Ontario.

Songs from Montreal, from Weather Permitting (Into The Ground - VOT Records - 1987;  and Code of Life - Amok Records 1989; Weather Permitting were Bruno Steiner, Gary McGirr, Peter Steinmetz and Andrew Steinmetz, ) Good Cookies (Port Bou - 1990; and Bois Bwa Boua - 1992; Good Cookies were Steve Sinclair, Richard McGilly, Ron Woo, Steve Burliuk, Peter Steinmetz and Andrew Steinmetz) and demos (2005 -).

Ostwelve - Indigenous Hiphop out of the Coast Salish Territory now known as New Westminster BC near the Salish Seas. I rap for sovereignty, protection of matriarchy and to clear ways for future generations. Check out my site for more music: ostwelvemusic.com

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Ali Berkok is a pianist, composer and sound designer. Moving into his third decade as a performing pianist, he has produced six albums as a leader for improvising outfit Arkana Music, and his current quartet, Aurochs. His solo piano album, Never Get Lost for Long, features reinvented jazz standards (“Cheek to Cheek,” Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”) and spontaneous extemporized compositions. Film credits include a new score for Battleship Potemkin, and Advances (Thought4Food). Berkok’s sound design and composition credits for theatre include Carol Shields’ 13 Hands (Alumnae), Marina & The Cryptids (Silent Protagonist), What I Call Her (Crows) and Unsafe (Canadian Stage). Chief amongst his research interests is polytemporality, the simultaneous presence of two or more asynchronous rhythmic layers, for creative effects such as destabilizing listeners’ sense of pulse. Berkok holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Toronto.

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