Liam Allan

• Planned and prepared individual music lessons to support student needs in idioms including classical, fiddle, country, jazz, and others.

• Performances in and around Winnipeg including festivals, musical theatre productions, private gigs, and other venues.
• Performed at local establishments such as the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Winnipeg Jazz Festival, Steinbach's Summer in the City, the Asper Jazz Series, and the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre.

Gave private and group lessons to high school students at College Jeanne Sauve and Nelson McIntyre Collegiate.

• Bassist for the Tomson Highway production and language revitilisation project Songs in the Key of Cree: Lynx Lamour Goes to Nashville.
• Toured through communities across northern Manitoba, performing the show as well as giving clinics at local schools/community centres.

• Met weekly with an ensemble of high school students coordinated by professor Jon Gordon at the University of Manitoba.
• Focus on development of aural skills, rhythm, improvisation, theory fundamentals, and knowledge of jazz history.

• Taught private and group lessons/clinics with jazz band students.
• Focus on reading parts, electric bass technique, jazz performance techniques, fundamental theory, and aural skills.

• Gave group lessons to beginner Violin students and coached student ensembles.
• Focus on aural skills, learning repertoire by ear, association of fiddle music with dance and ensemble playing.